wine debug log

[din99]

i'm trying to run a private app with wine 1.3.22 on ubuntu natty i386.
While it begins to load, a new dialog box is opened named "wine debug" and a popup warn: sorry wine have met a fatal error (or so). Then closing this popup, all the usefull debug comments light up inside the debug dialog box.

The problems are:
- only the latest debug lines can be seen as it cant be scrolled back
- and worst, this seems completly lost as i cant find these info logged.

Seems to be a wine bug: it should automatically drive its logs by default.

[Frédéric Delanoy]

On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 09:52, din99 <[email protected]> wrote:

i'm trying to run a private app with wine 1.3.22 on ubuntu natty i386.
While it begins to load, a new dialog box is opened named "wine debug" and a popup warn: sorry wine have met a fatal error (or so). Then closing this popup, all the usefull debug comments light up inside the debug dialog box.

The problems are:
- only the latest debug lines can be seen as it cant be scrolled back
- and worst, this seems completly lost as i cant find these info logged.

Seems to be a wine bug: it should automatically drive its logs by default.

It's not a bug. See FAQ for how to obtain a log

[din99]

Sorry but an app not logging its garbage automatically is named a BUG, period.

note: i know how to get a log via the terminal

[Frédéric Delanoy]

On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 12:00, din99 <[email protected]> wrote:

Sorry but an app not logging its garbage automatically is named a BUG, period.

note: i know how to get a log via the terminal

If you know how to use a terminal, you know how to use redirections to
save the standard output to a file.
Most apps don't log automatically unless told so explicitely.

[jjmckenzie]

On 6/19/11 12:52 AM, din99 wrote:

i'm trying to run a private app with wine 1.3.22 on ubuntu natty i386.
While it begins to load, a new dialog box is opened named "wine debug" and a popup warn: sorry wine have met a fatal error (or so). Then closing this popup, all the usefull debug comments light up inside the debug dialog box.

The problems are:
- only the latest debug lines can be seen as it cant be scrolled back
- and worst, this seems completly lost as i cant find these info logged.

This is NOT a Wine Bug. You are seeing a Wine debug popup dialog.

Seems to be a wine bug: it should automatically drive its logs by default.

No, it should not and will not for now. Dr. Watson functionality has
not been built for Wine. Thus we have to externally generate logs. See
http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#get_log for the process on how to do this.

The question is are you trying to debug your application so it works
with Wine, or are you trying to debug Wine at this point....

James McKenzie

[jjmckenzie]

On 6/19/11 3:00 AM, din99 wrote:

Sorry but an app not logging its garbage automatically is named a BUG, period.

Then the application developers are going to have to fix this. This is
NOT a WINE BUG, period. Most developers are lazily relying on Windows
functionality that may or may not work properly. I know of at least two
programs that don't generate Windows logging files as the developers
don't want their application information 'filtered' by Microsoft. They
generate external logging files that they request WHEN you log an
incident/issue with them.

note: i know how to get a log via the terminal

What does it say? If it is more than one screen, put it on a site like
pastebin.com and provide the URL here.

James McKenzie