wine users - Jan 2004 - Browse boxes to change install directory halt Wine

Hi again,

Now that Ender so kindly enabled me to use Wine (now using 20040121
under Mandrake 9.2), "naturally" the first thing I did was try to
install some games.

Before anybody says "WineX".... just don't. The precompiled
Mandrake
binaries from http://www003.portalis.it/115/ install fine, but on the
whole I've always had more success running Wine and I can't afford to
subscribe to WineX anyway. 

So here's my (first) problem: I do not want to install to the
fake_windows Program Files directory. I have paths set up in .config to
other partitions. One is FAT32, for games that I may also play when
booted into Windows, and one ext3 shared Linux partition for the very
purpose of installing large games that I play under any one of the four
distros I run.

But when I tried to install SiN and Half-Life (I copied and pasted the
InstallShield directories from my Windows install so the installs
themselves go fine so far) and clicked the "Browse" button to change
directories, the child window opened, but was blank in both the list
window and drop down menus (so I could not select another "drive" or
directory). I could type a path manually, but clicking neither OK nor
Cancel dispelled the child window, and neither the child window or main
window could be dispelled by any means (including closing the terminal
window I had run the setup command from)-- except for killing (not
ending, killing) the (main) wine-pthread process in the System Monitor
(as opposed to the wineserver or any other wine-pthreads or other
wine-related processes).

If it's helpful, here's the logs from the terminal up to the point of
the error:

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Half-Life:

bash-2.05b$ wine SETUP.EXE
Loading required GL library /usr/lib/libGL.so.1
Loading required GL library /usr/lib/libGL.so.1
fixme:dialog:MSGBOX_OnInit task modal msgbox ! Not modal yet.
bash-2.05b$ err:dosfs:DRIVE_GetLabel Invalid or unreadable superblock on
/dev/floppy/0 (A:).
Invalid or unreadable superblock on /dev/floppy/0 (A:). Maybe not FAT?
fixme:dosfs:CDROM_GetLabel Need to get the label of a mixed mode CD!
fixme:shell:ShellView_OnNotify -- 0x4adaae30 WM_COMMAND ffffff98 unhandled
 
----------------------------------------------------------------------
SiN:

bash-2.05b$ wine setup.exe
Loading required GL library /usr/lib/libGL.so.1
Loading required GL library /usr/lib/libGL.so.1
bash-2.05b$ Loading required GL library /usr/lib/libGL.so.1
Loading required GL library /usr/lib/libGL.so.1
err:dosfs:DRIVE_GetLabel Invalid or unreadable superblock on
/dev/floppy/0 (A:).Invalid or unreadable superblock on /dev/floppy/0
(A:). Maybe not FAT?
fixme:shell:ShellView_OnNotify -- 0x4ad97990 WM_COMMAND ffffff98 unhandled
 
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

There is no floppy in the floppy drive (why would there be? Does it
really make a difference? Surely that can't be the source of the error,
can it?).

Wine problem? User error? Fixable? Hackable? I really do not have room
in my home directory to install much (by my own design), so I hope that
there's a way around it.

Thanks in advance,
Holly Bostick

I'm forwarding a response I got from Roger Beever (roger2@rogernet.net),
as it may be useful for others to have this info.

Roger, in future, please reply to the list (and cc me if you want). All
replies to list messages should appear on the list to help those who may
be having the same problem.

On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 22:00, motub@planet.nl wrote:
> Hi again,
> 
> ------------
> 
> There is no floppy in the floppy drive (why would there be? Does it
> really make a difference? Surely that can't be the source of the error,
> can it?).
> 
Hey you are well ahead of me in getting wine to do anything much but.
You can comment out the Floppy entry in the config including the [ line.
you can reinstate it when / if needed later.
Regards Roger

roger2 wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 12:11:55 +0100, <motub@planet.nl> wrote:
>
>
>> Roger, in future, please reply to the list (and cc me if you want). All
>> replies to list messages should appear on the list to help those who
may
>> be having the same problem.
>
> Thought I had ;-)
> Normally hitting reply does the trick.
> Maybe the machine I used for that reply behaves differently I will check.
> I don't wnat to upset anyone bacause I'm going to be needing help
before long.
> Regards Roger
>  --
> Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/
No, it's not your machine-- it's because my mail server is blacklisted
at a whole bunch of places, so I cannot send mail to this list through a
regular email client. I have to use my ISP's Webmail-- which adds a
"Reply-To" address, which is what your email client is most likely
picking up.

Usually on this list the only way to be sure that the list itself is
actually in the "To:" list of addressees is to use "Reply To
All" rather
than the normal reply.

Holly

> err:dosfs:DRIVE_GetLabel Invalid or unreadable superblock on
> /dev/floppy/0 (A:).Invalid or unreadable superblock on /dev/floppy/0
> (A:). Maybe not FAT?
This is because all drives are always mounted under mandrake, not a problem,
you'll get this if a program tries to access the floppy drive and no disk is
inserted, in any case it's harmless.
> fixme:shell:ShellView_OnNotify -- 0x4adaae30 WM_COMMAND ffffff98 unhandled
Now this may be the problem, if you've got a windows license, try using a
native
copy of shell and shell32, also follow the instructions at
http://www.winehq.com/site/docs/wine-user/bugs
and open a bug report if necessary.

Ivan Leo Murray-Smith wrote:
>>err:dosfs:DRIVE_GetLabel Invalid or unreadable superblock on
>>/dev/floppy/0 (A:).Invalid or unreadable superblock on /dev/floppy/0
>>(A:). Maybe not FAT?
>
>This is because all drives are always mounted under mandrake, not a
problem,
>you'll get this if a program tries to access the floppy drive and no
disk is
>inserted, in any case it's harmless.
>
>>fixme:shell:ShellView_OnNotify -- 0x4adaae30 WM_COMMAND ffffff98
unhandled
>
>Now this may be the problem, if you've got a windows license, try using
a native
>copy of shell and shell32, also follow the instructions at
>http://www.winehq.com/site/docs/wine-user/bugs
>and open a bug report if necessary.
It turns out that I was only partially right about this error-- it does
exist, but for different reasons than what I thought.

In the course of trying this suggestion and trying again to install
Half-Life, I discovered that what actually happens is:

When I click the "Browse" button *2 child windows open, one on top of
the other.*

The one that I could see was the usual (but in this case, blank) browse
tree, and the other is a Save dialog. I can in fact browse through this
Save dialog. Since there is nothing to "save", however, it doesn't
actually solve the problem as a whole, given that I cannot select
"Save"
to choose the directory I'm aiming at (not a big surprise, it doesn't
usually work in Windows either when such a thing happens).

However, the reason that I couldn't close the setup was because there
was an open dialog that I didn't know was there. If I close the save
dialog, I can then cancel out of setup normally.

I did change shell32.dll and shell.dll to native; Setup wouldn't even
start with shell32 as native, but would with only shell.dll as native.
Seemed to be unchanged insofar as Setup was already running fine, and
probably would have completed without problems if I would just stop
being stubborn and install to the default directory :-).

So is this phantom Save dialog worthy of a bug report, or is there
something else I should try? I didn't take a log from this last attempt,
but that's easy enough if it's needed.

Thanks,
Holly

> So is this phantom Save dialog worthy of a bug report, or is there
> something else I should try? I didn't take a log from this last
attempt,
> but that's easy enough if it's needed.
You can open a bug report, and set it to a low priority (Minor instead of
normal), it's still a bug in wine, even if it's easy to get round it.

Ivan.