Re: Problem with setup

["Max Bowsher" <maxb at ukf dot net>]

luke.kendall@cisra.canon.com.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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