Re: Long FBA delays

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Dean,

I understand that. This is why I said you may want to expose more details about what the custom component(s) is (are).
For instance, how the MCPSetup.inf looks like? What does it install? etc.

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Regards,
KM


"DPM" <dm@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:%23y29NlTfHHA.5052@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
KM,

To clarify: I'm not complaining about the overall FBA process; just this:

8:26:23 AM - [FBASetProgressText] Installing Components...
8:28:32 AM - [FBALaunch] C:\WINDOWS\system32\rundll32.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\setupapi.dll,InstallHinfSection DefaultInstall 128
C:\WINDOWS\inf\MCPSetup.inf (ExitCode: 0x0)

Over two minutes elapses between these two steps, and these no visible reason for it. Once FBA starts processing ([FBALaunch])
everything steps along nicely - it's the 2 minutes between the two entries above that I'm questioning.

Thanks,
Dean

"KM" <konstmor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:%23Yd%23aZTfHHA.4636@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Dean,

2-3 minutes for FBA to install components doesn't sound bad. On a slow/medium-slow hardware I am seeing almost the same numbers.

You can verify what's going on in the system during that time if you look at the SetupApi.log and some other log files under
windows folder.
(it may help if you increase the setup API logging level)

If you claim the delay is due to some custom FBA steps you added, please provide us with more details on what commands you added
and executing during FBA.

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Regards,
KM



Below are the last few lines of a recent FBALOG:

8:25:36 AM - [FBASetProgressText] Replacing System Hives...
8:25:36 AM - [FBASetProgressText] Resetting Setup Flag...
8:25:38 AM - [FBAFlushFilesToDisk] FlushFileBuffers(C:\) succeeded!
8:25:38 AM - [FBADoProperShutdown] Sleeping...
8:25:48 AM - [FBADoProperShutdown] Exiting process...


8:26:23 AM - [FBASetProgressText] Installing Components...

8:28:32 AM - [FBALaunch] C:\WINDOWS\system32\rundll32.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\setupapi.dll,InstallHinfSection DefaultInstall
128 C:\WINDOWS\inf\MCPSetup.inf (ExitCode: 0x0)


8:28:33 AM - [FBALaunch] C:\WINDOWS\mcpcfg.exe a Device Port.Name=COM1 Port.BaudRate=57600 (ExitCode: 0x0)
8:28:34 AM - [FBALaunch] C:\WINDOWS\system32\cscript.exe C:\WINDOWS\i386\rename.vbs (ExitCode: 0x0)
8:28:39 AM - [FBALaunch] C:\WINDOWS\system32\rundll32.exe printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /if /b "Okidata ML 320-IBM" /f
C:\WINDOWS\inf\ntprint.inf /r lpt1: /m "Okidata ML 320-IBM" (ExitCode: 0x0)
8:28:42 AM - [FBALaunch] C:\WINDOWS\system32\rundll32.exe printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /if /b "Panasonic KX-P1180" /f
C:\WINDOWS\inf\ntprint.inf /r lpt1: /m "Panasonic KX-P1180" (ExitCode: 0x0)
8:28:42 AM - [FBASetProgressText] Resetting Setup Flag...

This image loads and runs correctly, but notice the timestamps in the highlighted section above; why does FBA delay over 2
minutes between these steps? There is no discernable activity going on during this delay - nothing happening on the screen, no
disk activity.

Can this delay be removed or shortened? On repeated builds this wastes a lot of time.

I should add that all events after the "Installing Components... " step are the results of my adding "FBA Generic Command"
resources to custom components.

Thanks,

Dean






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