RE: setup.exe: Woe is me!

[Phil Bewig <pbewig@swbell.net>]

On Saturday, April 26, 2003 7:47 PM, Phil Bewig [SMTP:pbewig@swbell.net] wrote:
> On Saturday, April 26, 2003 7:28 PM, Phil Bewig [SMTP:pbewig@swbell.net] wrote:
> > On Saturday, April 26, 2003 4:39 PM, Igor Pechtchanski [SMTP:pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu] wrote:
> > > On Sat, 26 Apr 2003, Max Bowsher wrote:
> > > 
> > > > 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.
> > > 
> > > Phil,
> > > 
> > > Did you try the snapshot?..
> > > 	Igor
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> > > 
> > > Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.
> > >   -- Leto II
> > 
> > I downloaded the snapshot of setup.exe version 2.358.  Setup
> > runs, calculating the MD5 checksums and giving me a screen
> > to choose packages.  I did nothing on the chooser screen, just
> > accepting the default installation.  Now I have a progress screen
> > that indicates it is installing ash-20020731-1 /bin/sh.exe; the
> > progress bar is blue all the way across, the total bar is gray all
> > the way across, and the disk bar is blue about one-tenth of the
> > way across, indicating over 900MB of disk space remaining on
> > d:.  The screen has been sitting here unchanged for about 20
> > minutes now, but still responds when I drag the title bar to move
> > the window.  This is exactly the same situation I experienced
> > earlier with the 2.340 version of setup.exe.
> > 
> > I notice that there seems to be some flicker in the setup.exe
> > window, as if it is being redrawn.  The flicker is intermittent,
> > about every 30 seconds, when there are several brief flickers,
> > then the screen is steady until the next set of flickers.  Why?
> > 
> > I assume because the progress bar is blue all the way across
> > that the sh.exe file has been extracted; is that correct?  The
> > file is not present when I look at the drive contents with
> > Explorer.  Can someone tell me exactly what should be
> > happening at this point?
> > 
> > I'll let this keep running and report what happens.
> > 
> > Once again, many thanks to everyone for their kind help.
> > 
> > Phil
> 
> Setup.exe has now been running for about 45 minutes
> with no change.
> 
> I notice that something is consuming much disk space,
> about 65MB of disk space since I cleaned up some
> unneeded files earlier this afternoon, and about 15MB
> in the last 15 minutes.  The only processes currently
> active are device drivers, setup.exe, MS Outlook, and
> MSIE, which has been browsing www.cygwin.com.
> The firewall is active and reports two blocked attempts
> to access my system while setup.exe has been
> running.  Would setup.exe consume disk space at
> that rate?  Why?
> 
> Thanks again,
> 
> Phil

I notice in the task window that a program called
mapisp32 is running.  Find reports that it is located
at c:\windows\system\mapisp32.exe.  I do not recall
having seen mapisp32 in the task list previously.
Can anyone tell me what this program does?  Is
this program somehow related to the setup.exe
problem?

Phil


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