RE: Setup 2.249.2.5 Hangs during "Install from Local Directory"

[jwilkes at parasoft dot com (Jon Wilkes)]

This is a handmade reply to a message posted on Sept 18, 2002

> On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, John Carlyle- Clarke wrote:
>
>> This problem seems to occur when the setup program tries to access a file
for writing for which it does not have permission.
>
> Well, is there a chance you know also the name of the file. And is it
> really a single file or a directory ? Please, describe your problem along
> with any observations you have made, do not miss anything. We do not have
> the ability to read peoples mind, though some people think that we do :))
>
> Btw have you tried a snapshot of setup.exe ?
> http://cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/

I'm having the same problem.  Yes, I tried the only snapshot available
(2.249.2.4), and it showed the same behavior.  Here are the details:

Setup 2.249.2.5 eats memory and hangs during Installation of some files.
I'm simply trying to install the fvwm2 package that downloaded successfully.
It appears some kind of infinite loop occurs during file extraction because
setup appears to hang at "5%" done and in Task Manager the setup.exe process
just keeps growing in memory.

Specifically, this is what setup is unable to extract:
XFree86-bin-4.2.0-2
/usr/X11R6/bin/appres.exe

Additionally, clicking cancel to stop the installation leads to:
'The instruction at "0x00422334" referenced memory at "0x73755c6e".  The
memory could not be "read".'

Clicking cancel on this box to debug and looking at the call stack in VS.NET
reveals the following call stacks:

thread 1: // thread that crashes
  setup.exe!00422334()
  setup.exe!0046b8be()
  setup.exe!0041ea1b()
  setup.exe!0040165a()
  setup.exe!0041ae6b()
  setup.exe!0041ca97()
  setup.exe!0041d796()
  setup.exe!0041dc7c()
  KERNEL32.DLL!_BaseThreadStart@8()  + 0x52

thread 2:
 NTDLL.DLL!_ZwRaiseHardError@24()  + 0xb
  KERNEL32.DLL!_UnhandledExceptionFilter@4()  + 0x19c77
  KERNEL32.DLL!_BaseProcessStart@4()  + 0x4f53

thread 3
 NTDLL.DLL!_NtQueryVirtualMemory@24()  + 0xb
  KERNEL32.DLL!_ExitThread@4()  + 0x75
  KERNEL32.DLL!_BaseAttachComplete@4()  + 0x38
  KERNEL32.DLL!_BaseThreadStart@8()  + 0x52

Any help?

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