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[NSIS-Bugs] [ nsis-Bugs-1585087 ] NSIS 2.21 with Modern UI freezes a Win2K computer totally
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From: SourceForge.net <no...@so...> - 2006-10-27 11:37:42
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Bugs item #1585087, was opened at 2006-10-26 15:27 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by kichik You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=373085&aid=1585087&group_id=22049 Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: General Group: None >Status: Closed >Resolution: Works For Me Priority: 5 Private: No Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Assigned to: Amir Szekely (kichik) Summary: NSIS 2.21 with Modern UI freezes a Win2K computer totally Initial Comment: I upgraded to the new NSIS 2.21 installation compiler. I have an installation script that uses Modern UI, after compiling the install.exe installs without any problems under Windows XP, but freezes the whole computer, if it will be installed under Windows 2000 SP4. In former versions, NSIS 2.16 it installed without any problems under Win2k and Windows XP. My question is, what has been added, changed, that compiled installation scripts, that use ModernUI, doesn't work under Win2k anymore ?? Michael Kuelshammer Germany ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Amir Szekely (kichik) Date: 2006-10-27 13:37 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=584402 Just in case, I've installed Windows 2000 SP4 and tested nsis-2.21-setup.exe. There were no crashes or freezes. So it might be Norton after all. It makes sense it'd treat installers differently and try to figure out what's inside them. Let me know what was the solution when you solve this problem. Especially if it's something with NSIS after all. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Date: 2006-10-27 12:42 Message: Logged In: NO That's really funny, another installshield installation exe is also freezing, made from another programmer here in our company. And the compiled scripts exe with nsis 2.16 are also freezing the computer. Yes, now it makes sense, that it really sounds like a driver problem or like a problem with a service or a program that runs in the background, I believe that it could be Symantec Norton Antivirus is causing the problems. I knew that our administrator has upgraded to a newer version. So we must analyze our computers first. Thx for your help, bye, Michael ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Date: 2006-10-27 12:19 Message: Logged In: NO Sorry, there is a history of older setups for nsis, will try to recompile our installations with version 2.16 of nsis. This could last a little bit, so please wait. Our company homepage: www.socon.com , only for information Bye, Michael Kuelshammer ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Date: 2006-10-27 12:16 Message: Logged In: NO Former versions of NSIS have another problem, on american or chinese operating systems on Windows XP we had always a crash of the installation progress crashes in the end. After I have installed the newest NSIS version crashing disappeared. No I have not further analyzed the computer and all the programs that are installed. Our truck computers only have a minimum software installed, only Antivirus, office programs, nothing special. It would be nice, if one could download older versions of nsis. I have made the mistake to delete the older setups of nsis. Event log doesn't give any informations at all. Bye, Michael ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Date: 2006-10-27 12:09 Message: Logged In: NO If you have administrator rights and you are logged on local to the machine, then script installation is working. But our survey technician don't know how to log on the computer with administrator rights, and I have made the installation scripts very easy, we only install once in the office with administrator rights, then the next installations our technicians do only with user rights. Installation with user rights freeze the computer. Installation with administrator rights, and logged on our domain server in the office, it freezes also. But in former version of nsis it was no problem, to install with user rights, or without it. That's the problem. Michael Kuelshammer ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Amir Szekely (kichik) Date: 2006-10-27 12:01 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=584402 Does anything special show in the event log after you reboot? How long have you tried waiting for it to unfreeze? Do all of your company's computers have the same hardware, drivers and software installed? Can you attach a list of running processes, using Hijack This [http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/programs.php#hijackthis]? I have to say it sounds like a hardware or driver problem to me. Completely freezing the computer is not something you should be able to do in user mode. Does it happen with any other programs? What about other installers? Have you tried older versions of NSIS installers, like 1.98 [http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/nsis/nsis198.exe?download]? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Date: 2006-10-27 11:42 Message: Logged In: NO Sorry for opening a new thread, but I went to another computer, looked at the bug tracker and the thread has disappeared, so I thought, that only bug reports from registered user will be listed and someone has deleted my former thread. You can take any of the scripts that were installed with NSIS, for example NSIS\Examples\Modern UI\MultiLanguage.nsi or any other script from the Modern UI folder. We are working on a German operating system. We have Symantec Antivirus 10.1.4.400 installed, but I have also tried to start the compiled scripts, with Symantec Antivirus disabled. We are a surveying company, in all our trucks Win2k computers are installed. In our home offices there are Windows XP computers installed, there isn't any problem, when installing the compiled scripts. No, you can't look in any event log, because if you double click on any compiled nsis script then in that moment Win2k is freezing. You can only do a hardware reset. Ctrl-Alt-Delete and then try to end the process doesn't work anymore. You can't open any explorer window. It is freezing, before any of the installation dialogs appears on the screen. Just when you double click on the installation exe the operating system is freezing. Very strange thing, we tested on several computers on the trucks of our company. Try to find out, if there are other programs in the background, that could be the cause for this problem. Bye, Michael Kuelshammer ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Amir Szekely (kichik) Date: 2006-10-26 15:32 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=584402 Nothing was added that shouldn't work on any version of Windows. Many details are missing from your bug report. Please attach a complete script that can reproduce this problem and include more details about this freeze. Does anything show in the Event Log? What programs are you running in the background? Did you test this on more than on W2K computer? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=373085&aid=1585087&group_id=22049 |