Christopher Weth
2001-Mar-15 12:24 UTC
Entropia distributed computing client won't install
Hi,
Because our institute is planning a distributed-computing project in
cooperation with the Entropia software, and I do not like the idea of
excluding all Linux users from the project, I tried to get the Entropia
software running using a recent version of wine (Wine release 20010305),
which I compiled & installed on a SuSE Linux 6.4 machine (glibc 2.1.3,
kernel 2.2.14) (the entropia software can be obtained without registration
at http://www.entropia.com/join.asp).
Obviously it didn't work (otherwise I probably would not post here).
:-(
When I start up wine, with
wine --winver win95 -managed c:/Entropia2000Setup.exe
I get the following warnings, fixmes and errors:
Warning: could not find wine config [Drive x] entry for current working
directory /net/alamak/home/weth/local/wine/wine-20010305; starting in
windows directory.
fixme:win32:PE_CreateModule Security directory ignored
err:win32:PE_FindExportedFunction module not found for forward
'user32.CharToOemBuffA' used by 'kernel32.dll'
err:win32:fixup_imports No implementation for KERNEL32.dll.11 imported
from C:\windows\system\advapi32.dll, setting to 0xdeadbeef
B
After that, a lot more fixmes about font stuff are appearing.
Finally, the setup program pops up and tells me to wait while the
InstallShied wizard extracts... but it doesn't - neither the progress bar
moves, nor does it do anything on the hard disk. This is independent of
the DLLs I use (I tried both the builtin and the ones from win95).
All I can do in this state is hit the Cancel button to end the program.
I ran the program again with --debugmsg +relay, as suggested in the
documentation; the (gzipped) output is available at
http://www.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de/~weth/wine/entropia.debug.gz
(about 100K).
It would be great if someone here could help me with a few hints what else
I could try - I'm a complete newbie to wine.
Cheers,
Chriss
---
It said 'Use Windows 98 or better' so I installed Linux.
>Warning: could not find wine config [Drive x] entry for current working >directory /net/alamak/home/weth/local/wine/wine-20010305; starting in >windows directory. >fixme:win32:PE_CreateModule Security directory ignored >err:win32:PE_FindExportedFunction module not found for forward >'user32.CharToOemBuffA' used by 'kernel32.dll' >err:win32:fixup_imports No implementation for KERNEL32.dll.11 imported >from C:\windows\system\advapi32.dll, setting to 0xdeadbeef >B >Well, I can help you with what these messages me... The first one says "Run wine in a directory I know about" It's basicly complaining because it can't find a Current Working Directory equivalent to give to the windows programs. The other stuff is mostly junk to help people make wine better... as you learn how to use wine more, you'll learn to ignore most of them. The "err" on the KERNEL32.DLL is because KERNEL32.DLL is of course, the windows kernel, and to reimplement what programs need out of it in wine is a hefty task... The font stuff? :P Wine does that with every application the first time after a compile. It should then cache the stuff it finds out in ${HOME}/.wine/cachedmetrics.0 or something akin to that. If you ever want to see the pretty stuff again, just delete this file. OH! Just so you know, it also updates this font stuff if you install new fonts on your system. (Is personally still kinda mad that wine was crashing on this part when he had the windows fonts installed, but he doesn't know where the problem is. With wine, with xfs, or... most likely... with the windows fonts.) Daniel "Krach" Foesch --------------------- "I'm all in favor of regulations dictating a standard placement of directions on frozen foods" -Lyle McCracken
Christopher Weth <zxmsj04@jura.uni-tuebingen.de> wrote:> Hi,> Because our institute is planning a distributed-computing project in > cooperation with the Entropia software, and I do not like the idea of > excluding all Linux users from the project, I tried to get the Entropia > software running using a recent version of wine (Wine release 20010305), > which I compiled & installed on a SuSE Linux 6.4 machine (glibc 2.1.3, > kernel 2.2.14) (the entropia software can be obtained without registration > at http://www.entropia.com/join.asp).> Obviously it didn't work (otherwise I probably would not post here). > :-(> When I start up wine, with> wine --winver win95 -managed c:/Entropia2000Setup.exe> I get the following warnings, fixmes and errors:> Warning: could not find wine config [Drive x] entry for current working > directory /net/alamak/home/weth/local/wine/wine-20010305; starting in > windows directory. > fixme:win32:PE_CreateModule Security directory ignored > err:win32:PE_FindExportedFunction module not found for forward > 'user32.CharToOemBuffA' used by 'kernel32.dll' > err:win32:fixup_imports No implementation for KERNEL32.dll.11 imported > from C:\windows\system\advapi32.dll, setting to 0xdeadbeef > B> After that, a lot more fixmes about font stuff are appearing. > Finally, the setup program pops up and tells me to wait while the > InstallShied wizard extracts... but it doesn't - neither the progress bar > moves, nor does it do anything on the hard disk. This is independent ofThis sounds awfully much like being yet another victim of the SetWindowLong bug (i.e. the same new InstallShield installer with the progress bar that's stuck). This patch should fix it: 471 Mar 16 Dmitry Timoshko ( 60) Allow exchanging of WS_CHILD and WS_POPUP (much better version of my very old "SetWindowLong" patch, it seems) Andreas Mohr