From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23356 invoked by alias); 27 Apr 2003 00:01:49 -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 23336 invoked from network); 27 Apr 2003 00:01:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mta5.snfc21.pbi.net) (206.13.28.241) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 27 Apr 2003 00:01:49 -0000 Received: from candy ([64.218.90.126]) by mta5.snfc21.pbi.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 1.6 (built Oct 18 2002)) with SMTP id <0HDZ008FY6QSO8@mta5.snfc21.pbi.net> for cygwin@cygwin.com; Sat, 26 Apr 2003 17:01:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: by localhost with Microsoft MAPI; Sat, 26 Apr 2003 19:01:34 -0500 Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 08:34:00 -0000 From: Phil Bewig Subject: RE: setup.exe: Woe is me! To: 'Martin Gainty' , "cygwin@cygwin.com" Reply-to: "pbewig@swbell.net" Message-id: <01C30C26.41A48F20.pbewig@swbell.net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003-04/txt/msg02357.txt.bz2 On Saturday, April 26, 2003 5:00 PM, Martin Gainty [SMTP:mgainty@hotmail.com] wrote: > how much memory do you have available? > M > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Max Bowsher" > To: ; > Sent: Saturday, April 26, 2003 3:32 PM > Subject: Re: setup.exe: Woe is me! > > > > 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/ > > > > 96MB RAM. The only processes active when performing the installation, as reported by the ctrl-alt-delete task manager, were device drivers for mouse, scanner, and Palm hotsync, as well as Explorer. -- 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/