Archive: Installation of NSIS 20b3 - crashed
Installation of NSIS 20b3 - crashed
Just installed NSIS 20b3, and when I got to the final page, my computer crashed (or shutdown) and rebooted.
This might've made the difference. I had just uninstalled an earlier version of NSIS, along with some other apps without rebooting before installing the new version of NSIS.
If this new installation was supposed to shutdown and reboot your machine, I find it kind of offensive without asking first. :)
Running:
win2k SP2
Did it reboot instantaneously or did it preform a normal reboot where it shuts down all of the applications first?
I'm pretty sure it's not supposed to reboot; it just installed and then offered to display the readme when I ran it. Have you tried it again, now that you have (perforce) rebooted after uninstalling?
Kichik:
Was not a normal reboot. Was playing mp3's with winamp 2.*, the screen went black, the mp3 got "stuck", then it rebooted. Didn't shut down any apps though, that I could tell.
Dark Ryder:
I did end up reinstalling. Kind of. During the initial install, I mistakenly unchecked the "shell extension" option, so I went back through, just to install that bit. And it completed like it was supposed to.
Well, according to your description it doesn't seem like the Reboot command was somehow called. I have never heard of such a bug... Have you ever experienced such problems before? Have you lately installed new drivers or applications but NSIS? Do you have a VIA chipset?
It's not so common that I hear about crashing or instant rebooting NSIS installers, but this is a suggestion:
Let the installer log it's actions to a file in a temporary directory. When the installer finishes correctly, that file is deleted. When it doesn't, that file is still there and can be read for reference.
The file may just be a bunch of computer code instructions, as long as there is a program that can make them readable for humans.
kichik:
I haven't installed new drivers. Although, I did briefly have win2k SP3 installed. I then removed it. But I don't think that would have caused this crash. And no, I haven't experienced this type of crash before with NSIS. I want to think it had to do with a combination of things, and not directly with NSIS though. If I remember correctly I was running CuteFTP Pro 2, which I have had problems before mostly memory issues, Opera 7.03, Winamp 2.80. I think those were the major apps that I had been running. Other than that I don't know what else to tell ya.
Well, lets hope so :)
Please let me know if it happens again.