The following bug has been logged online:

Bug reference: 2893
Logged by: Ilya Kogan
Email address: ikogan@cs.ohiou.edu
PostgreSQL version: 8.1.6
Operating system: Windows XP Pro SP-2
Description: Non-standard theme explodes the installer.
Details:

I was trying to install 8.1.6 via the MSI installer and would keep getting
"Could not get system metrics: 8" when trying to get past "Installation
Notes" screen. After reading a bit about GetSystemMetrics, I decided to
switch from my non-standard theme (Some msstyle downloaded from something
that was googled) to Windows Classic.

Surprisingly, the error went away and I was free to finish installing.

I also tried installing 8.2 previously and that went without a hitch.

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To me this sounds like the theme is broken. Especially since we only use it to look for terminal services stuff iirc. it'd be interesting to see if this can be
reproduced on a different non standard
theme.

/Magnus


------- Original message -------
From: Ilya Kogan <ikogan@cs.ohiou.edu>
Sent: 1-14-'07, 20:05

>
> The following bug has been logged online:
>
> Bug reference: 2893
> Logged by: Ilya Kogan
> Email address: ikogan@cs.ohiou.edu
> PostgreSQL version: 8.1.6
> Operating system: Windows XP Pro SP-2
> Description: Non-standard theme explodes the installer.
> Details:
>
> I was trying to install 8.1.6 via the MSI installer and would keep getting
> "Could not get system metrics: 8" when trying to get past "Installation
> Notes" screen. After reading a bit about GetSystemMetrics, I decided to
> switch from my non-standard theme (Some msstyle downloaded from something
> that was googled) to Windows Classic.
>
> Surprisingly, the error went away and I was free to finish installing.
>
> I also tried installing 8.2 previously and that went without a hitch.
>
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On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 07:37:21AM -0500, Ilya Kogan wrote:
> Magnus Hagander wrote:
> > To me this sounds like the theme is broken. Especially since we only use it to look for terminal services stuff iirc. it'd be interesting to see if this can be
> > reproduced on a different non standard
> > theme.
> >
> > /Magnus
> >
> >
> > ------- Original message -------
> > From: Ilya Kogan <ikogan@cs.ohiou.edu>
> > Sent: 1-14-'07, 20:05
> >
> >
> >> The following bug has been logged online:
> >>
> >> Bug reference: 2893
> >> Logged by: Ilya Kogan
> >> Email address: ikogan@cs.ohiou.edu
> >> PostgreSQL version: 8.1.6
> >> Operating system: Windows XP Pro SP-2
> >> Description: Non-standard theme explodes the installer.
> >> Details:
> >>
> >> I was trying to install 8.1.6 via the MSI installer and would keep getting
> >> "Could not get system metrics: 8" when trying to get past "Installation
> >> Notes" screen. After reading a bit about GetSystemMetrics, I decided to
> >> switch from my non-standard theme (Some msstyle downloaded from something
> >> that was googled) to Windows Classic.
> >>
> >> Surprisingly, the error went away and I was free to finish installing.
> >>
> >> I also tried installing 8.2 previously and that went without a hitch.
> >>
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> You are correct, using the first theme that was a pure msstyle that you
> get when searching google for "msstyle",
> http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/30092322/, seemed to not cause the
> problem. It seems odd though that this occurs with 8.1.6 and not 8.2,
> nor does it happen with any other program I have so far run on this
> system. Is that installer really the only thing that uses
> GetSystemMetrics() in that way?

Not really. We don't call GetSystemMetrics() on XP anymore in 8.2, that
codepath only runs on Windows 2000.

//Magnus

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Magnus Hagander wrote:
> To me this sounds like the theme is broken. Especially since we only use it to look for terminal services stuff iirc. it'd be interesting to seeif this can be
> reproduced on a different non standard
> theme.
>
> /Magnus
>
>
> ------- Original message -------
> From: Ilya Kogan <ikogan@cs.ohiou.edu>
> Sent: 1-14-'07, 20:05
>
>
>> The following bug has been logged online:
>>
>> Bug reference: 2893
>> Logged by: Ilya Kogan
>> Email address: ikogan@cs.ohiou.edu
>> PostgreSQL version: 8.1.6
>> Operating system: Windows XP Pro SP-2
>> Description: Non-standard theme explodes the installer.
>> Details:
>>
>> I was trying to install 8.1.6 via the MSI installer and would keep getting
>> "Could not get system metrics: 8" when trying to get past "Installation
>> Notes" screen. After reading a bit about GetSystemMetrics, I decided to
>> switch from my non-standard theme (Some msstyle downloaded from something
>> that was googled) to Windows Classic.
>>
>> Surprisingly, the error went away and I was free to finish installing.
>>
>> I also tried installing 8.2 previously and that went without a hitch.
>>
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>>
You are correct, using the first theme that was a pure msstyle that you
get when searching google for "msstyle",
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/30092322/, seemed to not cause the
problem. It seems odd though that this occurs with 8.1.6 and not 8.2,
nor does it happen with any other program I have so far run on this
system. Is that installer really the only thing that uses
GetSystemMetrics() in that way?

Ilya


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