http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20435
--- Comment #7 from Alexei Colin alexei.co@gmail.com 2009-12-17 15:57:12 --- Interesting.. I can no longer reproduce the problem after having updated to Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic. I have carelessly not noted my previous wine version (under Ubuntu 8.10), but it was probably older than it is now (1.0.1).
My current observations are (all for wine 1.0.1 on Ubuntu 9.10): 1. eReader doesn't crash by itself as it used to, I can only make it crash by trying to connect to the online library 2. eReader crashes when I try to connect to Online Library in both XP and 98 mode, but only when wine is configured *not* to override wininet.dll (log attached) 3. The crash does *not* occur when wininet is overriden (and downloaded normaliz.dll and iertutil.dll are used). The internet connection does not work either, but at least a message box notifies of an error: in Windows 98 mode: "A network error was encountered. Failure to create secure session. Please verify your network connection and try again." and in Windows XP mode: "A network error was encountered. Error 12157: Request to server failed. (404)" and some complaining to the console (log attached).
I understand this is low priority, but perhaps this can help make wine better in general (perhaps with regards to internet connectivity). Thank you!