Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 19:51:32 -0500 From: Phil Bewig Subject: RE: setup.exe: Woe is me! To: "'Phil Bewig'" , "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" Reply-to: "pbewig AT swbell DOT net" Message-id: <01C30C2D.3CFBC360.pbewig@swbell.net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit 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 > > > -- > > > http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ > > > |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu > > > ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com > > > |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski > > > '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! > > > > > > 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 -- 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/