Fallen Earth Installer Will Not Complete Update

[kontuz]

Running with:
wine version: wine-1.3.26
Gentoo Linux 2.6.39 x86_64 AMD

I followed the instructions on the Fallen Earth AppDB entry, including installing winhttp.dll through winetricks.
(Fallen Earth Mac/Wine Beta Client FAQ has info on getting the client, trial accounts are available.)

After entering account info the program downloads a base image of the game data (about 4GB) that brings the game system to version 1.9. Then it starts patching up to the latest version, 1.9.2. The program however never completes correctly, sometimes hanging indefinitely, sometimes closing down after throwing out an exception.

I'm hoping I can get some help to isolate the problem. I'm not sure if I should investigate it further or submit it as a bug with the info I already have.

I saved a relay log of about 1.5GB, and I have several dump files along the lines of:
FEUpdater-3.21-MiniDump_2-EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION-0x7EF740C0-2011.08.18-21.54.04.dmp

The console output shows a few errors early:
0029:err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {591209c7-767b-42b2-9fba-44ee4615f2c7} not registered
0029:err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {591209c7-767b-42b2-9fba-44ee4615f2c7} not registered
0029:err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {591209c7-767b-42b2-9fba-44ee4615f2c7} could be created for context 0x3

And one much later:
0029:err:ntdll:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection section 0x1248630 "?" wait timed out in thread 0029, blocked by 0043, retrying (60 sec)

All help appreciated!

[dimesio]

(Fallen Earth Mac/Wine Beta Client FAQ has info on getting the client, trial accounts are available.)

According to that FAQ, the client you are using is meant for Macs, not Linux, and uses Wineskin. Third party wrappers such as Wineskin are not supported here. Report the problem to Fallen Earth and/or Wineskin.

[kontuz]

According to that FAQ, the client you are using is meant for Macs, not Linux, and uses Wineskin. Third party wrappers such as Wineskin are not supported here. Report the problem to Fallen Earth and/or Wineskin.

I used the client called out in the AppDB for FE. I have reported the problem to Fallen Earth already.

I'll see if my luck is any better using the native windows client.

Thanks.

[dimesio]

I used the client called out in the AppDB for FE. I have reported the problem to Fallen Earth already.

I'm not convinced this version should even have an entry in the AppDB, but for now I've simply revised the description and added a warning to make it clear that it is not supported here.

[kontuz]

I made a new prefix since apparently there's no good way to selectively undo changes made through winetricks.

I downloaded and ran the FE native windows installer, FallenEarth.msi, which seemed to work. FEUpdater.exe however fails very soon after launch, before it displays its own window on the "desktop."

winedbg prints out:
Unhandled exception: page fault on read access to 0x00000000 in 32-bit code (0x7dc50e0a).

the backtrace shows:
=>0 0x7dc50e0a in ieframe (+0x20e0a) (0x0034e5f8)
1 0x7dc50eec in ieframe (+0x20eeb) (0x0034e638)
2 0x7dc51b86 in ieframe (+0x21b85) (0x0034e6a8)
3 0x004147ed in feupdater (+0x147ec) (0x01123aa0)
4 0x576e6d67 (0x004bb804)
5 0x00452420 in feupdater (+0x5241f) (0x00416140)
6 0x00000088 (0xe8f18b56)

some of the trace output before the crash:
0029:fixme:ole:TLB_ReadTypeLib Header type magic 0x00905a4d not supported.
0029:err:ole:TLB_ReadTypeLib Loading of typelib L"Y:\\fe\\FEUpdater.exe" failed with error 0
0029:fixme:ieframe:OleObject_Advise (0x13e2b8)->(0x1140654, 0x11406ac)
0029:fixme:ieframe:ViewObject_SetAdvise (0x13e2b8)->(1 00000000 0x1140654)
0029:fixme:ieframe:ViewObject_Draw (0x13e2b8)->(1 -1 (nil) (nil) (nil) 0x191c 0x11406c4 0x11406c4 (nil) 00000000)

Any suggestions?

[mmorpgplayer]

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[mmorpgplayer]

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