Re: Decompression error #8
Tim,
Seems to be a CRC-32 error. What happens if you create a new project and compress only this file into an installer. Does it also result in a Error #8?
Friedrich
Re: Decompression error #8
Tim,
By the way, it would be great if you could send us that specific file.
Thanks,
Friedrich
Re: Decompression error #8
It works fine in an installer by itself. Will it still be at all helpful to have a copy of it? Right now I'm trying a full package with this particular file singled out, moved to the front, and filtered out of the wildcard install files step. Will let you know how it goes.
Re: Decompression error #8
That just moved the error to another file: audio_v.pig, which would precede avatarstatic.pig if I hadn't pulled avatarstatic to the front.
It looks like I'm hitting some kind of cumulative size limit. But all the totals I've checked come to weird totals, often smack between 2^29 and 2^30. I would not be surprised to see something nearer to a common bit boundary like 2^32. The numbers I am seeing just don't shout "here I am, I'm the problem."
I'm going to try fiddling with the volume size and the way we collect files to be packed and see if that makes any difference.
Re: Decompression error #8
With 100mb volumes, it failed even earlier, on audio_g.pig.
With 10mb volumes, it fails on the first large file.
Looks like the commonality in all these cases is the switch from PotBS-Install.exe to PotBS-Install.001
However, with 1024mb volumes, it installed successfully. I guess the workaround is to switch back to a monolithic installer that's too big for Windows to find the application icon.
Re: Decompression error #8
Tim,
Thank you for the information.
That means it is not a compression problem per se (which is good news), but seems to be a disk-spanning issue. Item in review.
SetupBuilder 6.5 is code complete and we'll work on this next week.
Thanks again,
Friedrich
Re: Decompression error #8
Tim,
We have created 14 multiple-volume test installations (with 100mb, 50mb, and 10mb volumes). It always worked fine here on our test machines.
Would it be possible for you to send us your script and make the first files available that get into your .exe and the first .001 volume?
Thanks,
Friedrich
Re: Decompression error #8
Sorry for not responding to this earlier; I don't think I received a notice that you had responded, and the monolithic workaround fixed our problem well enough. I will gather those files together for you next time I have a chance. I'm pretty slammed atm.
I came back to this thread because I have a couple users reporting a similar error (decompression #8) with our small, non-disk bootstrap installer. This installer contains five files and compresses to a 13.6MB exe, so it's definitely not a spanning issue in this case. I've told them to try re-downloading but I'm hoping you might have some insight into why this might happen.
Re: Decompression error #8
Tim,
No problem at all.
BTW, I would suggest to enable the "Enable Installer Integrity Check". This can detect CRC errors (transmission errors, etc.) before the installer executes. You can use this feature if your installer is a single-file setup.exe.
Friedrich