[Bug 12369] New: MEGA program crashes on startup under wine

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12369

Summary: MEGA program crashes on startup under wine
           Product: Wine
           Version: 0.9.58.
          Platform: Other
               URL: http://www.megasoftware.net/mega_linux.html
        OS/Version: other
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: critical
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]

Created an attachment (id=11863)
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Trace of running "wine /usr/local/bin/MEGA/MEGA4.exe"

There is a book "Phylogenetic Trees Made Easy", by "Barry G. Hall" which
discusses the use of the MEGA4 program for phylogenetic (gene history)
analysis.  This program is "supposed" to run on Linux under Wine.

It crashes shortly after startup under Gentoo Linux (2.6.23-gentoo-r8) with
current versions of wine (0.9.58 and 0.9.59).  It displays the first program
image (copyright, developer names, etc.) then crashes.

Attached is the console log.  More expanded traces will follow.  The developers
of the program have been notified about the problem, but to date no response
has been received.

[Bug 12369] MEGA program crashes on startup under wine

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12369

--- Comment #1 from Robert Bradbury   2008-04-05 07:33:44 ---
Created an attachment (id=11864)
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Last 1000 lines of trace of MEGA4.exe with WINEDEBUG=relay

[Bug 12369] MEGA program crashes on startup under wine

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12369

--- Comment #2 from Dmitry Timoshkov   2008-04-05 09:15:46 ---
How did you install the application? How did it happen to appear under
/usr/local/bin/MEGA/ ?

[Bug 12369] MEGA program crashes on startup under wine

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12369

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--- Comment #3 from Robert Bradbury   2008-04-05 10:05:28 ---
Dmitry, I downloaded the binary "package" from the MEGA web site which gives me
a (MEGA-4-01.i386.rpm) file, used rpm2cpio to convert it to a .cpio.gz file and
the extracted the cpio file as root from /).  The files appear to be in the
cpio archive as "./usr/local/bin/MEGA/...").

They claim to only run under RedHat, but that really shouldn't cause problems
under Wine.  I didn't install directly from the rpm because I'm unfamiliar with
the switches for using rpm and there is no "rpm" database (if such is required)
on a Gentoo system.

[Bug 12369] MEGA program crashes on startup under wine

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12369

Austin English  changed:

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--- Comment #4 from Austin English   2008-04-05 14:12:30 ---
Not critical.

Have you tried using alien to convert the rpm file?

[Bug 12369] MEGA program crashes on startup under wine

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12369

--- Comment #5 from Dmitry Timoshkov   2008-04-06 04:23:24 ---
You either need to install the application properly under Wine, so that
it gets installed under ~/.wine, or request support from the application
developers not here.

[Bug 12369] MEGA program crashes on startup under wine

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12369

--- Comment #6 from Robert Bradbury   2008-04-06 08:10:41 ---
Dmitry, your last statement IMO is complete caca.  For wine to work properly,
it is not necessary to install applications under the ~/.wine directory.

I have my old Windows XP C: drive (NTFS) partition mounted as /frodo/c.
I create wrapper shell scripts that run both SOL.EXE and EXCEL.EXE from that
drive by invoking them with something of the form:

$WINE $SOL
or
$WINE $EXCEL

where the shell variables are set to the proper UNIX paths for wine and the
windows executable ON the old C: NTFS partition.

Now, it is sometimes necessary to make sure the application gets access to
various DLL libraries (wine is very good about informing one regarding missing
DLLs, e.g. msc42u.dll (which is required for running SkypeMate.exe).  One can
resolve these problems by either symlinking them from the old /frodo/c/WINDOWS
directory into the $HOME/.wine/dosdevices/c:/windows directory, or copy them
from the old WINDOWS directory to the wine windows directory if one feels like
wasting disk space.  One can also setup the WINEDLLPATH environment variable to
point to various directories on the old Windows C drive, e.g. /frodo/c/Program\
Files/Microsoft\ Office-various-sub-directories-, if one doesn't want to copy
or symlink the various DLL's from their install position on the Windows C:
drive into the wine pseudo-windows drives.

If there was a problem with MEGA4.EXE accessing a DLL or file in
/usr/local/bin/MEGA/... I would expect that it would inform me of such (trying
to run the visual basic editor from Excel.exe generates a host of such errors).
 This is not the error I get trying to start MEGA4.  The fact that the normal
file access routines, when searching for DLL's, spew out a number of
directories being scanned (and Excel, Word, etc.) find files that are located
in sub-directories, suggests to me that the file locating aspects of wine work
just fine.  The fact that the MEGA4 program does start up and display the
copyright window suggests that is is fine as well.  The program fault appears
to occur when it attempts to bring up the primary program window which has the
menus that allow it to load gene sequences.

Now, the fact that MEGA is documented as working on RedHat under wine and the
fact that the paths are *in* the distribution RPM as being under
/usr/local/bin/MEGA (Do a "strings MEGA-4-01.i386.rpm | grep local") strongly
suggests to me that it is *supposed* to be installed in /usr/local/bin and it
is supposed to work from that location.

If you give me a good reason why it is supposed to be installed under ~/.wine
and tell me how I am supposed to go about doing it (and whether it should be
installed under ~/.wine/drive_c, ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files,
~/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Program Files/ or some other location) I'll be happy to
relocate or stick in a symbolic link to the MEGA directory.  But from where I
sit that doesn't seem to be the problem.

And I have pointed out the problem to both the developers and the book
publisher and have yet to receive a response.  My primary interest is in
determining which version of wine MEGA once ran under as I have had experiences
in the past where programs which once worked under wine seemed to stop working
as it was upgraded.

[Bug 12369] MEGA program crashes on startup under wine

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12369

--- Comment #7 from Dmitry Timoshkov   2008-04-06 23:53:45 ---
(In reply to comment #6)
> Dmitry, your last statement IMO is complete caca.  For wine to work properly,
> it is not necessary to install applications under the ~/.wine directory.
> I have my old Windows XP C: drive (NTFS) partition mounted as /frodo/c.
> I create wrapper shell scripts that run both SOL.EXE and EXCEL.EXE from that
> drive by invoking them with something of the form:
> $WINE $SOL
> or
> $WINE $EXCEL
> where the shell variables are set to the proper UNIX paths for wine and the
> windows executable ON the old C: NTFS partition.

Although that might work for some application that setup is not supported
through Wine bugzilla because there are a lot of potential problems with
it: missing registry keys, lack of shared write memory mapping support, etc.
> Now, the fact that MEGA is documented as working on RedHat under wine and the
> fact that the paths are *in* the distribution RPM as being under
> /usr/local/bin/MEGA (Do a "strings MEGA-4-01.i386.rpm | grep local") strongly
> suggests to me that it is *supposed* to be installed in /usr/local/bin and it
> is supposed to work from that location.

If it's distributed as RPM and supposed to be installed under /usr/local then
presumably that setup has been tested by the program distributors, and in that
case you should be able to receive support from them.
> If you give me a good reason why it is supposed to be installed under ~/.wine
> and tell me how I am supposed to go about doing it (and whether it should be
> installed under ~/.wine/drive_c, ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files,
> ~/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Program Files/ or some other location) I'll be happy to
> relocate or stick in a symbolic link to the MEGA directory.  But from where I
> sit that doesn't seem to be the problem.

There should an install program bundled with your Windows application which
should be ran to setup it.

[Bug 12369] MEGA program crashes on startup under wine

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12369

--- Comment #8 from Robert Bradbury   2008-04-07 07:50:32 ---
Dimitry, scientists who write software for academic use which is given away for
free rarely conform to Microsoft's extreme install/uninstall requirements. 
Such is the case here.

There are precisely two EXE files as part of the RPM file:
  MEGA4.exe and MozillaActiveXControl.exe

There is no "index.htm", start.exe or Autorun.inf file -- items one might
expect for a typical Windows "install".

Now, perhaps of interest may be the errors:
err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {1339b54c-3453-11d2-93b9-000000000000} not
registered
err:ole:create_server class {1339b54c-3453-11d2-93b9-000000000000} not
registered
err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {1339b54c-3453-11d2-93b9-000000000000}
could be created for context 0x5
wine: Unhandled exception 0x0eedfade at address 0x0000:0x7edee15e (thread
0009), starting debugger...

Now, IMO wine should *not* be throwing "Unhandled exceptions".  If an object is
not registered or registerable, it should provide those errors and then cleanly
exit.

I have run strace, looking primarily at the open()s which are taking place and
there appear to be no problems locating the files it is seeking.

Furthermore, some help (from wine) in determining what those "classes" mean or
how to register them would be helpful to non-windows gurus.

The file distributed with the RPM package:
  .../part_i__getting_started/installing_mega/rh_system_requirements.htm
documents that on the MAC, one should be using VirtualPC while under Linux one
should be using VMWare (which I do not have installed).

The book on the other hand suggests that on the MAC one should use parallels,
which I tried under Linux a while ago but did not purchase a license for.

Regarding MEGA under Linux, the book says, "The MEGA website says that several
users report using MEGA successfully under Wine."  But the author has no direct
experience with wine and makes no suggestions as to how it should be installed.

[Bug 12369] MEGA program crashes on startup under wine

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12369

--- Comment #9 from Robert Bradbury   2008-04-07 07:53:37 ---
Created an attachment (id=11917)
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Complete list of the contents of the MEGA-4 rpm file

This is a complete listing of the .rpm file distributed for Linux.  This is
directly from the RPM, not from the CPIO extract of the RPM.

If anyone can tell me how one does a "Windows Install" under ~/.wine using this
I would certainly appreciate it.

[Bug 12369] MEGA program crashes on startup under wine

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12369

--- Comment #10 from Dmitry Timoshkov   2008-04-07 08:38:04 ---
1339b54c-3453-11d2-93b9-000000000000 is "Mozilla Web Browser". Have you
tried to install /usr/local/bin/MEGA/Installers/MozillaActiveXControl.exe ?

[Bug 12369] MEGA program crashes on startup under wine

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12369

--- Comment #11 from Robert Bradbury   2008-04-07 09:48:12 ---
Indeed, that was going to be my next step.  And in fact it does appear to
resolve at least the startup problem.

To make mega startup properly under wine, one must first run:
   MozillaActiveXControl.exe
which extracts and installs a number of files in:
   ~/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Program Files/Mozilla ActiveX Control v1.7.12
and may even fiddle with the registry.

After that, MEGA4.exe will start and bring up the standard program window
documented in the book.  If I can successfully load and perform the tests the
book outlines I will consider this bug closed.

I have yet to find anywhere that documents that this is the proper install
process for using MEGA under a windows emulator.

[Bug 12369] MEGA program crashes on startup under wine

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12369

Dmitry Timoshkov  changed:

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--- Comment #12 from Dmitry Timoshkov   2008-04-07 09:55:40 ---
Since the Summary of this bug indicates "startup" this bug is resolved then.

Open a separate bug for other problems if any.

[Bug 12369] MEGA program crashes on startup under wine

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Dmitry Timoshkov  changed:

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--- Comment #13 from Dmitry Timoshkov   2008-04-07 09:55:53 ---
Closing.

[Bug 12369] MEGA program crashes on startup under wine

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12369

--- Comment #14 from Austin English   2008-04-07 12:46:40 ---
Have you tried installing the windows version using wine? The Linux version may
have been tweaked by the applications developers making it harder to support.