Re: [Wrapper-user] Problems with 3.5.7 under Windows XP

[Karel V. <ka...@ou...>]

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 7:01 AM, Christian Mueller
<chr...@ta...> wrote:
> Karel,
>
> I'm very sorry for the delay. Japan was out on a long weekend and I
> couldn't check my mails on a regular basis.

Don't worry, there's no urgency.

>
> I'm also using a Win XP SP2, but not having the issue. I tried this
> morning various things to things in order to reproduce the situation,
> however no avail. Also installing the Wrapper 3.5.6 and
> starting/stopping/removing with 3.5.7 and vice versa did work as
> expected. So I'm not really sure on what's the cause for this for your
> customer.
> The cmd you and your customer were seeing this is a administrator cmd?
Yes. We are logged in using an Administrator account.

>
> Also, when you were seeing ...well... nothing, did you just get back
> to the prompt instantaneously or after a short time or was it
> blocking? If blocking, what did you do then?

There was no perceivable delay before returning to the command line.

> Was something written into the log file? If yes, could you send me the output?

I don't have the log file anymore.
I haven't managed to reproduce it on my server & I don't have remote
access to the customer's server.
I'll give it another shot (based on my guess that the problem was
related to the old wrapper version (3.3.6))

Regards,
Karel

>
> Best Regards,
> Christian
>
> On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 10:31 PM, Karel Vervaeke <ka...@ou...> wrote:
>> Hm, a customer is having the same problem, using a non-emulated
>> machine running Win XP SP2.
>> They don't have a lingering wrapper.exe (and there is no write lock on
>> the log files). The testwrapper works
>> I'm trying to find more details which could cause the difference, but
>> it may take a while. In the mean time they will use 3.5.6.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Karel
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Karel Vervaeke <ka...@ou...> wrote:
>>> The test wrapper sample commands (-i, -r, -t ... ) seem to work, both
>>> with absolute and with relative paths.
>>>
>>> I found the problem, but can't reproduce it anymore:
>>>
>>> I wanted to delete the log files (to make sure I was looking at the right one),
>>> but I couldn't - they were still in use by a process. Checking the
>>> task manager I found that there actually was a wrapper process
>>> running. After killing that
>>> I could delete the files AND the 3.5.7 wrapper started working again.
>>>
>>> I don't know where that that running wrapper.exe process came from.
>>> It's possible that this was still lingering from before the upgrade
>>> (i.e. a 3.3.6 wrapper.exe), so that would be a border case not worth
>>> further investigation.
>>>
>>> Thanks for the quick reply,
>>> Karel
>>>
>>> On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 4:25 PM, Christian Mueller
>>> <chr...@ta...> wrote:
>>>> Karel,
>>>>
>>>> Thank you for your mail.
>>>>
>>>> I have tested the Wrapper on any supported Windows platform (2K, 2K3, XP,
>>>> Vista, 7, 2K8) prior to the release of 3.5.7 and all tests there went
>>>> successful.
>>>> I'm not sure so what could cause this. Actually the UAC part of the code
>>>> won't get called until the distribution appears to be Vista or later.
>>>>
>>>> When you run wrapper.exe -i ..\conf\wrapper.conf you said you don't get any
>>>> output on your cmd. Can you check the log file if anything was written in
>>>> there?
>>>>
>>>> I haven't tried virtualbox yet, but will also check on this in order to
>>>> narrow it down.
>>>>
>>>> Best Regards,
>>>> Christian
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 11:28 PM, Karel Vervaeke <ka...@ou...>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> We recently upgraded from 3.3.6 to 3.5.7. Things work find under
>>>>> various Linux machines,
>>>>> but on windows XP, calling the wrapper with -i/-r or -t doesn't seem to do
>>>>> anything (there's no output,
>>>>> even with the log levels set to DEBUG in the conf file). When running
>>>>> the 3.5.7 wrapper without arguments it still displays the help
>>>>> information.
>>>>>
>>>>> When using 3.5.6 it works fine. Could this be related to the
>>>>> privilege elevation stuff implemented for Vista & co?
>>>>>
>>>>> My XP install is running on a virtualbox virtual machine; I'm running
>>>>> the wrapper as an administrator. -- Let me know if you need more
>>>>> information (I don't know what else to include).
>>>>> I don't have access to a Vista machine, so I didn't check if it works
>>>>> there.
>>>>>
>>>>> Can anyone confirm this?
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Karel
>>>>>
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