http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13844
--- Comment #12 from Dan Kegel dank@kegel.com 2009-05-01 11:12:18 --- OK, the mscoree thing is a canard, see http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6880#c7
It turns out that setting win2k mode some time after the install seemingly exited really does let the install complete!
So the recipe is:
rm -rf ~/.wine wine msiexec /i python-2.6.2.msi /qb wine pywin32-212.win32-py2.6.exe ls ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/temp/ and notice how it's filling up with little temp files; each one represents one retry of something sh winetricks win2k
You could probably set win2k mode beforehand, it's just fun to watch it work after the fact like that. The log file in the bad case shows
1908f:Call KERNEL32.GetPrivateProfileStringA(00408f58 "Setup",00409448 "user_access_control",00408514 "",00410a30,0000000a,00531430 "C:\windows\temp\~duc5ab.tmp") ret=004046a5 1908f:Ret KERNEL32.GetPrivateProfileStringA() retval=00000004 ret=004046a5 1908f:Call KERNEL32.GetVersionExA(0033edbc) ret=0040356b 1908f:Ret KERNEL32.GetVersionExA() retval=00000001 ret=0040356b 1908f:Call KERNEL32.LoadLibraryA(00408594 "shell32.dll") ret=004034b9 1908f:Ret KERNEL32.LoadLibraryA() retval=7e7f0000 ret=004034b9 1908f:Call KERNEL32.GetProcAddress(7e7f0000,00408f48 "IsUserAnAdmin") ret=004034cc 1908f:Ret KERNEL32.GetProcAddress() retval=00000000 ret=004034cc 1908f:Call advapi32.RegOpenKeyExA(80000002,0033ee00 "Software\Python\PythonCore\2.6\InstallPath",00000000,00020019,0033edfc) ret=00403525 ...
but in the good case shows 19099:Call KERNEL32.GetPrivateProfileStringA(00408f58 "Setup",00409448 "user_access_control",00408514 "",00410a30,0000000a,00531430 "C:\windows\temp\~duc9c4.tmp") ret=004046a5 19099:Ret KERNEL32.GetPrivateProfileStringA() retval=00000004 ret=004046a5 19099:Call KERNEL32.GetVersionExA(0033edbc) ret=0040356b 19099:Ret KERNEL32.GetVersionExA() retval=00000001 ret=0040356b 19099:Call KERNEL32.GetModuleHandleA(00000000) ret=00402607 19099:Ret KERNEL32.GetModuleHandleA() retval=00400000 ret=00402607 19099:Call user32.LoadCursorA(00000000,00007f00) ret=00402619 19099:Ret user32.LoadCursorA() retval=000010de ret=00402619 19099:Call gdi32.CreateSolidBrush(00800000) ret=00402627 19099:Ret gdi32.CreateSolidBrush() retval=0000030c ret=00402627 19099:Call user32.RegisterClassA(0033de20) ret=0040263f ...
It'd be interesting to see if that also affected a "hello, world" distutils installer.