carlosfocker
13th December 2007 14:41 UTC

Include crash problem
I am seeing an issue when using the locate macro provided with NSIS in a callback function for a page. When the installer calls the callback function to test the directory's the user inputed, the installer crashes on me. This crash only seems to happen on a windows 2000 server I have. The weird thing is that it works on windows NT 4 and window XP fine.The following code example of the code that causes this problem. It verifies a directory is valid and sets the install directory to that value if valid.

 

page Custom Info checkNTDPSParameters

....More Code
         
Function CheckParameters

     var /GLOBAL SearchResults
 
     ReadINIStr $RootDir "$PLUGINSDIR\Info.ini" "Field 7" "State"

    ${Locate} "$INSTDIR" "/L=D /M=j2sdk-142_05" "SetTrue"                        

    ${If} $SearchResults == "FALSE"

        Messagebox MB_OK "Root Directory is not valid."

        abort

    ${Else}

        StrCpy $INSTDIR $RootDir   ;Set Root Directory path
   
 ${EndIf}

FunctionEnd

Function SetTrue

         StrCpy $SearchResults "TRUE"

FunctionEnd

kichik
13th December 2007 17:19 UTC

What are the crash details?

carlosfocker
13th December 2007 19:30 UTC

It just quits to the desktop, no error. Is there a way to get a stack trace from the program upon crash?

kichik
13th December 2007 21:12 UTC

You can use windbg.exe for that. It sounds like you're experiencing a stack overflow.

carlosfocker
13th December 2007 23:04 UTC

I'm posting the text from the debugger. Not sure how to read the output.

kichik
14th December 2007 14:55 UTC

Posting where?

carlosfocker
31st December 2007 19:27 UTC

Sorry about the long delay. Hopefully this works.

kichik
1st January 2008 17:44 UTC

Debugger says it's an access violation and not a stack overflow which is weird. Use:

.symfix
.reload
kp