From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1951 invoked by alias); 17 Nov 2004 14:40:44 -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 1581 invoked from network); 17 Nov 2004 14:40:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ppsw-3.csi.cam.ac.uk) (131.111.8.133) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 17 Nov 2004 14:40:34 -0000 Received: from mob22.robinson.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.236.230]:1980 helo=zephyr) by ppsw-3.csi.cam.ac.uk (ppsw.cam.ac.uk [131.111.8.133]:25) with smtp id 1CUQys-0003GZ-Cb (Exim 4.43) (return-path ); Wed, 17 Nov 2004 14:40:22 +0000 Message-ID: <023f01c4ccb3$5d86bca0$e6ec6f83@robinson.cam.ac.uk> From: "Max Bowsher" To: , References: <20041117013157.0D785837CA@pessard.research.canon.com.au> Subject: Re: Problem with setup Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 14:40:00 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Cam-ScannerInfo: http://www.cam.ac.uk/cs/email/scanner/ X-Cam-AntiVirus: No virus found X-Cam-SpamDetails: Not scanned X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2004-11/txt/msg00668.txt.bz2 luke.kendall@cisra.canon.com.au wrote: > On 11 Nov, Bobby McNulty wrote: >> Guys, theres a major problem with setup. >> According to the error I just got, setup is not >> closing any of its files after writing them. >> I finally got past xorg, and got up to update_info. >> I'll rerun setup to get a cygcheck. > > I can confirm this. We took a snapshot of October 26th > (setup-timestamp: 1098732614), and in that version of setup, That number you quoted identifies the version of the setup.ini datafile, not the setup.exe program. > none of > the file handles for any of the temp files of the form (where c:\temp > is your temporary package directory) c:\temp\http%.....\package.tar.bz2 > is ever released. The system starts page faulting and the number of > handles just grows and grows, and eventually setup dies like this: > > Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Error > Runtime Error! > Program \\samba\install\win32\cygwin\setup.exe > This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an > unusual way. Please contact the application's support team for > more information. That's nasty. I wonder why we haven't seen more reports of this. Is there any reason why your machine should be more susceptible to this? (Low memory, any kind of resource limits?) 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/