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Re: setup hangs during postinstall


On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> 4) exec (stub) waits for execed program to say "I'm here".
>
I'm sure this is where it hangs.

> So, for a brief time there are two processes attached to the same pinfo.
> The task manager (and maybe ps -W) will tell you the "real" windows
> process that is running.
>
Found it with ps -W.  It still had a DOS style path in the command field
and no PPID, etc. yet.  Tried to attach gdb, but gdb just hung.  Still
digging...  Boy, this is a difficult one to debug!

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