Include crash problem

carlosfockerDecember 13, 2007 at 12:41 PM#

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

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kichikDecember 13, 2007 at 3:19 PM#

What are the crash details?

carlosfockerDecember 13, 2007 at 5:30 PM#

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

kichikDecember 13, 2007 at 7:12 PM#

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

carlosfockerDecember 13, 2007 at 9:04 PM#

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

kichikDecember 14, 2007 at 12:55 PM#

Posting where?

carlosfockerDecember 31, 2007 at 5:27 PM#

Sorry about the long delay. Hopefully this works.

kichikJanuary 1, 2008 at 3:44 PM#

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

.symfix

.reload

kp

To get a stack trace that'd further help debugging.