I have a simple installer that includes a 1.6 VM and some custom rules. It runs fine on Windows XP or Windows 2003. However, on Windows Server 2008, it crashes immediately after the "preparing to install" phase completes with the following:
Problem signature: Problem Event Name: APPCRASH Application Name: install.exe_InstallAnywhere Application Version: 10.0.0.0 Application Timestamp: 4a3263be Fault Module Name: ntdll.dll Fault Module Version: 6.0.6002.18005 Fault Module Timestamp: 49e02d47 Exception Code: c0000008 Exception Offset: 00034ddf OS Version: 6.0.6002.2.2.0.274.10 Locale ID: 1033 Additional Information 1: 23f4 Additional Information 2: 5695a8586c5e049a4934a8e39001c42b Additional Information 3: b0ec Additional Information 4: 7e1f21c4f960ecdabcceb34acaaa3fa3
Does anyone have any idea why this might be happening?
I've stripped things down to an installer with no content, no custom code, and no embedded VM. This fails in the same way. None of the compatibility modes appear to change this behavior.
The issue seems related to an "eval" version of windows 2008 ... works well on other windoz
AFAIK, a debug version of Windows is NOT the same as an eval version. It is simply a full version of Windows but with some debug symbols activated. Its purpose is to help developers get more accurate information in case of crashes.
dherren wrote: Could this same issue affect the eval/beta versions of windows 7? I don't have these available to me or I would test them myself.
Please see my previous post about the difference between debug and eval versions. With Windows 7 I think that the issue is different. As the Windows 7 was not officially available at the time Windows 2009 SP 1 was released I'm not sure if it is supported or not.
