Wine failure logs

nadrach · Post by **nadrach** » Wed May 07, 2008 3:17 am

I'm experimenting with Wine under Kubuntu Hardy Heron, on a former Vista laptop (boy, does it run noticeably faster on Linux). The deal is that my son wants to move to Linux on his desktop, but still have access to particular games that he plays. The laptop is the testbed. Before trying to install any of the games, I tried out three applications that I find useful, Orbitron, Country Codes and IrfanView. Orbitron was no problem, apart from occasionally losing window focus, especially during update operations, but this is fixed by a tap on the escape key. Both Country Codes (from Saber Naeemi) and IrfanView fail to install.

Are there any install logs that would show why the installs failed? If so, where can I find them?

Cheers,

Andrew Morris
www.amsor.org

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Wed May 07, 2008 3:31 am

On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 3:17 AM, nadrach <[email protected]> wrote:

I'm experimenting with Wine under Kubuntu Hardy Heron, on a former Vista laptop (boy, does it run noticeably faster on Linux). The deal is that my son wants to move to Linux on his desktop, but still have access to particular games that he plays. The laptop is the testbed. Before trying to install any of the games, I tried out three applications that I find useful, Orbitron, Country Codes and IrfanView. Orbitron was no problem, apart from occasionally losing window focus, especially during update operations, but this is fixed by a tap on the escape key. Both Country Codes (from Saber Naeemi) and IrfanView fail to install.

Are there any install logs that would show why the installs failed? If so, where can I find them?

Cheers,

Andrew Morris
www.amsor.org

Terminal output would be useful.

nadrach · Post by **nadrach** » Wed May 07, 2008 3:47 am

No output available. Both applications run a graphical install, but the installers never come up. A GUI slot opens for the executable, followed by one for Wine, Wine starts running the install executable, then shuts down without any display after about 30 seconds, followed by the initialising Linux GUI slot about 15 seconds later. Since I have no screen output to read, I have no idea why Wine is failing to run the installations. Thats why I asked about install logs.

Andrew Morris
www.amsor.org

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Wed May 07, 2008 4:02 am

On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 4:01 AM, Austin English <[email protected]> wrote:

On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 3:47 AM, nadrach <[email protected]> wrote:
No output available. Both applications run a graphical install, but the installers never come up. A GUI slot opens for the executable, followed by one for Wine, Wine starts running the install executable, then shuts down without any display after about 30 seconds, followed by the initialising Linux GUI slot about 15 seconds later. Since I have no screen output to read, I have no idea why Wine is failing to run the installations. Thats why I asked about install logs.

Andrew Morris
www.amsor.org

Run it from terminal, not from your file manager/window manager.

Or do you mean there's no terminal output AT ALL? If so, try running
with +relay...

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Wed May 07, 2008 4:22 am

On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 3:47 AM, nadrach <[email protected]> wrote:

No output available. Both applications run a graphical install, but the installers never come up. A GUI slot opens for the executable, followed by one for Wine, Wine starts running the install executable, then shuts down without any display after about 30 seconds, followed by the initialising Linux GUI slot about 15 seconds later. Since I have no screen output to read, I have no idea why Wine is failing to run the installations. Thats why I asked about install logs.

Andrew Morris
www.amsor.org

Run it from terminal, not from your file manager/window manager.

nadrach · Post by **nadrach** » Wed May 07, 2008 5:01 am

First problem was the PageZero security fix in Hardy Heron. Having eliminated that, I have the following failure with IrfanView (which apparently says it should work with Wine, in its FAQ):

err:module:import_dll Library MFC42.DLL (which is needed by L"Z:[...]\\iview410_setup.exe") not found
err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L"Z:[...]\\iview410_setup.exe" failed, status c0000135

and with Country Codes I get an install failure:

C:\Program Files\CountryCodes\ARINMgr.dll
Unable to register the DLL/OCX: LoadLIbrary failed; code 126.
Module not found.

Any pointers greatly appreciated.

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Wed May 07, 2008 5:37 am

On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 5:01 AM, nadrach <[email protected]> wrote:

First problem was the PageZero security fix in Hardy Heron. Having eliminated that, I have the following failure with IrfanView (which apparently says it should work with Wine, in its FAQ):

err:module:import_dll Library MFC42.DLL (which is needed by L"Z:[...]\\iview410_setup.exe") not found
err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L"Z:[...]\\iview410_setup.exe" failed, status c0000135

$ wget kegel.com/wine/winetricks
$ sh winetricks vcrun6

nadrach · Post by **nadrach** » Wed May 07, 2008 6:45 am

IrfanView installed and running, thank you!

Any ideas on Country Codes (http://www.izoxzone.com/)?

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Wed May 07, 2008 7:32 am

On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 6:45 AM, nadrach <[email protected]> wrote:

IrfanView installed and running, thank you!

Any ideas on Country Codes (http://www.izoxzone.com/)?

Sounds like it may be trying to run a device driver, which won't work.
Try running in nt40/win31 mode.

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Wed May 07, 2008 7:39 am

On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 6:45 AM, nadrach <[email protected]> wrote:

IrfanView installed and running, thank you!

Any ideas on Country Codes (http://www.izoxzone.com/)?

err, misread that. does C:\Program Files\CountryCodes\ARINMgr.dll
exist? try running regsvr32 on it.

nadrach · Post by **nadrach** » Wed May 07, 2008 8:07 am

We may be getting somewhere ... now I am getting a terminal message:

err:module:import_dll Library MSVBVM60.DLL (which is needed by L"C:\\Program Files\\CountryCodes\\ARINIMgr.dll") not found

when the "unable to register ARINIMgr.dll" screen appears. Is there a winetricks for this DLL file?

Dan Kegel · Post by **Dan Kegel** » Wed May 07, 2008 9:03 am

On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 6:07 AM, nadrach <[email protected]> wrote:

err:module:import_dll Library MSVBVM60.DLL (which is needed by L"C:\\Program Files\\CountryCodes\\ARINIMgr.dll") not found

when the "unable to register ARINIMgr.dll" screen appears. Is there a winetricks for this DLL file?

Yes:
sh winetricks vbrun60

I really should add common dll names as synonym verbs in winetricks...

nadrach · Post by **nadrach** » Thu May 08, 2008 2:08 pm

Yup, fixed that. Thank you very much.

Now tell me ... is there a user guide for winetricks?

Cheers,

Andrew Morris

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Thu May 08, 2008 2:13 pm

nadrach wrote:Yup, fixed that. Thank you very much.

Now tell me ... is there a user guide for winetricks?

http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks

Tlarhices · Post by **Tlarhices** » Thu May 08, 2008 7:48 pm

It might help future users if you added tests and updated installation instructions on the appdb otherwise it will just disappear being lost in the middle of the forum.

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Thu May 08, 2008 8:45 pm

Tlarhices wrote:It might help future users if you added tests and updated installation instructions on the appdb otherwise it will just disappear being lost in the middle of the forum.

You are the user - help yourself - go to appdb and add it there.

Tlarhices · Post by **Tlarhices** » Thu May 08, 2008 8:52 pm

I'm not the user just trying to give some help when I can.
And I don't have much time to install applications that I won't use and fill appdb reports. Just as you I think.
I was just asking someone who did succeed to install them to update the appdb in consequence.

jimmyolsen · Post by **jimmyolsen** » Fri May 09, 2008 5:18 am

nadrach wrote:Yup, fixed that. Thank you very much.

Now tell me ... is there a user guide for winetricks?

Cheers,

Andrew Morris

I would interested to know this also.

thanks,
J.

Dan Kegel · Post by **Dan Kegel** » Fri May 09, 2008 5:24 am

On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 3:18 AM, jimmyolsen <[email protected]> wrote:

Now tell me ... is there a user guide for winetricks?
I would interested to know this also.

As vitamin said, it's at
http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks

nadrach · Post by **nadrach** » Fri May 09, 2008 8:12 am

I have added a comment on the AppDB entry for IrfanView, and will do so on the Orbitron entry shortly, but I have not yet found an entry for Country Codes (and I have yet to find how to add one, or even if I qualify to do so).

Strange as it may seem, despite being a techy and geek of several decades, and more than used to decoding GUI's, I did not find it intuitive that in order to get a full listing of the app's under a category (Platinum, Gold, Silver) it was necessary to click on the category name in a Top 10 list (which did not so much look like a link, rather an underlined heading). Took a while to realise that. Having ploughed through several pages of Platinum, I wondered why there was no obvious search facility to find if a specific app is listed, rather than trundling down an extensive alphabetical list. When I last took a long look at Wine (about 2-3 years ago), I thought that there was a search option on the AppDB ... but I cannot find one now.

It would be very useful.

If there is a listing for Country Codes, could someone please supply a direct link to it; and if not, could an administrator create one, please, and I'll add a post to it.

Cheers,

Andrew Morris
www.amsor.org

Post by **dimesio** » Fri May 09, 2008 9:48 am

nadrach wrote:I have added a comment on the AppDB entry for IrfanView, and will do so on the Orbitron entry shortly, but I have not yet found an entry for Country Codes (and I have yet to find how to add one, or even if I qualify to do so).

Anyone can add entries to the AppDB. From the AppDB home page, click on "Submit Application" under the AppDB menu on the left. It will take you to a login screen, which has a link to create an AppDB account if you don't yet have one.

When I last took a long look at Wine (about 2-3 years ago), I thought that there was a search option on the AppDB ... but I cannot find one now.

Search is also on the left, just above the user menu. You may have to scroll down to see it, depending on the size of your screen.

Dan Kegel · Post by **Dan Kegel** » Fri May 09, 2008 10:14 am

On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 6:12 AM, nadrach <[email protected]> wrote:

Having ploughed through several pages of Platinum, I wondered why there
was no obvious search facility to find if a specific app is listed, rather than
trundling down an extensive alphabetical list.

It's there! Perhaps it's just poorly placed. It's on the left
column, halfway down.

Your feedback is helpful. I hope we can fix both usability problems you
identified soon; I think they are both just simple tweaks to our front
page layout.

nadrach · Post by **nadrach** » Fri May 09, 2008 11:24 am

Yus ... OK ... found it ... a short way below my screen (1280x800) and the immediate area when the AppDB page opens ... and of course if you quick scroll down to see Gold and Silver lists, it zips past ... hey, ho ... that's my excuse for not spotting it (meekly hides behind mug of tea).

Orbitron needs no comments, it loads clean from a GUI install, anyway. I'll try and plough my way through opening a listing on Country Codes ... learning curves can be fun ... honest.

Thanks very much to all of you who have helped in this. All I can say is that. like finding yourself behind a slow learner driver, it helps to remember that you never stop being a newbie at something, however long you have been trundling the path.

Cheers,

Andrew Morris
www.amsor.org