Installation of a particular program freezes

[waumiau]

Hello,
I want to install a program, with the name "Exif-Viewer", version 2.51. Then I start to install it with wine (version 1.6.2) the installer freezes. Here is the logfile output:

fixme:ole:RemUnknown_QueryInterface No interface for iid {00000019-0000-0000-c000-000000000046}
errSHGetFileInfoW pidl is null!

If anyone wants to reproduce the problem - here is the Link to the installer: http://www.amarra.de/download.html

Can anyone tell me please, how to install this program?

[L. Rahyen]

1.6 is very old, so I have tested it in new Wine version, and unfortunatelly there is the same problem. Before the installer hangs, no additional terminal output appears. I added WINEDEBUG=+file, and after the installer hangs I got apperently infinite number of these messages:

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trace:file:GetFileAttributesW L"::{20d04fe0-3aea-1069-a2d8-08002b30309d}\\::"
trace:file:RtlDosPathNameToNtPathName_U (L"::{20d04fe0-3aea-1069-a2d8-08002b30309d}\\::",0x33e3c8,(nil),(nil))
trace:file:RtlGetFullPathName_U (L"::{20d04fe0-3aea-1069-a2d8-08002b30309d}\\::" 520 0x33e158 (nil))
trace:file:wine_nt_to_unix_file_name L"\\{20d04fe0-3aea-1069-a2d8-08002b30309d}\\::" not found in /home/username/.wine.Exif-Viewer/dosdevices/::

So the installer seems to be stuck in infinite loop. I recommend filing a bug. As a workaround, if you have access to Windows machine, you could try to copy already installed application to Wine prefix, but many Windows applications do not work without installer, so this workaround may not help or cause strange issues.