[Bug 7448] New: MSDN academic alliance downloader hangs

[Wine Bugs]

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7448

Summary: MSDN academic alliance downloader hangs
           Product: Wine
           Version: 0.9.30.
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: wine-kernel
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]

My university has some agreement with microsoft which lets us use their software
for free while we are registrated. One downloads a small executable (426K),
which then itself downloads the ISO file, and assemblies it.

While running it under wine it crashes a lot, I *think* when changing context
outside of the wine process (if I just click next and wait it downloads for a
while, but crashed as soon as I got out of xscreensaver, for instance).

Some useful info...

If the EXE is needed (or could help) I can upload it to a private http server of
mine, though I'm not sure of the legality of it even if I host it (say, under
webdav).

Before the first run it asked me to download the gecko engine, which I agreed to.

My wine instalation is 0.9.30 under gentoo (2.4.19-beyond3, xorg 7.2, just
recompiled under gcc 4.1.2, glibc 2.5) with sane CFLAGS "-march=pentium-m
-mtune=pentium-m -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -msse -msse2", CXXFLAGS +=
-fvisibility-inlines-hidden. Relevant USEflags are "X alsa arts cups dbus hal
jack jpeg lcms ncurses opengl oss xml -esd -ldap -nas -scanner". I can try
different combinations if it may help (say, run it without -O or with -g).

wine config is relatively unspoiled; I only installed ies4linux latest stable
version and configured the external drives with winecfg, the sound driver to
dmix and the appearance to XP.

The downloader is downloading to I:\ISOs, which is hosted in an external drive
mounted in /media/disk-1 connected by USB and in vfat format. I have no trouble
using the drive (and the downloader gets to do some percentage, say 2 or 3%
before failing). Nevertheless it also hangs using C:\temp as an output, which is
under ~ in reiser format.

In other matters... keep up the good work guys ^^