Olympus camera software won't install.

AverageGuy · Post by **AverageGuy** » Wed Jul 14, 2010 6:40 am

I get the following:
wine start Olympus/setup.exe
fixme:exec:SHELL_execute flags ignored: 0x00000100
jwl@blackie:~$ err:ntdll:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection section 0x7bc9fc44 "loader.c: loader_section" wait timed out in thread 001f, blocked by 001e, retrying (60 sec)
err:seh:raise_exception Unhandled exception code c0000194 flags 0 addr 0x7bc3549f

When it starts up I see a small window that is mostly transparent with a progress bar. The bar advances rapidly and very briefly displays a message and becomes opaque. It goes away to fast to see the message, but it doesn't look like an error message, just maybe a "this file was unpacked" sort of message.

After the unhandled exception message, nothing happens. It just sits there. The program is still running but as far as I can tell doing nothing.

I searched for hints RE: the Unhandled exception code" but none of the situations fit as far as I could tell.

Running Ubuntu 8.04 and wine 1.1.38. Same thing happens on my laptop running the latest (as of yesterday) and Ubuntu 9.10.

It works fine in XP however I don't like to have to dual boot. Especially on the laptop which takes forever +1 day. I can't run Xen or VirtualBox either.

Thanks,
Jim.

AverageGuy · Post by **AverageGuy** » Wed Jul 14, 2010 6:41 am

Correction. The program died, apparently as a result of the unhandled exception.

Jim.

Post by **dimesio** » Wed Jul 14, 2010 9:37 am

What does this camera software do? If it's a hardware driver, that won't work in Wine.

AverageGuy · Post by **AverageGuy** » Wed Jul 14, 2010 6:17 pm

dimesio wrote:What does this camera software do? If it's a hardware driver, that won't work in Wine.

I can't say for sure. This is an abbreviated file list: (filelist.txt)

SETUP.ICO
AUTORUN.INF
FILELIST.TXT
SETUP.EXE
MANUAL\ARA.PDF

The rest of the file list consists of additonal PDF files for other languages.

Unless there is a driver embedded in the setup.exe, it doesn't look like it. The program when run communicates with the camera and sets up parameters like the time/date, etc.

There's also yet another photo editing program installed winch includes the pan stitching which I'd like to have. The rest I don't care much about.

Thanks,
Jim.

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Fri Jul 16, 2010 12:49 am

AverageGuy wrote:Running Ubuntu 8.04 and wine 1.1.38.

Too old - upgrade. If all you need is a documentation you can read PDF outside of Wine.

AverageGuy · Post by **AverageGuy** » Fri Jul 16, 2010 6:50 am

vitamin wrote:
AverageGuy wrote:Running Ubuntu 8.04 and wine 1.1.38.
Too old - upgrade. If all you need is a documentation you can read PDF outside of Wine.

As I think I mentioned it doesn't work on 9.10 either using the latest wine available for that level..

It's not just the pdfs, I'd like to have the photo editing software since it has an easy to use stitcher for pans.

Jim.

James_Huk · Post by **James_Huk** » Fri Jul 16, 2010 8:14 am

I think, vitamin meant that your wine is too old, not your system - try upgrading wine.

David Shaw · Post by **David Shaw** » Fri Jul 16, 2010 8:47 am

It's not just the pdfs, I'd like to have the photo editing software since it has an easy to use stitcher for pans.

Jim.

Have you tried using Hugin to stitch your pans together? It's available
in the Universe repository.

David Shaw

AverageGuy · Post by **AverageGuy** » Fri Jul 16, 2010 7:13 pm

David Shaw wrote:
It's not just the pdfs, I'd like to have the photo editing software since it has an easy to use stitcher for pans.

Jim.
Have you tried using Hugin to stitch your pans together? It's available
in the Universe repository.

David Shaw

That's what I use presently with my old camera. It works fine. I had an Olympus before and the software interacts with the camera in such a way you don't have to do anything. Because the camera tags pan image in a certain way, the Olympus software recognizes the set of images as a pan so it's almost a one click solution. If they didn't want so much for a license I'd just install Windows under VirtualBox or Xen and be done with it. But I hate to spend almost as much as the camera on software to make pan pictures easier.

I was hoping someone would address the wine problem rather than giving me options but I guess there isn't a fix. I sure would like to know what about the setup.exe file causes the problem. I had pretty much the same problem with my tax software this year. It's worked in the past so something they did new has caused the problem.

Thanks,
Jim.