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Date:	Wed, 17 Nov 2004 11:41:05 -0600
From:	Bobby McNulty <bobbymcn AT bellsouth DOT net>
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To:	Max Bowsher <maxb AT ukf DOT net>
CC:	luke DOT kendall AT cisra DOT canon DOT com DOT au, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: Problem with setup
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Max Bowsher wrote:

> luke DOT kendall AT cisra DOT canon DOT com DOT 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.
>
>
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As for for, 256 MB on Celeron II running XP Pro with Service pack 2.
Running SP2 since it came out.
Problem started November 3rd with a full installation.


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