[Wine] Issues with vcrun2005

Michael Blumenkrantz
Sun, 31 Mar 2013 18:35:22 -0000

On Sat, 30 Mar 2013 12:03:27 +0000
Michael Blumenkrantz <michael.blumenkrantz at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've recently been having issues when trying to install vcrun2005 using
wine 1.5.25-1.5.27 and winetricks (latest). I'm using a clean wineprefix,
and it seems that the wine process hangs in executing the installer exe; strace
shows that it's sitting in wait().
>
> I recall that this used to work...is this a known bug?
>
> Thanks in advance!

Hi,

Disregard the previous mail here, the issue was a bug in systemd where not
having hugetlbfs enabled causes any process accessing /dev/hugepages (such as
wine) to hang permanently.