Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/04/26/20:51:48
On Saturday, April 26, 2003 7:47 PM, Phil Bewig [SMTP:pbewig AT swbell DOT net] wrote:
> On Saturday, April 26, 2003 7:28 PM, Phil Bewig [SMTP:pbewig AT swbell DOT net] wrote:
> > On Saturday, April 26, 2003 4:39 PM, Igor Pechtchanski [SMTP:pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT 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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> > >
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> >
> > 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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