solution: IE6 setup says "The download location information is damaged"
Hey, If you're still having this problem, please make sure you are not on a remote or network-mounted drive. IE6 setup checks if the drive is remote, and will not install if it is, complaining with the completely non-related error that "The download location information is damaged." If you're not sure whether you're on a remote drive or not, and the IE6 setup is still not working, please post back and attach a +volume trace. I was frustrated that the setup was not working on my work machine, while it was on my home machine. Reading through a +all log showed that GetDriveTypeW was returning 4 for my work machine, which is DRIVE_REMOTE, and then it would fail with the message box. Hacking GetDriveTypeW to always return DRIVE_FIXED let me install onto my remote drive. Thanks, James Hawkins
On 6/20/06, James Hawkins <truiken(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hey,
If you're still having this problem, please make sure you are not on a remote or network-mounted drive. IE6 setup checks if the drive is remote, and will not install if it is, complaining with the completely non-related error that "The download location information is damaged." If you're not sure whether you're on a remote drive or not, and the IE6 setup is still not working, please post back and attach a +volume trace. I was frustrated that the setup was not working on my work machine, while it was on my home machine. Reading through a +all log showed that GetDriveTypeW was returning 4 for my work machine, which is DRIVE_REMOTE, and then it would fail with the message box. Hacking GetDriveTypeW to always return DRIVE_FIXED let me install onto my remote drive.
Alternatively, you can go into winecfg->Drives->Show Advanced and change the Type from Autodetect to "Local hard disk". -- James Hawkins
On Tue, 20 Jun 2006, James Hawkins wrote:
If you're still having this problem, please make sure you are not on a remote or network-mounted drive. IE6 setup checks if the drive is remote, and will not install if it is, complaining with the completely non-related error that "The download location information is damaged."
Alternatively, you can go into winecfg->Drives->Show Advanced and change the Type from Autodetect to "Local hard disk".
Indeed, this was the problem! On my FC4 machine, my home directory is NFS mounted. Perhaps this can be mentioned in the AppDb Howto? I'll close the bug. Thanks. -- Peter Åstrand ThinLinc Chief Developer Cendio http://www.cendio.se Teknikringen 3 583 30 Linköping Phone: +46-13-21 46 00
On Tue, 20 Jun 2006, Peter Åstrand wrote:
On Tue, 20 Jun 2006, James Hawkins wrote:
If you're still having this problem, please make sure you are not on a remote or network-mounted drive. IE6 setup checks if the drive is remote, and will not install if it is, complaining with the completely non-related error that "The download location information is damaged."
Alternatively, you can go into winecfg->Drives->Show Advanced and change the Type from Autodetect to "Local hard disk".
Indeed, this was the problem! On my FC4 machine, my home directory is NFS mounted.
I guess a lot of applications might behave bad with C: being a Network drive. It seems a lot safer to tag C: as "Hard disk" as default. What about this patch?: Index: tools/wine.inf =================================================================== RCS file: /home/wine/wine/tools/wine.inf,v retrieving revision 1.77 diff -u -r1.77 wine.inf --- tools/wine.inf 19 Jun 2006 08:36:44 -0000 1.77 +++ tools/wine.inf 21 Jun 2006 07:41:05 -0000 @@ -289,6 +289,7 @@ HKLM,System\CurrentControlSet\Control\VMM32Files,,,"" HKLM,System\CurrentControlSet\Services\VxD\MSTCP,,,"" HKCU,Software\Wine\shdocvw,"MozillaUrl",,"http://source.winehq.org/mozactivex" +HKLM,Software\Wine\Drives,"C:",,"hd" HKLM,HARDWARE\DEVICEMAP\PARALLEL PORTS,,,"" HKLM,HARDWARE\DEVICEMAP\SERIALCOMM,,,"" Regards, -- Peter Åstrand ThinLinc Chief Developer Cendio http://www.cendio.se Teknikringen 3 583 30 Linköping Phone: +46-13-21 46 00
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