Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Originating-IP: [12.254.208.112] X-Originating-Email: [mgainty@hotmail.com] From: "Martin Gainty" To: , References: <01C30C0E.1DF55A40.pbewig@swbell.net> <00ae01c30c3b$5dcdad70$78d96f83@pomello> Subject: Re: setup.exe: Woe is me! Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 16:00:18 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 26 Apr 2003 22:06:25.0453 (UTC) FILETIME=[144CE5D0:01C30C40] 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/ > > -- 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/