wine users - Dec 2008 - wine upgrade 1.1.9 broke program

I have a Ubunu 8.04.1 system that has been running a package under wine with no
problems since last June.

A few days ago I ran the software upgrade program and it moved wine from 1.1.7
to 1.1.9 and this package no longer works. When the program starts it needs to
contact a server and that portion fails.

Can someone tell me how to return to the 1.1.7 version of wine. Or alternatively
point me at a fix for this problem?

Here is the upgrade info from /var/log/dpgk.log:

Code:
2008-11-30 15:09:39 upgrade wine 1.1.7~winehq0~ubuntu~8.04-0ubuntu1
1.1.9~winehq0~ubuntu~8.04-0ubuntu1
2008-11-30 15:09:39 status half-configured wine
1.1.7~winehq0~ubuntu~8.04-0ubuntu1
2008-11-30 15:09:39 status unpacked wine 1.1.7~winehq0~ubuntu~8.04-0ubuntu1
2008-11-30 15:09:39 status half-installed wine
1.1.7~winehq0~ubuntu~8.04-0ubuntu1
2008-11-30 15:09:44 status half-installed wine
1.1.7~winehq0~ubuntu~8.04-0ubuntu1
2008-11-30 15:09:48 status unpacked wine 1.1.9~winehq0~ubuntu~8.04-0ubuntu1
2008-11-30 15:09:51 status unpacked wine 1.1.9~winehq0~ubuntu~8.04-0ubuntu1



If I start wine on the command line I capture the problem area that is
preventing proper operation of the program:

Code:
fixme:wininet:InternetAutodial STUB
fixme:winhttp:session_set_option unimplemented option 3
fixme:winhttp:session_set_option unimplemented option 6
fixme:winhttp:session_set_option unimplemented option 5



I think the "wininet:InternetAutodial" stub is OK.
I believe that the problem I hit is with the winhttp code.
At this point the program is attempting to contact a server and perform a
password validation.

This seems to be a step back in functionality with the wine upgrade. Can I
re-install and specify that I want the 1.1.7 version? Otherwise is there a fix
for the code shown above?

On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 8:48 PM, daleoregon <wineforum-user at winehq.org>
wrote:
> I have a Ubunu 8.04.1 system that has been running a package under wine
with no problems since last June.
>
> A few days ago I ran the software upgrade program and it moved wine from
1.1.7 to 1.1.9 and this package no longer works. When the program starts it
needs to contact a server and that portion fails.
>
> Can someone tell me how to return to the 1.1.7 version of wine. Or
alternatively point me at a fix for this problem?
>
> Here is the upgrade info from /var/log/dpgk.log:
>
> Code:
> 2008-11-30 15:09:39 upgrade wine 1.1.7~winehq0~ubuntu~8.04-0ubuntu1
1.1.9~winehq0~ubuntu~8.04-0ubuntu1
> 2008-11-30 15:09:39 status half-configured wine
1.1.7~winehq0~ubuntu~8.04-0ubuntu1
> 2008-11-30 15:09:39 status unpacked wine 1.1.7~winehq0~ubuntu~8.04-0ubuntu1
> 2008-11-30 15:09:39 status half-installed wine
1.1.7~winehq0~ubuntu~8.04-0ubuntu1
> 2008-11-30 15:09:44 status half-installed wine
1.1.7~winehq0~ubuntu~8.04-0ubuntu1
> 2008-11-30 15:09:48 status unpacked wine 1.1.9~winehq0~ubuntu~8.04-0ubuntu1
> 2008-11-30 15:09:51 status unpacked wine 1.1.9~winehq0~ubuntu~8.04-0ubuntu1
>
>
>
> If I start wine on the command line I capture the problem area that is
preventing proper operation of the program:
>
> Code:
> fixme:wininet:InternetAutodial STUB
> fixme:winhttp:session_set_option unimplemented option 3
> fixme:winhttp:session_set_option unimplemented option 6
> fixme:winhttp:session_set_option unimplemented option 5
>
>
>
> I think the "wininet:InternetAutodial" stub is OK.
> I believe that the problem I hit is with the winhttp code.
> At this point the program is attempting to contact a server and perform a
password validation.
>
> This seems to be a step back in functionality with the wine upgrade. Can I
re-install and specify that I want the 1.1.7 version? Otherwise is there a fix
for the code shown above?
>
>
>
>
>
>
Please run a regression test:
http://wiki.winehq.org/RegressionTesting

and file a bug at bugs.winehq.org

-- 
-Austin

And yes - you can order your packet manager to "force" version 1.1.7
of the package.
for example in synaptic: package, force package version (ctrl-e).

Daily_Lama <wineforum-user at winehq.org> at Dec 3, 2008 7:46 AM (MST)
wrote about [Wine]  Re: wine upgrade 1.1.9 broke program
>
>And yes - you can order your packet manager to "force" version
1.1.7 of the package.
>for example in synaptic: package, force package version (ctrl-e).
>
It might be quite possible that Wine version 1.1.7 is not available for the
release.  However, you are correct that synaptic will provide the package at the
release version, if available.

The action that needs to take place, however, is to find out what change between
Wine 1.1.8 and Wine 1.1.9 caused the breakage in the program so that this can be
investigated and corrected.  There were many approved changes (over 100) between
the two development releases.  This is what we call regression testing and some
users are unable or unwilling to do so.

James McKenzie

Is that first line telling me that it was upgrading wine from version 1.1.7 to
version 1.1.9?

Code:
2008-11-30 15:09:39 upgrade wine 1.1.7~winehq0~ubuntu~8.04-0ubuntu1
1.1.9~winehq0~ubuntu~8.04-0ubuntu1

 

If so, how do I get back to version 1.1.7 ?
I used apt-get remove to remove wine then tried to install version 1.1.7 using
the following command:

Code:
sudo apt-get install wine=1.1.7


The error message stated that version 1.1.7 was not found.
Any suggestions to install the previous version?
(Yes, I know that we need some regression testing on this for the latest version
as indicated in previous post but this is a very humble system and I'd
rather get this back to working here and debug on a different system.)

http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/archive/index.html

Thank you for the pointer to archive versions.
I installed 1.1.7 for Ubuntu 8.04 and this enables the program to work once
again.
The three "winhttp:session_set_option" lines are no longer generated
if I launch from terminal window. So there is definitely a regression taking
place in the 1.1.7 to 1.1.9 jump.
I would like to see this fixed in later version so will try and track it down a
bit and get a bug filed as advised in earlier reply.
Thanks for the assistance.

daleoregon <wineforum-user at winehq.org> at Dec 5, 2008 9:42 AM (MST)
wrote about [Wine]  Re: wine upgrade 1.1.9 broke program
>
>Thank you for the pointer to archive versions.
>I installed 1.1.7 for Ubuntu 8.04 and this enables the program to work once
again.
>The three "winhttp:session_set_option" lines are no longer
generated if I launch from terminal
>window. So there is definitely a regression taking place in the 1.1.7 to
1.1.9 jump.
Can you try using Wine 1.1.8 to narrow the location of the errors?
>I would like to see this fixed in later version so will try and track it
down a bit and get a bug
>filed as advised in earlier reply.
It would be best if you attempt to run a regression test, if you have the
resources and time.  There is a procedure on how to do this that is available
from the WineHQ web site.
>Thanks for the assistance.
You are welcome from all of us out here, providing assistance on a volunteer
basis (and some of us are lucky enough to get paid by CodeWeavers to work with
Wine as well.)

James McKenzie

I tested and found that wine 1.1.8 worked and 1.1.9 did not.
Using "git bisect" I narrowed down to a patch and filed bug # 16376 on
this. I did a bit of searching first and didn't spot this problem, but my
apologies if a duplicate.
Bug report:  http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16376

If useful to see the code being called I could ask the program author for that.
I'm not sure if that would help or not.

Also, in order to get this program to work at all you need to download
"winhttp.dll" and put that file in the .wine/.../system32 directory.
I'm not quite sure why that file does not appear in the directory along with
all the others, but I'm not much more than a casual user of wine.

Thanks for all the help on this. I'm hoping that this is fixed in a future
wine release so that I can allow wine upgrades in the future.

You are correct, all I need to do is "touch winhttp.dll" in the
system32 directory and the program will work. I have no idea why this is, but
I'm really not an expert on the workings of wine. Just trying to use it.
(Actually trying to support someone else using it so they can use Linux instead
of Windows.)