[Bug 2718] Wine crashing with special user .. others work

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2718





------- Additional Comments From a_villacis(a)palosanto.com  2005-14-03 14:57 -------
This is possibly not a Wine bug, but a Linux kernel bug.

The Linux kernel 2.6.x up to 2.6.9 had a bug in the VFAT_IOCTL_READDIR_BOTH
[http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3647] that caused a segfault if the
following conditions were true:

* A VFAT partition was mounted with the utf8 option turned on.
* An application (such as Wine on startup) tried to use VFAT_IOCTL_READDIR_BOTH
  to list the directory contents of a directory inside the VFAT partition. 

I was the original reporter of this bug, and I stumbled upon it while using
Wine. Probably what is happening in your setup is that the user xeroc uses
a native Windows installation as its Wine drive, and the other users use a
fake Windows drive (one in the /home/user directory), and the Windows 
partition is mounted with the utf8 option. If this is the case, and you are 
using a 2.6 kernel prior to 2.6.10, your best bet is to upgrade your kernel
to 2.6.10 or higher. If you can't, the second best option is to remount your
Windows partition without the utf8 option.

Hope this helps.

Alex Villacis Lasso


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