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XP installation problem [message #6486]

Tue, 14 November 2006 05:21

tomasso
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Registered: November 2006
Location: Traverse City, MI, US

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It appears that no matter which version/type of install I choose for XP, they all end up with the same error message:

Unable to write output file(s)

Is there a way to do a trace/logged installation so that I may find out what's causing the problem?

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Re: XP installation problem [message #6493 is a reply to message #6486]

Tue, 14 November 2006 14:17

mirek
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Which U++ version?

What is your XP settings? Do you have permission to write to the requested directory?

Mirek

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Re: XP installation problem [message #6501 is a reply to message #6493]

Wed, 15 November 2006 01:49

Ulti
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do you mean Windows XP?I used U++ in XP several months and tried several versions without any installation problem.

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Re: XP installation problem [message #6503 is a reply to message #6493]

Wed, 15 November 2006 07:51

tomasso
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Location: Traverse City, MI, US

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I tried the following versions of U++ (both the mingw and non-mingw versions for XP):
611-dev2
611-dev1
610-dev4
605
602

As for XP rights, the account is a full admin on the machine.

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Re: XP installation problem [message #6504 is a reply to message #6486]

Wed, 15 November 2006 09:02

forlano
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tomasso wrote on Tue, 14 November 2006 05:21

Hello,

I've never met problem during the installation.
Have you tried with the default installation directory?
Luigi

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Re: XP installation problem [message #6505 is a reply to message #6504]

Wed, 15 November 2006 09:10

tomasso
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Location: Traverse City, MI, US

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yep -- tried to c:\upp and c:\upp-install and all sorts of variations

FWIW, I just tried the 511 build (both mingw and standalone versions) and it installed without any problems

My guess is the newer versions are trying to write over a file not in the install directory that is in use by another application or marked read-only, etc. I'm just not sure how to find this out

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Re: XP installation problem [message #6507 is a reply to message #6505]

Wed, 15 November 2006 10:23

mirek
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This is really weird. There was a change of installer in 605 version - we have changed the compression from bz2 to 7zip.
But you list 602 as problematic as well - that one used bz2 - you can easily see that by the size...

I am not sure whether this can help, but the code responsible for the problem looks like this:

			String fn = AppendFileName(outdir, f->Name);
			FileAppend f(fn);
			f.Put(outBuffer + offset, outSizeProcessed);
			if(f.IsError())
				Error("Unable to write output file(s)");

Mirek

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Re: XP installation problem [message #6508 is a reply to message #6507]

Wed, 15 November 2006 10:24

mirek
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BTW, if you completely remove the installation directory first and then run installer:

- is directory itself created?

- if yes, is something written to it?

before stopping on that error...

Mirek

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Re: XP installation problem [message #6547 is a reply to message #6508]

Fri, 17 November 2006 06:34

tomasso
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Registered: November 2006
Location: Traverse City, MI, US

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I ran the install for UPP 605 for Windows (without Mingw); when the error came up, I grabbed a dump of the install directory, attached below.

Attachment: upp_dirlist.txt
(Size: 85.11KB, Downloaded 841 times)

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Re: XP installation problem [message #6549 is a reply to message #6547]

Fri, 17 November 2006 08:30

mirek
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Well, this looks like it stops in the middle of saving files...

Is not it something stupid like low space on HD? (U++ needs about 80MB to install).

Mirek

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Re: XP installation problem [message #6550 is a reply to message #6549]

Fri, 17 November 2006 08:36

mirek
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Hm, another idea, perhaps there is filename with characters non representable in your current regional settings - what are these?

Mirek

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Re: XP installation problem [SOLVED] [message #6747 is a reply to message #6486]

Sun, 26 November 2006 04:25

tomasso
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Registered: November 2006
Location: Traverse City, MI, US

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This is on XP and it's quite strange -- it turns out that McAfee is preventing files with the extension "t" from being created.

So the solution was to temporarily disable McAfee and install U++.

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Re: XP installation problem [SOLVED] [message #6749 is a reply to message #6747]

Sun, 26 November 2006 07:33

mirek
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Glad to hear we are innocent (this time Smile

Mirek

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