[Bug 14055] New: Occasional wine crash during Heroes of Might and Magic III gameplay

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14055

Summary: Occasional wine crash during Heroes of Might and Magic
                    III gameplay
           Product: Wine
           Version: 1.0.0
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]

Created an attachment (id=14275)
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Crash log

During gameplay the game may sometimes crash. It looks like the bug is related
to mp3/sound – “mp3dec.asi” (using OOS in wine). The log shows the
backtrace.

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--- Comment #1 from Austin English   2008-12-23 07:17:15 ---
Is this still an issue in current (1.1.11 or newer) wine?

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--- Comment #2 from Piotr   2008-12-23 07:36:43 ---
I'll check after christmas :)

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--- Comment #3 from [e-mail]  2009-05-30 18:23:32 ---
I can confirm that this bug is encountered in wine-1.1.22 too.

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--- Comment #4 from Fetito   2009-12-29 14:59:59 ---
*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***

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--- Comment #5 from Danil Ilinykh  2010-10-19 08:38:17 CDT ---
wine 1.2.1. Bug is still exists.

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--- Comment #6 from Artem S. Tashkinov  2010-11-15 15:32:22 CST ---
Bug 16683 is probably a dupe of this one.

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--- Comment #7 from Artem S. Tashkinov  2010-11-15 15:55:54 CST ---
OK, with native mp3dec.asi Heroes 3 crash immediately after playing the initial
video into.

So, it seems like wine's mp3des.asi implementation is somewhat buggy.

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--- Comment #8 from Austin English  2010-11-15 17:47:17 CST ---
(In reply to comment #7)
> OK, with native mp3dec.asi Heroes 3 crash immediately after playing the initial
> video into.
>
> So, it seems like wine's mp3des.asi implementation is somewhat buggy.
> PE      22000000-22027000       Export          mp3dec.asi

That file doesn't come from wine.

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--- Comment #9 from Artem S. Tashkinov  2010-11-16 00:33:59 CST ---
You are quite right.

mp3dec.asi is a part of Miles Sound System and this file is supplied with
Heroes 3. However it's strange that almost everyone has his/her crash in this
file (and I've never seen it in any Windows version).

I will try to find a version of this file which doesn't cause crashes.

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--- Comment #10 from Artem S. Tashkinov  2010-11-16 00:59:39 CST ---
Funnily people on Windows XP and Vista also experience a crash in this module:

https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=mp3dec.asi+crash&ie=utf-...

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/itprovistaact/thread/850148...
http://heroescommunity.com/viewthread.php3?TID=18269

There's no solution to this problem posted anywhere.

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--- Comment #11 from Danil Ilinykh  2010-11-16 03:42:17 CST ---
But in wine 0.90 there was no crashes at all! And now they appears too
frequently.

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--- Comment #12 from Artem S. Tashkinov  2010-11-16 04:22:31 CST ---
(In reply to comment #11)
> But in wine 0.90 there was no crashes at all! And now they appears too
> frequently.

Probably wine is getting more and more NT compliant, thus some tricks meant to
emulate Win9x [better] have been removed. Anyway it's a wild guesstimate.

If you are a hundred percent sure this bug wasn't present in Wine 0.9.0, find a
regression using bisect. It's not really difficult, I'd say it's quite simple.

Good luck.

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--- Comment #13 from Marek Paśnikowski  2011-03-22 02:58:46 CDT ---
Created an attachment (id=33761)
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Heroes of Might and Magic III Shadow of Death crash traceback on wine 1.3.16

Bug <a href="http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16683" title="Heroes 3
crashes intermittantly">16683</a> is definitely a duplicate of this bug.
Bug <a href="http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23505" title="Heroes of
Might and Magic III gold hangs">23505</a> is probably a duplicate of this bug.
Please take care of these issues.

When I briefly compared my traceback with previous one, I noticed, that they
slightly differ. It means that in the meantime something connected with this
issue in wine changed.

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--- Comment #14 from Artem S. Tashkinov  2011-03-22 03:08:30 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #13)
> When I briefly compared my traceback with previous one, I noticed, that they
> slightly differ. It means that in the meantime something connected with this
> issue in wine changed.

You must be kidding us, almost everyone has the exact same backtrace:

=>0 0xHEX_NUMBER in mp3dec.asi (+0xHEX_NUMBER) (0xHEX_NUMBER)
0xHEX_NUMBER: movw        %dx,0x0(%edi)

And like I said Windows XP users also have this crash, so I much doubt Wine
developers can do anything about this issue, since mp3dec.asi is a closed
source library.

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--- Comment #15 from Marek Paśnikowski  2011-03-22 03:22:14 CDT ---
I wanted to check the mentioned 0.90 version working good, but PlayOnLinux
neither presents this version, nor leaves any hope for existence of this
particular wine release. I tried running the game with oldest available release
- 0.9.7 - but received this:
/home/hirager/.PlayOnLinux/WineVersions/0.9.7/usr/bin/wineserver: error while
loading shared libraries: libwine_unicode.so.1: cannot open shared object file:
No such file or directory
I don't think I can blindly search for the right version of wine to bisect it.

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--- Comment #16 from Dmitry Timoshkov  2011-03-22 03:23:39 CDT ---
If it worked in Wine 0.90 its would be helpful to perform a regression test
and post its results here.

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--- Comment #17 from Dmitry Timoshkov  2011-03-22 03:24:49 CDT ---
Instructions how to perform the regression testing is here:
http://wiki.winehq.org/RegressionTesting

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--- Comment #18 from Marek Paśnikowski  2011-03-22 03:25:58 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #14)
> (In reply to comment #13)
> > When I briefly compared my traceback with previous one, I noticed, that they
> > slightly differ. It means that in the meantime something connected with this
> > issue in wine changed.
>
> You must be kidding us, almost everyone has the exact same backtrace:
>
> =>0 0xHEX_NUMBER in mp3dec.asi (+0xHEX_NUMBER) (0xHEX_NUMBER)
> 0xHEX_NUMBER: movw        %dx,0x0(%edi)
>
> And like I said Windows XP users also have this crash, so I much doubt Wine
> developers can do anything about this issue, since mp3dec.asi is a closed
> source library.

I am sorry. I am no developer yet. For me, difference between eg.

Backtrace:
=>1 0x220076f1 in mp3dec.asi (+0x76f1) (0x7db2d910)
  2 0x22005cbd in mp3dec.asi (+0x5cbd) (0x00000001)
  3 0x00000000 (0x00000000)

and

Backtrace:
=>0 0x220076f1 in mp3dec.asi (+0x76f1) (0x0225e950)

IS -slight-.

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--- Comment #19 from Marek Paśnikowski  2011-03-22 03:31:02 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #15)
> I wanted to check the mentioned 0.90 version working good, but PlayOnLinux
> neither presents this version, nor leaves any hope for existence of this
> particular wine release. I tried running the game with oldest available release
> - 0.9.7 - but received this:
>
> /home/hirager/.PlayOnLinux/WineVersions/0.9.7/usr/bin/wineserver: error while
> loading shared libraries: libwine_unicode.so.1: cannot open shared object file:
> No such file or directory
> I don't think I can blindly search for the right version of wine to bisect it.

Just another thought:
Could 0.90 release be a RC? If so, which one of the five would it be?

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--- Comment #20 from Artem S. Tashkinov  2011-03-22 03:33:37 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #16)
> If it worked in Wine 0.90 its would be helpful to perform a regression test
> and post its results here.

Please, mark bugs 16683 and 23505 as duplicates of this one.

(In reply to comment #15)
> I wanted to check the mentioned 0.90 version working good, but PlayOnLinux
> neither presents this version, nor leaves any hope for existence of this
> particular wine release. I tried running the game with oldest available release
> - 0.9.7 - but received this:
>
> /home/hirager/.PlayOnLinux/WineVersions/0.9.7/usr/bin/wineserver: error while
> loading shared libraries: libwine_unicode.so.1: cannot open shared object file:
> No such file or directory
> I don't think I can blindly search for the right version of wine to bisect it.

Follow the instructions here: http://wiki.winehq.org/RegressionTesting

It's not necessary to do `make install` for wine, it runs just fine from its
sources tree using a wrapper. Meanwhile wine's Git repository contains all Wine
releases - so bisecting is quite simple and doesn't require you to download
every wine release.

(In reply to comment #19)
> Just another thought:
> Could 0.90 release be a RC? If so, which one of the five would it be?

It doesn't matter how it's called. RC or stable are just designations,
internally Wine is always wine-X.Y.Z (or for very old releases wine-YYYYMMDD).

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--- Comment #21 from Artem S. Tashkinov  2011-03-22 03:38:35 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #18)
> I am sorry. I am no developer yet. For me, difference between eg.
>
> Backtrace:
> =>1 0x220076f1 in mp3dec.asi (+0x76f1) (0x7db2d910)
>   2 0x22005cbd in mp3dec.asi (+0x5cbd) (0x00000001)
>   3 0x00000000 (0x00000000)
>
> and
>
> Backtrace:
> =>0 0x220076f1 in mp3dec.asi (+0x76f1) (0x0225e950)
>
> IS -slight-.

OK, here's the deal: if you backtrace only varies in numbers then it usually
means it's quite the same. Those number can change because you use the
application differently every time you run it, so memory addresses can change.

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--- Comment #22 from Marek Paśnikowski  2011-03-22 03:45:51 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #20)
> (In reply to comment #16)
> > If it worked in Wine 0.90 its would be helpful to perform a regression test
> > and post its results here.
>
> Please, mark bugs 16683 and 23505 as duplicates of this one.
>
> (In reply to comment #15)
> > I wanted to check the mentioned 0.90 version working good, but PlayOnLinux
> > neither presents this version, nor leaves any hope for existence of this
> > particular wine release. I tried running the game with oldest available release
> > - 0.9.7 - but received this:
> >
> > /home/hirager/.PlayOnLinux/WineVersions/0.9.7/usr/bin/wineserver: error while
> > loading shared libraries: libwine_unicode.so.1: cannot open shared object file:
> > No such file or directory
> > I don't think I can blindly search for the right version of wine to bisect it.
>
> Follow the instructions here: http://wiki.winehq.org/RegressionTesting
>
> It's not necessary to do `make install` for wine, it runs just fine from its
> sources tree using a wrapper. Meanwhile wine's Git repository contains all Wine
> releases - so bisecting is quite simple and doesn't require you to download
> every wine release.

I didn't know that - this changes everything. As a user of Chakra, I am not
sure I have access to all required packages right now, but I will try to do my
best here. This particular bug bugs me since a long time.
> (In reply to comment #19)
> > Just another thought:
> > Could 0.90 release be a RC? If so, which one of the five would it be?
>
> It doesn't matter how it's called. RC or stable are just designations,
> internally Wine is always wine-X.Y.Z (or for very old releases wine-YYYYMMDD).

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--- Comment #23 from Marek Paśnikowski  2011-03-22 03:54:25 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #21)
> (In reply to comment #18)
> > I am sorry. I am no developer yet. For me, difference between eg.
> >
> > Backtrace:
> > =>1 0x220076f1 in mp3dec.asi (+0x76f1) (0x7db2d910)
> >   2 0x22005cbd in mp3dec.asi (+0x5cbd) (0x00000001)
> >   3 0x00000000 (0x00000000)
> >
> > and
> >
> > Backtrace:
> > =>0 0x220076f1 in mp3dec.asi (+0x76f1) (0x0225e950)
> >
> > IS -slight-.
>
> OK, here's the deal: if you backtrace only varies in numbers then it usually
> means it's quite the same. Those number can change because you use the
> application differently every time you run it, so memory addresses can change.

I understand.
What struck me in this particular case, is the difference in number and count
of backtrace steps. I'll see, how those change in time and version (I assume
that 1.3.37 really is 1.1.37 - 1.3 cycle hasn't come so far yet).

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--- Comment #24 from Marek Paśnikowski  2011-03-22 03:58:42 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #23)
> (In reply to comment #21)
> > (In reply to comment #18)
> > > I am sorry. I am no developer yet. For me, difference between eg.
> > >
> > > Backtrace:
> > > =>1 0x220076f1 in mp3dec.asi (+0x76f1) (0x7db2d910)
> > >   2 0x22005cbd in mp3dec.asi (+0x5cbd) (0x00000001)
> > >   3 0x00000000 (0x00000000)
> > >
> > > and
> > >
> > > Backtrace:
> > > =>0 0x220076f1 in mp3dec.asi (+0x76f1) (0x0225e950)
> > >
> > > IS -slight-.
> >
> > OK, here's the deal: if you backtrace only varies in numbers then it usually
> > means it's quite the same. Those number can change because you use the
> > application differently every time you run it, so memory addresses can change.
>
> I understand.
> What struck me in this particular case, is the difference in number and count
> of backtrace steps. I'll see, how those change in time and version (I assume
> that 1.3.37 really is 1.1.37 - 1.3 cycle hasn't come so far yet).

OH NO, I can't trust my memory. I got the version number from other bug. :/
Scratch my last sentence in previous comment.

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--- Comment #25 from Dan Kegel  2011-03-22 07:55:33 CDT ---
*** Bug 16683 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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--- Comment #26 from Dan Kegel  2011-03-22 07:56:49 CDT ---
*** Bug 23505 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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--- Comment #27 from Marek Paśnikowski  2011-03-22 19:26:34 CDT ---
I am compiling the wine-git right now. What range should I set the bisect for?
0.9 to 1.1?

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--- Comment #28 from Marek Paśnikowski  2011-03-22 19:42:46 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #27)
> I am compiling the wine-git right now. What range should I set the bisect for?
> 0.9 to 1.1?

I got the exact 'first reported broken version'. It's 1.0.0 I think that I will
start with good=0.9

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--- Comment #29 from Marek Paśnikowski  2011-03-23 07:44:23 CDT ---
I am sorry. I can't do the bisecting. When run with
WINEPREFIX="/home/hirager/.wine" ./wine "C:\the\path.exe", the game complains
about missing files. First time I run it without specifying the prefix but,
having PlayOnLinux environment with many different games, I don't to mess them.
The first run complained about missing files too. I even copied the working POL
prefix to ~/.wine, but it changed nothing. Terminal doesn't bother to list the
missing files.
I can't progress here. Everything I did seems sane. There's a possibility, that
the current version of wine-git broke the launching process, I don't know. In
this case I would need to confirm that. Is there a way to force a compilation
of specified version of wine (1.2 would be good shot here)?
The other possibility is that I compiled the wine-git without support for a
vital feature. The make --verbose did list five or six warnings about missing
programs for which I couldn't find proper packages.
If it's possible, I would go for confirmation in 1.2 version - I need to
compile it from the git, the precompiled binaries won't do the job - they will
work fine. I need to know if it's the compilation process, which brakes the
game.

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--- Comment #30 from Artem S. Tashkinov  2011-03-23 09:53:10 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #29)
> I am sorry. I can't do the bisecting. When run with
> ...

For help in using git and debugging wine, go to irc://irc.freenode.net to the
#git and #winehq channels respectively. Wine's bugzilla is not the best place
to discuss the basics of [git] debugging.

You've mentioned a few missing libraries when you are trying to compile Wine -
I'd say most dependencies must be satisfied else you can end up having wine
which is incapable of running your applications.

Please, name your distro and packages which made wine ./configure script
complain about - I'll try to help you installing them.

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--- Comment #31 from Marek Paśnikowski  2011-03-23 10:17:19 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #30)
> (In reply to comment #29)
> > I am sorry. I can't do the bisecting. When run with
> > ...
>
> For help in using git and debugging wine, go to irc://irc.freenode.net to the
> #git and #winehq channels respectively. Wine's bugzilla is not the best place
> to discuss the basics of [git] debugging.

I have no problem in using git (yet). The game is the one complaining here. It
doesn't start because of missing files.
> You've mentioned a few missing libraries when you are trying to compile Wine -
> I'd say most dependencies must be satisfied else you can end up having wine
> which is incapable of running your applications.

CC="ccache gcc" ./configure --verbose
[...]
configure: OpenCL development files not found, OpenCL won't be supported.
configure: libhal/libdbus development files not found, no dynamic device
support.
configure: lib(n)curses development files not found, curses won't be supported.
configure: libcapi20 development files not found, ISDN won't be supported.
configure: libgsm development files not found, gsm 06.10 codec won't be
supported.
> Please, name your distro and packages which made wine ./configure script
> complain about - I'll try to help you installing them.

I wrote this before - I use Chakra, which is still an alpha project. The
repositories still lack many packages. So the missing programs would need to be
added to the repository, nothing more.

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--- Comment #32 from Marek Paśnikowski  2011-03-23 11:59:40 CDT ---
For now, with every crash I am going to select earlier version of wine in
PlayOnLinux in order to find the place of regression. The last crash I received
was in 1.0-rc1:
Backtrace:
=>1 0x220076f1 in mp3dec.asi (+0x76f1) (0x7d6288e0)
I keep testing now.

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--- Comment #33 from Jeff Zaroyko  2011-03-23 17:31:14 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #31)
> (In reply to comment #30)
> > (In reply to comment #29)
> > > I am sorry. I can't do the bisecting. When run with
> > > ...
>
> I have no problem in using git (yet). The game is the one complaining here. It
> doesn't start because of missing files.

Did you `cd` into the application's directory before trying to run it? Many
applications require you to.

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--- Comment #34 from Marek Paśnikowski  2011-03-24 03:49:54 CDT ---
I have bad news. I went down to 0.9.55, where other bugs started to kick in
ever growing amounts. I think that this is unsolvable in wine; it never worked.
In discussions of Windows users there are some workarounds, but those don't
seem to work in wine. It turns out the bug sits in the game :/ . All I can hope
for is that the Heroes community will come up with something. I can do nothing
about it. Bisecting is impossible because of crossfading of other,
young-age-related bugs.
However, the time is not wasted entirely - I learned some new tricks. Thank you
for cooperation and support.

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--- Comment #35 from Artem S. Tashkinov  2011-03-24 04:08:48 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #34)
> I have bad news. I went down to 0.9.55, where other bugs started to kick in
> ever growing amounts. I think that this is unsolvable in wine; it never worked.
> In discussions of Windows users there are some workarounds, but those don't
> seem to work in wine. It turns out the bug sits in the game :/ . All I can hope
> for is that the Heroes community will come up with something. I can do nothing
> about it. Bisecting is impossible because of crossfading of other,
> young-age-related bugs.
> However, the time is not wasted entirely - I learned some new tricks. Thank you
> for cooperation and support.

Someone here on bugzilla mentioned that Wine 0.9.0 doesn't have this problem,
have you tested this specific version?

[Bug 14055] Heroes of Might and Magic III occasionally crashes

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14055

--- Comment #36 from Artem S. Tashkinov  2011-03-24 04:12:03 CDT ---
Dmitry,

to be even more precise:

-Heroes of Might and Magic III occasionally crashes
+Heroes of Might and Magic III occasionally crashes in mp3dec.asi dll

[Bug 14055] Heroes of Might and Magic III occasionally crashes

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14055

--- Comment #37 from Marek Paśnikowski  2011-03-24 04:18:44 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #35)
> (In reply to comment #34)
> > I have bad news. I went down to 0.9.55, where other bugs started to kick in
> > ever growing amounts. I think that this is unsolvable in wine; it never worked.
> > In discussions of Windows users there are some workarounds, but those don't
> > seem to work in wine. It turns out the bug sits in the game :/ . All I can hope
> > for is that the Heroes community will come up with something. I can do nothing
> > about it. Bisecting is impossible because of crossfading of other,
> > young-age-related bugs.
> > However, the time is not wasted entirely - I learned some new tricks. Thank you
> > for cooperation and support.
>
> Someone here on bugzilla mentioned that Wine 0.9.0 doesn't have this problem,
> have you tested this specific version?

In PlayOnLinux, which I use, the oldest is 0.9.7. This particular version had
broken start-up, so I chose 0.9.10, then 0.9.20, and so on. In wine SourceForge
the oldest is 0.9.19. I can check some of the oldest releases in POL.

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--- Comment #38 from Artem S. Tashkinov  2011-03-24 04:20:46 CDT ---
I thought you were using GIT which incorporates all wine releases.

PlayOnLinux is neither supported here, nor endorsed.

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14055

--- Comment #39 from Marek Paśnikowski  2011-03-24 13:10:34 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #38)
> I thought you were using GIT which incorporates all wine releases.
>
> PlayOnLinux is neither supported here, nor endorsed.

I have asked whether it's possible to get a specific Wine version from git, and
if so, how to do that. I never received the response, so I continued to use an
easiest solution. I don't think it matters, be it GIT, or POL - those builds
can't differ that much. After all, I am not debugging the Wine.
GIT FAQ doesn't list the question about creating an old build. Without this bit
of info I can't proceed. So either I can search the vast documentation, or
kindly ask you for the info. So, can you tell me, how to get this 0.9.0 release
up and running, please?

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--- Comment #40 from Juan Lang  2011-03-24 13:53:44 CDT ---
> I have asked whether it's possible to get a specific Wine version from git, and
> if so, how to do that.

git checkout 0.9.0

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--- Comment #41 from Artem S. Tashkinov  2011-03-24 14:09:50 CDT ---
After you've cloned Wine GIT repo:

$ git clone git://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git ~/wine-git

(that will deploy Wine into your /home/user_name/wine-git directory)

you can reset this GIT tree to any Wine version you want using this command:

$ git checkout wine-0.9

(available versions can be seen using `git tag -l | less` command)

now you can ./configure and run ./wine

***

Actually you were supposed to follow this document:
http://wiki.winehq.org/RegressionTesting but then again you need to know for
sure that Wine 0.9 indeed works. If it _really_ works, then you _have_ to carry
out regression testing, e.g. this way:

git bisect start
git bisect good wine-0.9.0
git bisect bad wine-1.0

and so on.

***

Last but not the least: you can download _all_ previously released wine
releases from here http://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/system/emulators/wine/

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--- Comment #42 from Marek Paśnikowski  2011-03-24 17:06:10 CDT ---
Briefly:
git clone
git checkout wine-0.9
./configure
make depend
"lex.yy.c:9221:48: error: expected ‘;’, ‘,’ or ‘)’ before numeric constant"

I found this place:
/* %if-c-only */
/** Setup the input buffer state to scan a string. The next call to yylex()
will
 * scan from a @e copy of @a str.
 * @param yystr a NUL-terminated string to scan
 * 
 * @return the newly allocated buffer state object.
 * @note If you want to scan bytes that may contain NUL values, then use
 *       yy_scan_bytes() instead.
 */
YY_BUFFER_STATE yy_scan_string (yyconst char * yystr )
----------------------------------------------^-------

What now? Should it be (yyconst char * (yystr) )?

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--- Comment #43 from Artem S. Tashkinov  2011-03-24 17:12:31 CDT ---
Almost the first Google hit leads right to the solution of your problem:
http://wiki.winehq.org/ReverseRegressionTesting

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--- Comment #44 from Marek Paśnikowski  2011-03-28 11:34:19 CDT ---
Guys, I am sorry for silence - I suddenly had to move to an offline location
for the few days.

I would very much like to help here, but the reverse regression testing is too
much for me. On my hardware, the compilation of wine takes about three hours
with all possible resources freed for the process. I estimate it could take up
to two weeks of constant compilation on my small machine to find the issue. As
I said - it's too much.

However, we do have progress here - we know it's mp3dec.asi; so someone else
can pick up the trail now. I hope that happens sooner than later.

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--- Comment #45 from Artem S. Tashkinov  2011-03-28 11:45:28 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #44)
> I would very much like to help here, but the reverse regression testing is too
> much for me. On my hardware, the compilation of wine takes about three hours
> with all possible resources freed for the process. I estimate it could take up
> to two weeks of constant compilation on my small machine to find the issue. As
> I said - it's too much.

It looks like you've overlooked ccache, which can speed up your compilation
manyfold. And yes, you are right, developing or doing regression tests requires
beefy hardware, quite often software developers employ dual socket six cores
workstations to speed up their compilation process.

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--- Comment #46 from Artem S. Tashkinov  2011-03-28 11:58:21 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #44)

Two more things to consider:

1) If you have more than one CPU core, make sure you run make with -j option,
e.g.

$ nice make -j2 (if you have two CPU cores)

nice is there so that compilation process doesn't interfere with your desktop
activities

2) make sure you've exported proper CFLAGS which can greatly reduce compilation
times, like these ones

$ export CFLAGS="-O1 -pipe"

These CFLAGS alone can cut your compilation times fivefold.

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--- Comment #47 from Artem S. Tashkinov  2011-03-28 12:17:11 CDT ---
Sadly I doubt anyone will complete a proper regression testing, because Wine
0.9.0 cannot be built on a modern Linux distro as this Wine version requires
old OpenGL headers, an old freetype2 library and probably other hacks which I
haven't yet discovered (judging from my short experience trying to build it on
Fedora 14).

As Heroes of Might and Magic III game is known to crash on Windows XP and later
Windows releases and Wine strives for at least Windows XP compatibility, I
suppose we can safely close this bug as "WONTFIX/INVALID/ABANDONED".

Of course, people who are genuinely interested in solving this bug are welcomed
to carry out a proper regression testing.

Another solution (IMO the best one) is to get in touch with Miles Sound System
developers (http://www.radgametools.com/miles.htm) who can probably identify
and solve this issue as this library mp3dec.asi is their product.

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--- Comment #48 from Artem S. Tashkinov  2011-03-28 12:39:42 CDT ---
Created an attachment (id=33842)
 --> (http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=33842)
h3sndfix.zip, an mp3dec.asi fix for Windows XP, Vista, 7 and Wine

Actually people have already contacted the aforementioned developers with
little success, the problem is not in the library but in a way Heroes 3 works
with it.

Read more information here:
http://heroescommunity.com/viewthread.php3?TID=18269
> Here's a link (http://www.celestialheavens.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=8031) to the Heroes III sound fix, as promised.

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--- Comment #49 from Austin English  2011-03-28 12:45:51 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #48)
> Created an attachment (id=33842)

--> (http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=33842) [details]
> h3sndfix.zip, an mp3dec.asi fix for Windows XP, Vista, 7 and Wine
>
> Actually people have already contacted the aforementioned developers with
> little success, the problem is not in the library but in a way Heroes 3 works
> with it.
>
> Read more information here:
> http://heroescommunity.com/viewthread.php3?TID=18269
> > Here's a link (http://www.celestialheavens.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=8031) to the Heroes III sound fix, as promised.

Invalid then, thanks.

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--- Comment #50 from Dmitry Timoshkov  2011-03-28 23:31:49 CDT ---
Closing invalid.

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--- Comment #51 from Marek Paśnikowski  2011-04-01 04:58:20 CDT ---
It turned out, that once mp3dec.asi is moved out of its directory, the game
stops crashing. Sadly, no music plays then - only sounds.

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--- Comment #52 from Dmitry Timoshkov  2011-04-07 21:46:00 CDT ---
*** Bug 26687 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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--- Comment #53 from Michał Z. Gołębiowski  2011-04-21 07:39:44 CDT ---
I don't know if it's relevant but I've noticed something funny. I have added an
applet letting me to change CPU mode for each core
(Powersave/Conservative/Ondemand/Performance). The default and recommended
setting is Ondemand (I have Intel Core2 Duo P8600 2,4 GHz). If I switch both
cores to Performance, it seems Heroes no longer crashes...

Is it this bug or should I report a different one?

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--- Comment #54 from Artem S. Tashkinov  2011-04-21 08:02:29 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #53)
> I don't know if it's relevant but I've noticed something funny. I have added an
> applet letting me to change CPU mode for each core
> (Powersave/Conservative/Ondemand/Performance). The default and recommended
> setting is Ondemand (I have Intel Core2 Duo P8600 2,4 GHz). If I switch both
> cores to Performance, it seems Heroes no longer crashes...
>
> Is it this bug or should I report a different one?

You are under a lucky alignment of stars. H3 game engine itself is buggy (read
comment 48), there's nothing Wine developers can do. So, please, abstain from
filing a new bug report.

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--- Comment #55 from Michał Z. Gołębiowski  2011-05-22 01:58:02 CDT ---
I've heard for a lot of people setting CPU affinity to 1 helps. Does this
problem occur on single-core setups for you? (I don't have any to check)

Is it possible to enforce CPU affinity in Wine?

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--- Comment #56 from Artem S. Tashkinov  2011-05-22 02:10:58 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #55)
> I've heard for a lot of people setting CPU affinity to 1 helps. Does this
> problem occur on single-core setups for you? (I don't have any to check)
>
> Is it possible to enforce CPU affinity in Wine?

Setting CPU affinity won't help - it's a bug in game, not in Wine, because H3
crash under XP/Vista/7 too with the same error.

Actually I've added a working solution to this bug, please, scroll back and
read more carefully.

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--- Comment #57 from Michał Z. Gołębiowski  2011-05-22 02:19:39 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #56)
> (In reply to comment #55)
> > Is it possible to enforce CPU affinity in Wine?
>
> Setting CPU affinity won't help - it's a bug in game, not in Wine, because H3
> crash under XP/Vista/7 too with the same error.

I know it's not a bug in Wine. And I was talking about _Windows_ users for whom
this workaround helped, not Wine users. As there are a lot of them, I suppose
there's something in it.
> Actually I've added a working solution to this bug, please, scroll back and
> read more carefully.

Right, but what I've written also seems to help a lot of Windows users.

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--- Comment #58 from Reinhard Berger  2011-06-20 00:00:20 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #57)
> (In reply to comment #56)
> > (In reply to comment #55)
> > > Is it possible to enforce CPU affinity in Wine?
> >
> > Setting CPU affinity won't help - it's a bug in game, not in Wine, because H3
> > crash under XP/Vista/7 too with the same error.
>
> I know it's not a bug in Wine. And I was talking about _Windows_ users for whom
> this workaround helped, not Wine users. As there are a lot of them, I suppose
> there's something in it.
> > Actually I've added a working solution to this bug, please, scroll back and
> > read more carefully.
>
> Right, but what I've written also seems to help a lot of Windows users.

Under Linux you can install the program "schedtool" to let wine (heroes3) run
only on one cpu core.

The crashes in mp3dec.asi seems to come from the cpu cores.

Enter the following command to start heroes3.exe :

schedtool -a 0x2 -e wine
"/home/<user>/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Programme/3DO/Heroes3/Heroes3.exe"

Also use winecfg to setup Windows98 Version.

If you do not set wine for win98 version you still get the crashes, even if you
use shedtool !

Also Win98 Version without "shedtool" isn't working either.

You may or not may use the soundfix (for me it doesnt make any differences)

Just note : When playing longer time at once , it looks like sound effects
became some kind of delay but game is still working without any crashes.

Played more then 10h now without any crashes to mp3dec.asi.

Wine is configured for ALSA output, de-installed pulse audio.

Also currently Win1.3.19 or Wine1.3.2x without xinput2 is needed.

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--- Comment #59 from Marek Paśnikowski  2011-07-20 01:12:07 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #58)
> (In reply to comment #57)
> > (In reply to comment #56)
> > > (In reply to comment #55)
> > > > Is it possible to enforce CPU affinity in Wine?
> > >
> > > Setting CPU affinity won't help - it's a bug in game, not in Wine, because H3
> > > crash under XP/Vista/7 too with the same error.
> >
> > I know it's not a bug in Wine. And I was talking about _Windows_ users for whom
> > this workaround helped, not Wine users. As there are a lot of them, I suppose
> > there's something in it.
> > > Actually I've added a working solution to this bug, please, scroll back and
> > > read more carefully.
> >
> > Right, but what I've written also seems to help a lot of Windows users.
>
> Under Linux you can install the program "schedtool" to let wine (heroes3) run
> only on one cpu core.
>
> The crashes in mp3dec.asi seems to come from the cpu cores.
>
> Enter the following command to start heroes3.exe :
>
> schedtool -a 0x2 -e wine
> "/home/<user>/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Programme/3DO/Heroes3/Heroes3.exe"
>
> Also use winecfg to setup Windows98 Version.
>
> If you do not set wine for win98 version you still get the crashes, even if you
> use shedtool !
>
> Also Win98 Version without "shedtool" isn't working either.
>
> You may or not may use the soundfix (for me it doesnt make any differences)
>
> Just note : When playing longer time at once , it looks like sound effects
> became some kind of delay but game is still working without any crashes.
>
> Played more then 10h now without any crashes to mp3dec.asi.
>
> Wine is configured for ALSA output, de-installed pulse audio.
>
> Also currently Win1.3.19 or Wine1.3.2x without xinput2 is needed.

I have tried a few combinations of the wine and schedtool programs, but either
H3 wouldn't start or crash as always. I have the .desktop shortcut on my
desktop. In the "command" field of the propertied window is this:
env WINEPREFIX="/home/[]/.wine/" wine C:\Program\ Files\Ubisoft\Heroes\ of\
Might\ and\ Magic\ III\ -\ Zlota\ Edycja\Heroes3.exe"
Where should I put this schedtool command to run it properly from the icon?
Win98 is set in the winecfg. However, my CentOS 6 uses PulseAudio by default
and has only wine 1.2.3 available.

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--- Comment #60 from Reinhard Berger  2011-07-23 08:10:12 CDT ---
just modify your heroes3.desktop file (Note : I tested with Heroes3 Shadow of
Death) to the following :

Replace the Line "EXEC=" as following :

Exec=schedtool -a 0x1 -e wine "/home/<user>/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Program
Files/3DO/Heroes3/Heroes3.exe"

Replace <user> with your user name.

The working path should be there already, if not add/replace like the following
:

Path=/home/<user>/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Program Files/3DO/Heroes3/

Note :

"Program Files" is the default path, you must/should edit this to your
installed path if it is different.

That is all, if "schedtool" is installed all works fine then without any
freezes in mp3dec any more.

I played now 14 Days at once with more then 14h daily , and have had not only 1
freeze now.

I needed only to change schedtool from 0x2 to 0x1 seems that the program works
better when executed with CORE1 instead of CORE2.

With setting to "0x2" (Core 2)  i have had freezes again after 1-2h of game
play.

Tested with Ubuntu 11.04 , Wine 1.3.15 and NVIDIA Gforce 8500,disabled PULSE.

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--- Comment #61 from Marek Paśnikowski  2011-07-25 00:54:06 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #58)
> (In reply to comment #57)
> > (In reply to comment #56)
> > > (In reply to comment #55)
> > > > Is it possible to enforce CPU affinity in Wine?
> > >
> > > Setting CPU affinity won't help - it's a bug in game, not in Wine, because H3
> > > crash under XP/Vista/7 too with the same error.
> >
> > I know it's not a bug in Wine. And I was talking about _Windows_ users for whom
> > this workaround helped, not Wine users. As there are a lot of them, I suppose
> > there's something in it.
> > > Actually I've added a working solution to this bug, please, scroll back and
> > > read more carefully.
> >
> > Right, but what I've written also seems to help a lot of Windows users.
>
> Under Linux you can install the program "schedtool" to let wine (heroes3) run
> only on one cpu core.
>
> The crashes in mp3dec.asi seems to come from the cpu cores.
>
> Enter the following command to start heroes3.exe :
>
> schedtool -a 0x2 -e wine
> "/home/<user>/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Programme/3DO/Heroes3/Heroes3.exe"
>
> Also use winecfg to setup Windows98 Version.
>
> If you do not set wine for win98 version you still get the crashes, even if you
> use shedtool !
>
> Also Win98 Version without "shedtool" isn't working either.
>
> You may or not may use the soundfix (for me it doesnt make any differences)
>
> Just note : When playing longer time at once , it looks like sound effects
> became some kind of delay but game is still working without any crashes.
>
> Played more then 10h now without any crashes to mp3dec.asi.
>
> Wine is configured for ALSA output, de-installed pulse audio.
>
> Also currently Win1.3.19 or Wine1.3.2x without xinput2 is needed.

I confirm this works partially for Windows XP setting, where only the sound and
music crash out, without affecting the game. Is my guess right that this
happens when kernel moves a game/music process onto a different CPU core?

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--- Comment #62 from joaopa  2011-07-25 01:20:30 CDT ---
Anyway, if the bug occurs in a real Windows box, it is a INVALID bug.

This bug can be closed as INVALID.

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--- Comment #63 from Austin English  2011-07-25 12:30:43 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #62)
> Anyway, if the bug occurs in a real Windows box, it is a INVALID bug.
>
> This bug can be closed as INVALID.

It already is..

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--- Comment #64 from Marek Paśnikowski  2011-07-26 07:16:14 CDT ---
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=4204
I have posted "test data" with the solution to this problem included in
comments. Thank you all for your support and help. Goodbye.

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*** Bug 31265 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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*** Bug 34634 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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*** Bug 36442 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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As the appdb article describes, binding wine to 1 CPU fixes the crash.

taskset -c 0 wine Heroes3.exe

does the trick.

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--- Comment #69 from Austin English  ---
*** Bug 36460 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***