[Wine] err:ntdll:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection on Mac OS X 10.5.7

James Mckenzie
Thu, 21 May 2009 14:08:52 -0000

Ishikawakun wrote about [Wine]  err:ntdll:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection on Mac OS X
10.5.7
>
>I just compiled wine for Mac OS X  10.5.7 (2Ghz 1GB Ram old 13"
MacBook) with Xquartz 2.3.3.2
>
Which compliation did you use?  MacPorts, Fink, Mike Kronenberg or another.

>I'm trying to get Thief: The Dark Project to run properly now, in Window
Mode it works fine, beside that i can't see the options or missions screen
after being ingame and pressing <ESC> or <M> the back switching
though works.
>
Is there a demo available of this program?  I would like to try this with
10.5.7/2.3.3/Mike Kronenberg's build environment.


>The real Problem is that after a while i get such a message:
>err:ntdll:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection section 0x69e008 "?" wait
timed out in thread 0009, blocked
>by 001b, retrying (60 sec)
>and the Program just freezes.
>
Do you get a debug dump as well?

>Now i've found mentions in the appdb that this is a multiprocessor
problem and can be fixed by
>using schedtool under linux. My Question now, can i do something on Mac OS
X, like e.g. compiling
>wine to only use one Core or some tool to schedule similiary under OS X?

This was fixed in Wine as well.  I'm doubting that there is a multiprocessor
problem, but it is possible.  I know of no tool that does this for MacOSX.