Re: setup.exe: Woe is me!

["Max Bowsher" <maxb@ukf.net>]

Phil Bewig wrote:
> Setup version 2.340.2.5, downloaded earlier today.
>
> On one occasion I left it hanging for several hours.  For a while
> it would still respond to system messages, for instance I could
> drag the title bar to move the window to a different part of the
> screen.  Then it stopped doing even that, and the task window
> sait "not responding."  I was previously aware of the "long
> minute" thread, having searched the mailing list, but not of the
> "rush job" thread.
>
> Since posting I have made another attempt, getting farther.  I
> was able to select packages on the chooser screen, and
> setup.exe began installing sh.exe.  I let it work for over an
> hour, with no other programs running (other than the normal
> background processes).  When I came back to my machine,
> setup.exe responded to an attempt to drag the title bar.  But
> then I could do nothing else with the machine.  Even trying
> to load solitaire gave me the message "insufficient memory;
> try unloading other programs."  So obviously something was
> going on with setup.exe consuming memory.  There was no
> disk thrashing.  I waited another fifteen minutes then killed
> setup.exe.
>
> I assume that what setup.exe is doing at this point is
> extracting sh.exe from the ash-20020731-1.tar.bz2 archive.
> Is that correct?  How does the extract process work?  What
> program does the extraction?  Setup.exe?  Or something
> else?  And why isn't there a setup log somewhere?

Yes, correct. Setup does the extraction itself - no external programs.
There's no log, because setup buffers the log entries and only writes them
to disc when it exits.

This is a hard problem. I'd be really interested in some of the info you
could get from gdb - but since setup isn't working, you can't install gdb!
Ouch.

Max.



--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/