cargo hangs on Windows 7

[rofrol]

To overcome this I need to:

1. backup rust installation to tmp
2. remove original rust installation
3. copy rust installation from tmp

I use script like this:

mkdir -p tmp && \
cp -r ~/.cargo ~/.rustup tmp/ && \
rm -rf ~/.cargo ~/.rustup && \
cp -r tmp/.cargo ~/ && \
cp -r tmp/.rustup ~/ && \
rm -rf tmp

It does work on Windows 10.

[Diggsey]

Are you able to reproduce this issue - ie. if you uninstall rustup and reinstall, do you have to go through this backup/restore procedure before it will work again?

I don't have a windows 7 machine to test this on, but I think if it was happening to all windows 7 machines we would be getting more reports - do you know of anything else specific to this machine that might be related?

[rofrol]

Yes. I have reproduced it many times. And it hangs windows so much that I have to hard-reset computer.

This is a corporate machine so maybe something with privilieges?

[Diggsey]

it hangs windows so much that I have to hard-reset computer

I'm afraid this is very suggestive of a badly-behaving virus scanner on the corporate machine. Nothing rustup can do, even if it was buggy, should be able to cause that kind of problem. Do you use non-microsoft antivirus software?

[rofrol]

Symantec

[LivingInSyn]

I also have this bug, also with Symantec. Windows 7 enterprise. Anything I can give you to help troubleshoot this

[NMZXYCDRL]

I have this bug too, also with Win 7 + SEP (Symantec Endpoint Protection).

[critch]

I am having this issue with Windows 7 Profesional + SEP as well.

Curious though, I haven't found anything in SEP logs that show it blocking anything. Being a corporate machine, I can't disable it to verify that it is SEP being the problem.

[Geobert]

I have this issue on Win 7 Pro + McAffee, corporate machine

[busyscout]

I also had this problem with Win7 Ultimate. After installation via rustup-init in ~/.cargo directory all files were blocked as if they were downloaded from network ("this file came from another computer and might be blocked to help protect this computer").