symbol files downloaded from symbol server don't uncompress

[Andre Vachon [MS]]

Can you mail us some more information about this problem.
We can not repro it.

Thanks,

-Andre

"dwex" <anon...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:3A2A7664-381E-45C9...@microsoft.com...
> WinXP SP1, all hotfixes. VStudio.NET 2003, and WinDbg 6.3.0011.3
>
>
_NT_SYMBOL_PATH=srv*c:\windows\websymbols*http://msdl.microsoft.com/download
/symbols
>
> Symbol files download, but don't uncompress (i.e. stay as foo.pd_).
>
> in WinDbg I get:
>
> 0:000> .reload /f /o msvcrt.dll
> SYMSRV: Using proxy server: http=127.0.0.1:5555
> SYMSRV: msvcrt.pd_ from http://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols: 70719
bytes copied
> SYMSRV: /download/symbols/msvcrt.pdb/3D6DD5921/msvcrt.pd_
> Incorrect function.
> DBGHELP: C:\WINDOWS\system32\msvcrt.pdb - file not found
> DBGHELP: msvcrt.pdb - file not found
> *** ERROR: Symbol file could not be found. Defaulted to export symbols
for C:\WINDOWS\system32\msvcrt.dll -
> DBGHELP: msvcrt - export symbols
>
> If I manually decompress the .pd_ using unpack, it unpacks OK and then
loads OK.
>
> Any clues?
>
> --dwex