http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7448
Summary: MSDN academic alliance downloader hangs Product: Wine Version: 0.9.30. Platform: PC OS/Version: Linux Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: wine-kernel AssignedTo: wine-bugs@winehq.org ReportedBy: jisakiel@yahoo.es
My university has some agreement with microsoft which lets us use their software for free while we are registrated. One downloads a small executable (426K), which then itself downloads the ISO file, and assemblies it.
While running it under wine it crashes a lot, I *think* when changing context outside of the wine process (if I just click next and wait it downloads for a while, but crashed as soon as I got out of xscreensaver, for instance).
Some useful info...
If the EXE is needed (or could help) I can upload it to a private http server of mine, though I'm not sure of the legality of it even if I host it (say, under webdav).
Before the first run it asked me to download the gecko engine, which I agreed to.
My wine instalation is 0.9.30 under gentoo (2.4.19-beyond3, xorg 7.2, just recompiled under gcc 4.1.2, glibc 2.5) with sane CFLAGS "-march=pentium-m -mtune=pentium-m -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -msse -msse2", CXXFLAGS += -fvisibility-inlines-hidden. Relevant USEflags are "X alsa arts cups dbus hal jack jpeg lcms ncurses opengl oss xml -esd -ldap -nas -scanner". I can try different combinations if it may help (say, run it without -O or with -g).
wine config is relatively unspoiled; I only installed ies4linux latest stable version and configured the external drives with winecfg, the sound driver to dmix and the appearance to XP.
The downloader is downloading to I:\ISOs, which is hosted in an external drive mounted in /media/disk-1 connected by USB and in vfat format. I have no trouble using the drive (and the downloader gets to do some percentage, say 2 or 3% before failing). Nevertheless it also hangs using C:\temp as an output, which is under ~ in reiser format.
In other matters... keep up the good work guys ^^