• sadicq
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Topic: SOLVED BUG #69: "Files without extension crash"

First of all, I wanna say hi to everybody on this forum because I'm new here big_smile
but let's move on to the subject of this post:
Although I know 3rd party driver packs are not officially supported, I'd like to share with you a picture of an error I got
The picture can be found at http://img480.imageshack.us/my.php?imag … led4um.jpg .
What I did: place all official driverpacks in their folder.
Place all 3rd party driverpacks in their pack (after renaming them to suit the new rules), so the modem pack becomes DP_Modem_wnt5_x86-32_184.
Select method 1 to install and slipstream ... after I while the error pops up and when I click OK the program closes (but now I know it's written in autoit because I did not notice this before).
My log file can be found here: http://rapidshare.de/files/22263940/DPs_BASE.log.html .
Best regards!

Last edited by Bâshrat the Sneaky (2006-06-10 05:22:05)

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Re: SOLVED BUG #69: "Files without extension crash"

That's an error in the file compression code, apparently. I've tested that thoroughly though :s. This implies that you're using method 1, so if you want to get it running immediately, use method 2.

Could you please post the filenames of all 3rd party DriverPacks you're using? Thanks.

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Re: SOLVED BUG #69: "Files without extension crash"

Official:

DP_Chipset_wnt5_x86-32_605.7z
DP_CPU_wnt5_x86-32_605.7z
DP_Graphics_A_wnt5_x86-32_606.7z
DP_Graphics_B_wnt5_x86-32_603.7z
DP_Graphics_C_wnt5_x86-32_603.7z
DP_LAN_wnt5_x86-32_6051.7z
DP_MassStorage_wnt5_x86-32_6031.7z
DP_Sound_A_wnt5_x86-32_606.7z
DP_Sound_B_wnt5_x86-32_603.7z
DP_WLAN_wnt5_x86-32_605.7z

3rd party

DP_Additions_wnt5_x86-32_13.7z
DP_Broadband_wnt5_x86-32_133.7z
DP_Epson_Print_wnt5_x86-32_1.7z
DP_HID_wnt5_x86-32_11.7z
DP_Misc_wnt5_x86-32_13.7z
DP_Modem_wnt5_x86-32_184.7z
DP_Monitor_wnt5_x86-32_171.7z
DP_Printers_wnt5_x86-32_603.7z
DP_Scanner_wnt5_x86-32_1.7z
DP_TV_wnt5_x86-32_181.7z
DP_USB_wnt5_x86-32_12.7z
DP_VMware_wnt5_x86-32_11.7z

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Re: SOLVED BUG #69: "Files without extension crash"

@Bâshrat the Sneaky, I don't know if this is useful information to you or not, but I believe the DP Modem contains files that appear as though they're cabbed (ex: ending in .dl_), but it is not cab compression.  I'm guessing it's an InstallShield cab or something like that.

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Re: SOLVED BUG #69: "Files without extension crash"

Well they should be expanded then, or renamed to .dll! Maybe that's the cause...

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Re: SOLVED BUG #69: "Files without extension crash"

The problem is not appearing when it is unzipping the file, but when it starts to recab it.
Note that the last line of the log is
2006-06-05 22:54:14 : <SLIP> Started CAB compressing 3rd party DriverPack DP_Modem_wnt5_x86-32_184.7z.
I decompressed the original file and it has no .DL_ files.

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Re: SOLVED BUG #69: "Files without extension crash"

Bâshrat the Sneaky, do you think you can send me the little piece of code that handles the output file extension?
The portion where $f_out_ext is declared or used.
I think there might be a slight problem in the source code of the DP Base.
If you can't do that, do you think you can assign a default extension, like .lol for each file type (just before you write to the output file)? I could surely manage to repair/mod a pack if I had at least an output file.

Last edited by sadicq (2006-06-07 00:13:47)

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Re: SOLVED BUG #69: "Files without extension crash"

Well, sorry for double posting, but I have to bump this: an idea hit me today when I was about to remove the modem pack from my setup - the files without extension are not handled corectly. I consider myself stupid now because it was logic to be that, nothing else being broke in the pack.

So here it is the bug: DB_base does not handle files without extension. I hope you'll fix it in the next release, but anyway thanks for looking over this. At least now I know why it doesn't work and I can fix the problem manually ...

Last edited by sadicq (2006-06-09 08:36:30)

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Re: SOLVED BUG #69: "Files without extension crash"

Good of you that you submitted it at the bugtracker wink It's fixed in 6.06.1!

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