wine users - Jun 2002 - Microsoft Home Publishing - 'file could not be opened'

I have managed to run Microsoft Home Publishing with Codeweavers Preview 6 on
mandrake 8.2, using my existing Windows installation.  It loads and diplays Ok,
I can get the help info and previews pop up for project templates.  All seems
well until I try to open a template, a recent project or any .php file from a
directory.  In the first two instances I get a box saying the file could not be
opened.  In the last the program hangs.  There are no error messages in the log
other than 'unhandled exception' in the last case.
              Early in the loading of the program it does say: 'fixme: file:
SetFileAttributesA Couldn't set file attributes for existing file /Microsoft
Home Publishing 2000/Hpuk.gdb' . I investigated this through Google,
thinking it might be connected to the problem, and found that my /mnt/windows
partition might be set to Read Only.  However, I find that every relevant file
is rwx for everybody.  To make sure I tried as root but no difference, and I set
the /mnt/windows entry in /etc/fstab to umask 000.  Still no joy.
           I tried with fake windows and could not get it to run at all.  I
tried freshly installing Home Publishing from the cd into fake windows  and
could not get it to do so. Can anyone help me please?  My wife uses this all the
time and it is my final tie to Windows!

Hi John,
  you created an excellent bug report. Could you,
please submit this information to the Wine bug
tracking system at http://bugs.winehq.com ?
Currently this is the preferred way to report Wine
bugs.

--- John Mellor <John@Kungfu-tse.net> wrote:
> I have managed to run Microsoft Home Publishing with
> Codeweavers Preview 6 on mandrake 8.2, using my
> existing Windows installation.  It loads and diplays
> Ok, I can get the help info and previews pop up for
> project templates.  All seems well until I try to
> open a template, a recent project or any .php file
> from a directory.  In the first two instances I get
> a box saying the file could not be opened.  In the
> last the program hangs.  There are no error messages
> in the log other than 'unhandled exception' in the
> last case. 
These are, probably different issues. Please submit a
separate bug reports for the "File Not Found" messages
and for the exception.
>               Early in the loading of the program it
> does say: 'fixme: file: SetFileAttributesA Couldn't
> set file attributes for existing file /Microsoft
> Home Publishing 2000/Hpuk.gdb' .
I do not think this FIXME message matters.
> I investigated this
> through Google, thinking it might be connected to
> the problem, and found that my /mnt/windows
> partition might be set to Read Only.  However, I
> find that every relevant file is rwx for everybody. 
> To make sure I tried as root but no difference, and
> I set the /mnt/windows entry in /etc/fstab to umask
> 000.  Still no joy. 
>            I tried with fake windows and could not
> get it to run at all.  I tried freshly installing
> Home Publishing from the cd into fake windows  and
> could not get it to do so. Can anyone help me
> please?  My wife uses this all the time and it is my
> final tie to Windows!
Will try to help you to cut this tie ;-)
It would be great if you reproduced the bug not on
Codeweaver's Wine, but on regular Wine source
distribution (or even CVS distribution) - it is not
difficult at all to set it up and much easier to
debug.
I remember some file handling problems were fixed in
the recent CVS.

Andriy


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