[izpack-users] Reposting of question: EOFException?

[gwg]

Hi Fabrice,

Thanks for your reply...

Miraodb wrote:
> Hi glenn,
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>>Hi all,
>>I have recieved no replies to my original question (included below), so
>>I am re-posting it.  If no one can help me with this, either by
>>providing an answer or by telling me how to debug the problem in the
>>IzPack code, then I will regretfully have to abandon IzPack and build my
>>own installer.
> 
> 
> I'm sorry you didn't get any replies but with the holidays it's quite normal
> that it takes longer.
> I was out myself  for 2 weeks, and i know klaus and julien couldn't reply
> either.... sometimes we just gotta be a bit patient. :-)

Yes, I understand about the holidays and I hope you had a pleasant time 
off.  After I posted my question I saw replys being sent to 5 or 6 other 
emails but nothing on mine, so it did kind of look like no one had any 
ideas to share on that particular problem.

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> 
>>Java is able to directly copy all of the files (verified by test code in
>>my application running on the target machine after the install), so the
>>installation disk contents seem to be ok and the underlying Java file
>>operations work correctly.  That would seem to indicate that the problem
>>is in the IzPack code that copies the files.
> 
> 
> Ok i'm not sure i understand everything. Building an application on windows
> and then on linux can be tricky due to some file permissions and so on.
> 
> In your case, i would rather ask you to maybe send us your config files
> (install.xml and every others that you use) so we can have a look.

Your mention of file permissions caused me to do another experiment.  I 
wiped out all of my build directories and did a complete fresh build on 
Windows, and the resulting disk installs without the EOFException. 
Apparently my earlier trials had some left-over files from the builds I 
was doing under Linux which were causing the problem.

Now that I have a way to build the product I won't try to figure out 
what was going on with my screwy dual-boot system.  I just got to 
remember "develop in Linux, clean and build on Windows" and I should be 
fine.

Thanks for the thought that got me past the road block, and thanks again 
for your reply.

Glenn
> 
> Let us know.
> fabrice
> 
> 
>>Please offer any suggestions that come to mind.  Thanks.
>>
>>Glenn
>>
>>gwg wrote:
>>
>>>Hi all,
>>>
>>>Any idea why IzPack would generate the following message during
>>>installation of files?
>>>    Java io.EOFException
>>>This comes up in a popup window with no further explanation.
>>>
>>>The application is being installed on a Windows machine which does not
>>>have a JRE.  I have a Windows JRE bundled with IzPack and the
>>>application on the CD, and use JSmooth to start IzPack using that JRE.
>>>As part of the installation I told IzPack to copy the JRE to the user's
>>>installation directory.  When it does that, everything works fine until
>>>it tries to copy files from \lib\zi (the Zone Information binary files).
>>> Some/most/all (it's hard to tell) of those files get copied, but then
>>>IzPack coughs up the previously mentioned exception and ends the copy
>>>part of the installation.  If I remove the files from \lib\zi and
>>>re-build my installation disk, the copy seems to work correctly (though
>>>the application has some other problems when it runs).  My experiments
>>>indicate that the problem is not caused by a specific file within that
>>>directory because if you leave any of the files it seems to copy them
>>>and then chokes.
>>>
>>>Just to add to the confusion, I had this working fine a month or two
>>>ago, then focused on building the application and just now tried to
>>>create an installation disk, assuming that everything would still work
>>>correctly.  Silly me. :-(
>>>The JRE files have not been touched between then and now.
>>>The one difference that I can think of in the build process is that
>>>previously I was building on Windows and now I am building on Linux
>>>(using the same Windows directories cross-mounted onto Linux on my
>>>dual-boot machine).  I just now tried re-building on Windows, but got
>>>the same result.
>>>
>>>Any suggestions?
>>>
>>>Glenn
>>>
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