Running Battlefield 1942 gives following errors

[beterzelfs]

The installation of Battlefield 1942 and it's patches went seamlessly. Though, when I try to run Battlefield 1942 I get the following error.

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fixme:service:scmdatabase_autostart_services Auto-start service L"SecDrv" failed to start: 2

What does this mean and how can I fix it?

I'm using Wine version 1.5.14 in Ubuntu 12.04

[DanKegel]

fixme's aren't bugs. They might help diagnose an actual bug, though. Is the game misbehaving?

[beterzelfs]

The game doesn't start at all.

What can I do to discover what's going wrong?

[beterzelfs]

After installation a desktop item appeared. When I run the command of that item I get the following in the terminal.

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err:wineboot:pendingRename couldn't get file attributes (2)
fixme:service:scmdatabase_autostart_services Auto-start service L"SecDrv" failed to start: 2
fixme:exec:SHELL_execute flags ignored: 0x00000100
fixme:exec:SHELL_execute flags ignored: 0x00004100

[vitamin]

"SecDrv" service is a Safedisk driver. Make sure you properly installed your game from a CD/DVD. See http://wiki.winehq.org/CopyProtection for some additional information. To me it seems new gcc versions broke Safedisk for good. Not even mentioning Ubuntu...

[beterzelfs]

According to http://wiki.winehq.org/CopyProtection the following versions of gcc do work with wine and copyprotection.

4.5
4.2.x (this isn't certain, and may vary for Safedisc vs Securom)
4.4.x
3.4.x
3.3.x

How do I find out what version of gcc I'm using and what determines what version of gcc I'm using at the moment or what version of gcc I have to use.

[dimesio]

How do I find out what version of gcc I'm using

Open a terminal and type

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gcc --version

[beterzelfs]

Ok. Currently I'm running gcc version 4.6.3

Right now I'm installing gcc version 4.5. Do I have to remove version 4.6.3 or do I have to configure somewhere that 4.6 won't be used for running battlefield?