IIRC there was a change in the message handling Windows 2008 in which I found (after a lots of hours debugging) that sometimes messages are ‘eaten’ away. According to Microsoft this was an optimization where duplicate message where dropped to improve system speed. But there was a bug in there. But since it has been a few years ago (hey it’s 2013 not 2008) I can’t recall the details but the way to fix this was something with implementing your own message pump to handle messages before Windows does..
I hope this helps a bit (although the details are a bit blurry ☺ ) Best regards, Albert van Peppen Senior System Engineer [Insad] Insad Grafisch b.v. Mollevite 28 6931 KG Westervoort The Netherlands . Van: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com] Verzonden: 25 March 2013 23:54 Aan: Windows Installer XML toolset developer mailing list Onderwerp: Re: [WiX-devs] WixStdBA: fix for missing WM_QUIT message on Server 2008 I expect the problem is that ::GetMessage() never gets the ::PostQuitMessage() so it's just hanging around waiting. We need to do the much harder, "Figure out what happned to the quit message that should have exited ::GetMessage()" :( On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 11:56 AM, Bob Arnson <b...@joyofsetup.com<mailto:b...@joyofsetup.com>> wrote: On 25-Mar-13 14:49, Bruce Cran wrote: > On 25/03/2013 18:03, Rob Mensching wrote: >> My favorite way to debug is to start Burn under the debugger using >> Image Execution Option flags. gflags.exe makes it easy to set. For low >> level stuff I often use windbg.exe, but I believe you can hook Visual >> Studio in there too with the jit debugger. > I've already stepped through the code - it shows PostQuitMessage being > called. But I'm not sure what further debugging I can do to determine > why GetMessage isn't returning. You can use Process Explorer to get a dump of the process once it's hung; with OS symbols, it's possible to get an idea of the root problem from where it's stuck under GetMessage. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_mar _______________________________________________ WiX-devs mailing list WiX-devs@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:WiX-devs@lists.sourceforge.net> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-devs
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