From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3987 invoked by alias); 26 Apr 2003 21:32:45 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 3980 invoked from network); 26 Apr 2003 21:32:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO rose.csi.cam.ac.uk) (131.111.8.13) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 26 Apr 2003 21:32:45 -0000 Received: from mob22.robinson.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.217.120] helo=pomello) by rose.csi.cam.ac.uk with smtp (Exim 4.12) id 199XHp-0001UY-00; Sat, 26 Apr 2003 22:32:45 +0100 Message-ID: <00ae01c30c3b$5dcdad70$78d96f83@pomello> From: "Max Bowsher" To: , References: <01C30C0E.1DF55A40.pbewig@swbell.net> Subject: Re: setup.exe: Woe is me! Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 00:47:00 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-SW-Source: 2003-04/txt/msg02346.txt.bz2 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/