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#116000 - 2004-03-12 08:11 AM Unable to execute kix32.exe manually
sgtan Offline
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I have a NT 4 server sp6a and running kixtart script. I am unable to execute kix32.exe manually from any directory eventhough the file is stored in the location. It just hang. Running other executables on the same machine does not have any issue. What could be wrong?
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#116001 - 2004-03-12 09:20 AM Re: Unable to execute kix32.exe manually
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Can you show us how you start KiX32.EXE?

Is this just one workstation? Is it one user?

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#116002 - 2004-03-12 09:31 AM Re: Unable to execute kix32.exe manually
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Hello Kent,

Irregardless of where I run the kix32.exe, it hangs.

I typed kix32.exe and run it manually from C:\ root directory. I also do the same from C:\winnt directory. Both just hang.

This is happening on only one workstation. I log in as a local administrator. Domain administrators have also log to this server and run the script. The script stops at this statement:
@%logonspec%\..\kix32.exe %logonspec%\..\Login.kix

Not sure why kix32 cannot run.

Thanks.
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#116003 - 2004-03-12 09:32 AM Re: Unable to execute kix32.exe manually
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From a machine that does run KiX please start a DOS Console and type the following


KIX32.EXE /?

What does it return?

What OS is the Server, and what OS is it that has issues running the KIX32.EXE file?

Do you have any Windows 95/98/ME Clients or are they all NT/2000/XP?


P.S. Your posting in the other thread was of no real value as the date on that posting was a couple years old. That person has probably long since moved on.
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#116004 - 2004-03-12 09:34 AM Re: Unable to execute kix32.exe manually
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hmmm... that is not a valid environment setting unless you have manually set it on all machines.

It should be more like %LOGONSERVER%

However if they are NT/2000/XP systems they don't need to run from a batch file.

You can just run:

KIX32.EXE LOGIN.KIX
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#116005 - 2004-03-12 09:35 AM Re: Unable to execute kix32.exe manually
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Have you done some basic integrity checks? Disks are in good health, etc.?

It does not sound like you are having problems with the script per se, but rather one workstation.

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#116006 - 2004-03-12 09:44 AM Re: Unable to execute kix32.exe manually
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It returns version 4.11
OS for the server is Windows Server 2003. The OS running the kix32.exe file is NT 4 server sp6a. Yes, we have other clients and servers on different platform 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP. Except for this, script is running fine on all other clients and servers.

Thanks for that update on the posting on old thread. I'm new in the block.

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#116007 - 2004-03-12 09:46 AM Re: Unable to execute kix32.exe manually
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Running this KIX32.EXE LOGIN.KIX gives the same result.
It just return a line with the cursor blinking.
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#116008 - 2004-03-12 09:49 AM Re: Unable to execute kix32.exe manually
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No, I've not done any health check on the system.
But I've tried running other executable file and they're ok. It's only the kix32.exe that is not running.
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#116009 - 2004-03-12 09:59 AM Re: Unable to execute kix32.exe manually
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Okay,

Copy the file KIX32.EXE to the local NT 4.0 SP6 system into a new folder.

Make a new directory C:\SCRIPT and copy KIX32.EXE to this folder all by itself. Then from a DOS Console run it.

C:\SCRIPT\KIX32.EXE /?

What does that return?


Oh... and p.s.
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#116010 - 2004-03-12 10:02 AM Re: Unable to execute kix32.exe manually
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Are you sure you don't have a Get or GetS lurking in your script waiting for input, or a loop which never exists?

There may be an internal conditional which is fired on this machine but not on the machines that the script runs to completion on.

Run the Login.kix script in debug mode, and find out where it hangs.
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#116011 - 2004-03-12 10:02 AM Re: Unable to execute kix32.exe manually
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I've copied this kix32.exe file to another machine and they're running fine as it should.

Kixtart 2001 4.11 (Copyright Ruud van Velsen 2002)
Microsoft Windows (logon) script processor.
etc.

So, this file is not corrupted.
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#116012 - 2004-03-12 10:03 AM Re: Unable to execute kix32.exe manually
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I was getting there

Wanted him to see / verify that KIX32.EXE does run before moving onto script debug.
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#116013 - 2004-03-12 10:04 AM Re: Unable to execute kix32.exe manually
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but did you do it on this one? What do you get?
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#116014 - 2004-03-12 10:06 AM Re: Unable to execute kix32.exe manually
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With or without the login.kix running, the kix32.exe is unable to execute at all. So, it's the kix32.exe running on that machine that is not working at all.
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#116015 - 2004-03-12 10:10 AM Re: Unable to execute kix32.exe manually
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Okay, try downloading this file. Open and extract ONLY the KIX32.EXE file into the C:\SCRIPT folder.

Then attempt to run it. What happens?

http://kixtart.org/bin/distrib/KiX2001_422.zip

Please post EVERYTHING it says or shows ... i.e copy the DOS box of you running it please. Then paste it here so we can see.
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#116016 - 2004-03-12 11:15 AM Re: Unable to execute kix32.exe manually
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Sigh...have difficulty posting an attachment *.bmp? Tks.
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#116017 - 2004-03-12 11:46 AM Re: Unable to execute kix32.exe manually
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This is what is displayed.

C:\>cd script test
C:\script test>kix32.exe
_

That's all. The cursor just stays there. Nothing is executed.
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#116018 - 2004-03-12 12:27 PM Re: Unable to execute kix32.exe manually
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Hmm. How long have you left it? Perhaps it is a network timing issue? Does this machine have dial-up networking or similar configured that the others don't?

If you haven't already, leave it trying to run the executable for a good 10 minutes, just in case the problem is simply something like the network name resolution hanging up somewhere.

Also, have a look for a "kixtart.log" file in your temporary directory which may give some clues.
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#116019 - 2004-03-12 07:21 PM Re: Unable to execute kix32.exe manually
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None the less I'd say something weird is up with just this machine.

Try the switch /? as previously suggested.

KiXtart by default attempts to locate scripts if you don't tell it what to do. Although as stated leaving it for a few minutes should present something.

If this is the ONLY machine doing it, it may not be worth your time trying to fix it. Simply update this machine to 2000/XP and be done with it.

If it were happening to hundreds of machines, that would be a different story.
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