.exe created by a "pp" sticks on startup

levW has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I was using "pp" packer for creating .exe executables for Windows for last 12 years.

Recently, seems like with latest Windows 10/2016 , have cases when my executables would stuck on startup, no message is provided...CPU shows 8%...

The way out is always to delete the last folder in the "%temp%\par-UserName" folder , which my perl executables naturally create..

Need some advice.thanks

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Re: .exe created by a "pp" sticks on startup by soonix (Chancellor) on Jul 11, 2019 at 05:46 UTC
What about entries in the event log? Might be Software Restriction Policies or Applocker. Both can disallow execution of binaries from user writable directories.	[reply]
Re^2: .exe created by a "pp" sticks on startup by levW (Beadle) on Jul 11, 2019 at 06:08 UTC
sure enough, I have started with Event logs - there was nothing there ...	[reply]
Re^3: .exe created by a "pp" sticks on startup by soonix (Chancellor) on Jul 11, 2019 at 07:49 UTC
Sorry I misread the question, thought the processes are aborted. If it is "running"(crawling), maybe an Antivirus could be holding it up?	[reply]
Re^4: .exe created by a "pp" sticks on startup by levW (Beadle) on Jul 11, 2019 at 08:00 UTC
Re: .exe created by a "pp" sticks on startup by marto (Cardinal) on Jul 11, 2019 at 09:01 UTC
Could be a change in OS behaviour in general, if your code and packaging method is unchanged. Have you tried using sysinternals tools to find out what's going on?	[reply]
Re^2: .exe created by a "pp" sticks on startup by levW (Beadle) on Jul 11, 2019 at 09:33 UTC
Thanks, will give it a try.	[reply]
Re: .exe created by a "pp" sticks on startup by Marshall (Canon) on Jul 11, 2019 at 09:15 UTC
The latest version of Win10 is: Windows 10 Threshold, Redstone, YYHx 18362 1903 (May 2019 Update) Windows 10/2016 is a few years out of date.	[reply]
Re^2: .exe created by a "pp" sticks on startup by levW (Beadle) on Jul 11, 2019 at 09:31 UTC
meant actually "Windows 10/Windows 2016 (Server)"...	[reply]
Re: .exe created by a "pp" sticks on startup by swl (Prior) on Jul 11, 2019 at 22:14 UTC
Maybe you could also try more verbose logging when it runs to see how far it gets (although I have not tried it). https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/PAR/lib/PAR/Environment.pod#PAR_GLOBAL_DEBUG You could also try changing the location of the PAR temporary directory, just in case something to do with the main temp folder is the problem. https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/PAR/lib/PAR/Environment.pod#PAR_TEMP	[reply]
Re^2: .exe created by a "pp" sticks on startup by levW (Beadle) on Jul 14, 2019 at 05:41 UTC
Thanks a lot !!! will give it a try.	[reply]
Re^3: .exe created by a "pp" sticks on startup by Anonymous Monk on Jul 15, 2019 at 09:28 UTC
Well? What happened?	[reply]
Re^4: .exe created by a "pp" sticks on startup by levW (Beadle) on Jul 22, 2019 at 11:12 UTC