[izpack-users] Reposting of question: EOFException?

[gwg]

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.

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.

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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