[Bug 18101] New: when trying to start a new game, a file called "default.tot" starts to grow in size arbitrarily

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18101

Summary: when trying to start a new game, a file called
                    "default.tot" starts to grow in size arbitrarily
           Product: Wine
           Version: 1.1.18
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]
                CC: [e-mail]

"default.tot" is a generally problematic file in various infinite engine games
(there are various bugs out there, generally related to character creation).

For example, for baldur's gate 2, sometimes you can have a problem trying to
save a game because of a presence of a 0-byte file called "default.tot" in the
tempsave/ directory.  Deleting it will allow a save, though the game will
create a new 0-byte default.tot file almost immediately (a more permanent hack
to fix this is to mkdir tempsave/default.tot).

Icewind Dale 2 has a problem with default.tot in which in previous versions of
wine, tryign to create a party with more than 1 character at the start will
result in a crash, related to a defaul.tot issue (in some versions of wine, an
actual error message would pop up).

Starting with 1.1.18, the issue has become drastically more severe.  *Any*
attempt at creating a new party will result in the game creating a default.tot
file, and instead of leaving it at 0-bytes, it will begin to grow it
arbitrarily while the game is stuck at the loading screen.  I've seen it go up
to 500 megabytes in size before finally doing a wineserver -k to quite the
Icewind Dale 2 process.  Doing the Baldur's Gate 2 hack (creating an empty
default.tot/ directory to block the reation of the file) lets the game get past
its original lock point, but then will lock up anew after the loading screen
finishes.

I'm currently running some regression tests to see when this bug got
introduced, so stand by.

[Bug 18101] when trying to start a new game, a file called "default.tot" starts to grow in size arbitrarily

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18101

--- Comment #1 from Austin English   2009-10-29 15:26:17 ---
Is this still an issue in current (1.1.32 or newer) wine?

[Bug 18101] when trying to start a new game, a file called "default.tot" starts to grow in size arbitrarily

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Per Christian Henden  changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Per Christian Henden   2010-07-21 12:52:22 ---
Not reproducible with wine-1.2.0-release.

I've followed Chris' instruction and created a party with two custom
characters. No crashes or other issues occurred.I suggest closing this ticket.

[Bug 18101] when trying to start a new game, a file called "default.tot" starts to grow in size arbitrarily

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--- Comment #3 from GyB  2010-11-06 05:26:32 CDT ---
Created an attachment (id=31747)
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last 15000 lines of +relay,+seh,+tid log

I'm still experiencing the issue with Wine-1.3.6: the game freezes on the
loading screen after you created a party (consisting of one or more members)
from scratch. The issue doesn't happen when you choose a pre-built party. The
default.tot file is always 0 bytes size for me.
The workaround found on the AppDb page of the game still works: you have to
create an empty directory named default.tot, inside the /temp and /tempsave
directories.

I attached a trimmed +relay,+seh,+tid log (only the last 15k lines) because the
whole log would be 500 MB uncompressed.

[Bug 18101] when trying to start a new game, a file called "default.tot" starts to grow in size arbitrarily

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--- Comment #4 from GyB  2010-11-06 07:01:14 CDT ---
Created an attachment (id=31748)
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error message

A screenshot showing the error message that the game throws, indicating that
something went wrong with that 'default.tot' file.

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--- Comment #5 from Dan Kegel  2010-11-06 12:20:57 CDT ---
15000 lines doesn't seem to be enough... try 250K
lines, and run it through rzip, that ought to compress it well.

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--- Comment #6 from GyB  2010-11-06 12:40:56 CDT ---
Created an attachment (id=31754)
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rzipped +relay,+seh,+tid log (uncompressed 32 MB)

Last 500k lines of the log.

[Bug 18101] when trying to start a new game, a file called "default.tot" starts to grow in size arbitrarily

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--- Comment #7 from Dan Kegel  2010-11-06 13:08:20 CDT ---
The zero-length default.tot looks like a dup of bug 13560.

The log shows the curious sequence

0024:Call KERNEL32.CreateFileA(011966a8 "C:\Program Files\GOG.com\Icewind
Dale
II\tempsave\default.tot",80000000,00000003,0df7e634,00000003,00000080,00000000)
ret=007fd77d
0024:Ret  KERNEL32.CreateFileA() retval=000000e8 ret=007fd77d
0024:Call KERNEL32.SetFilePointer(000000e8,00000000,00000000,00000001)
ret=007fd852
0024:Ret  KERNEL32.SetFilePointer() retval=00000000 ret=007fd852
0024:Call KERNEL32.SetFilePointer(000000e8,00000000,00000000,00000002)
ret=007fd852
0024:Ret  KERNEL32.SetFilePointer() retval=00000000 ret=007fd852
0024:Call KERNEL32.SetFilePointer(000000e8,00000000,00000000,00000000)
ret=007fd852
0024:Ret  KERNEL32.SetFilePointer() retval=00000000 ret=007fd852
0024:Call KERNEL32.SetFilePointer(000000e8,00000000,00000000,00000000)
ret=007fd852
0024:Ret  KERNEL32.SetFilePointer() retval=00000000 ret=007fd852
0024:Call KERNEL32.CloseHandle(000000e8) ret=007fd8cc
...
0024:Call KERNEL32.lstrlenA(008b9b78 "Compression Failed for File ")
ret=007fcf09

The 500K lines weren't enough to show who created the file :-)

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--- Comment #8 from GyB  2010-11-06 13:24:33 CDT ---
Created an attachment (id=31757)
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rzipped +relay log (68 MB uncompressed)

This log contains slightly more than 1 million lines, if that's still not
enough, email me Dan, and I gift you a copy of the game (available from
GoG.com).

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--- Comment #9 from GyB  2011-12-04 03:43:37 CST ---
I re-tested the bug with Wine-1.3.34 on Fedora 16: Icewind Dale 2 still crashes
at the exact same point, when creating a party.
The game becomes unresponsive and Wine prints
err:ntdll:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection section 0x75693340 "x11drv_main.c:
X11DRV_CritSection" wait timed out in thread 0046, blocked by 003a, retrying
(60 sec)

I made a strange discovery: I can't reproduce the bug if I install and run the
game on my external USB hdd. 
First I thought it has something to do with the mount options. Here's how the
partition is mounted where the game crashes:
rw,relatime,seclabel,user_xattr,barrier=1,data=ordered

The mount options on the external hdd (where the game is working):
rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,seclabel,user_xattr,acl,barrier=1,data=ordered,uhelper=udisks

Both partitions are formatted as EXT4.

I remounted the partition where the game crashes with nosuid,nodev but that
didn't help.
But what could be the problem then? All testing was done in a clean wineprefix
and with a complete game reinstall.

A possible workaround for the party creation bug in IWD2:
After you created all the characters you want, do not start the game right
away. Instead go back to the main menu, start a new game and import your newly
created characters one by one into the party. The game won't crash in this way.

[Bug 18101] when trying to start a new game, a file called "default.tot" starts to grow in size arbitrarily

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18101

--- Comment #10 from Dan Kegel  2011-12-04 09:03:05 CST ---
Could be a timing issue.  You could try reducing the number of cores
with taskset -c 1 wine ... or the like and see if that makes any difference.

[Bug 18101] when trying to start a new game, a file called "default.tot" starts to grow in size arbitrarily

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--- Comment #11 from GyB  2011-12-04 13:33:02 CST ---
(In reply to comment #10)
> Could be a timing issue.  You could try reducing the number of cores
> with taskset -c 1 wine ... or the like and see if that makes any difference.

That didn't help either. 
With 'taskset -c 0' the game hangs at the same point as before, the only
difference is that this message isn't showing up in the terminal:
err:ntdll:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection section 0x68ebe340 "x11drv_main.c:
X11DRV_CritSection" ....

[Bug 18101] when trying to start a new game, a file called "default.tot" starts to grow in size arbitrarily

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--- Comment #12 from GyB  2012-07-09 11:50:20 CDT ---
Still present in Wine 1.5.8, tested with Icewind Dale 2 Complete. Just as in my
previous test, the problem doesn't occur when I install the game on an external
usb disk.

Out of curiosity (and mainly because both Icewind Dale and Baldur's Gate use
the same Infinity game engine), I tried the patches in bug #17956 (attachment
#40936 and attachment #40937).
Guess what? The patches do fix the problem when creating a new party in IWD 2.

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--- Comment #13 from [e-mail] 2012-07-28 17:07:47 CDT ---
I tested the GoG version of "Icewind dale 2 complete" with wine 1.5.9,
default.tot were at comfortable 3.1kb after loading the first area.

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--- Comment #14 from Austin English  ---
(In reply to Goblinstomper from comment #13)
> I tested the GoG version of "Icewind dale 2 complete" with wine 1.5.9,
> default.tot were at comfortable 3.1kb after loading the first area.

Dupe.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 13560 ***

[Bug 18101] when trying to start a new game, a file called "default.tot" starts to grow in size arbitrarily

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--- Comment #15 from Austin English  ---
Closing.