That could very well be the problem. You might want to open an issue up for it on D.O.

http://drupal.org/node/add/project-issue/drupal

It might be a good idea to increase the maximum execution time o the download/extract portion.

Jamie Holly http://www.intoxination.net http://www.hollyit.net

On 1/21/2011 10:36 AM, Austin Einter wrote:

Thanks everybody. I just unzipped the ctools zip file and then enabled. With this I am able to have ctools, panels, views etc. May be unzipping time is more, and eventually times out. Best Regards Austin

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 8:56 PM, Eric de la Chevrotiere <eric@chevrotiere.com mailto:eric@chevrotiere.com> wrote:

I had a similar issue with CTools / views install, the page timed
out and most of my modules were disabled when I came back. After
re-enabling those modules though, everything is working fine now.
My d7 is installed on windows 7, iis 7.5, mysql 5. Sorry I don't
have anymore info, thought it was my own issue but after seeing
Austin's issue it reminded me of mine.

Eric

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 2:40 AM, Austin Einter
<austin.einter@gmail.com <mailto:austin.einter@gmail.com>> wrote:

    Hi All
    I am trying to install CTools 7.x-1.0-alpha2
    <http://drupal.org/node/1016576> in Drupal 7.
    It is not installing.
    One time appache server crashed, one time found error as
    mentioned below.

    ( ! ) Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds
    exceeded in C:\MyWeb\www\necs\modules\system\system.tar.inc on
    line 1297
    Call Stack
    # Time Memory Function Location
    1 0.0283 373600 {main}( ) ..\index.php:0
    2 0.6777 18238944 menu_execute_active_handler( ) ..\index.php:22
    3 0.6848 18454408 call_user_func_array ( ) ..\menu.inc:501
    4 0.6848 18454640 drupal_get_form( ) ..\menu.inc:0
    5 0.6848 18455200 drupal_build_form( ) ..\form.inc:188
    6 0.7084 18515072 drupal_process_form( ) ..\form.inc:350
    7 0.7117 18542928 form_execute_handlers( ) ..\form.inc:830
    8 0.7118 18544952 update_manager_install_form_submit( )
    ..\form.inc:1390
    9 29.2043 19748944 ArchiverTar->listContents( )
    ..\update.manager.inc:642
    10 29.2043 19749064 Archive_Tar->listContent( )
    ..\system.archiver.inc:53
    11 29.2070 19749936 Archive_Tar->_extractList( )
    ..\system.tar.inc:281
    12 30.0021 19899256 Archive_Tar->_readHeader( )
    ..\system.tar.inc:1505
    Kindly let me know, whats going wrong here.
    Regards
    Austin