Re: wine startup problems

[Nat Sloss <nathanialsloss%yahoo.com.au@localhost>]

Hi 

I have a solution to your problem.

Below is what I sent to pkgsrc users and amended to bug report pkg/4560 . wine 
1.2.3 doesn't run on NetBSD 5.0.1 or 5.1.

I hope this helps

Regards,

Nat.


> Hello,
>
> After much mucking around with wine 1.2.3 and wine-devel I've fixed the
> problem of wine not running under NetBSD 5.0.1 or 5.1 I've amended the bug
>
> report I sent regarding the problem with the following:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a fix for this bug.
> >
> > It seems the problem was that the main wine binary was linked against
> > libpthread and contains no pthread code.  Using gdb I found that it was
> > getting stuck at TESTCANCEL(self) in libpthread before calls to read and
> > write.  The debug messages also reported of stack overruns for the wine
> > and wineboot processes.
> >
> > So the solution was not to link the main wine binaries to libpthread. 
> > Wine is still pthreaded as ntdll links against libpthread and I can
> > confirm this through top showing 200% cpu usage for broken windows
> > programs.
> >
> > So here is the patch:
> >
> > $NetBSD$
> >
> > --- loader/Makefile.in.orig     2011-04-08 17:09:51.000000000 +0000
> > +++ loader/Makefile.in
> > @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ all: $(MAIN_BINARY) wine-installed $(EXT
> >
> >  @MAKE_RULES@
> >
> > -LIBPTHREAD  = @LIBPTHREAD@
> > +LIBPTHREAD  =
> >  LDEXECFLAGS = @LDEXECFLAGS@
> >
> >  wine-preloader: preloader.o Makefile.in
> >
> >
> >
> > This patch was also applied to wine-devel and it would also work
> > (wine-devel has other problems under NetBSD 5.0.1 and I will submit
> > additional bug reports and fixes for them.)
> >
> > With the patch applied winecfg starts in about 2 seconds and all features
> > work.  I've tested it with firefox and built-in programs such as notepad
> > and winmine and it works as expected.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Nat.
>
> Thank you to all that have posted.  I hope this helps others.
>
> Regards,
>
> Nat.