[Bug 18873] New: Civilization IV beyond the sword crashing at startup

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18873

Summary: Civilization IV beyond the sword crashing at startup
           Product: Wine
           Version: 1.1.23
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: critical
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]

Civilization IV beyond the sword is crashing at startup after message display
"Init XML(cached)"
For me it looks like a regression as I have just shifted from wine 1.1.22 to
1.1.23 and it worked fine before my Ubuntu upgrade

I am currently compiling wine to try to do some regression tests as you
indicate on the site. I already post the description to see if somebody else
has the same problem

[Bug 18873] Civilization IV beyond the sword crashing at startup

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18873

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[Bug 18873] Civilization IV beyond the sword crashing at startup in 1.1.23

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            Summary|Civilization IV beyond the  |Civilization IV beyond the
                   |sword crashing at startup   |sword crashing at startup
                   |                            |in 1.1.23

--- Comment #1 from [e-mail]  2009-06-09 14:57:30 ---
Hi again

I am afraid my machine would be too slow for regression tests as compilation
takes 40 minutes. I hoped subsequent compilations would be faster but it does
not seem to.

[Bug 18873] Civilization IV beyond the sword crashing at startup in 1.1.23

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18873

--- Comment #2 from [e-mail]  2009-06-09 15:27:48 ---
Created an attachment (id=21699)
 --> (http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=21699)
log traces

It should not be official 1.1.23 traces but traces generated during regression
check process. I hope they should look the same

[Bug 18873] Civilization IV beyond the sword crashing at startup in 1.1.23

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18873

--- Comment #3 from [e-mail]  2009-06-09 16:10:15 ---
I finally succeeded in finishing regression tests. Unfortunately it gave
nothing it did not converge. I think I have to investigate further about what
is wrong, and maybe re-install my wine environment

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[Bug 18873] Civilization IV beyond the sword crashing at startup

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18873

--- Comment #4 from Dmitry Timoshkov   2009-06-09 23:15:30 ---
Is there any reason you've installed native msxml3? Also do 'cd' to the app's
directory before running it with Wine.

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--- Comment #5 from [e-mail]  2009-06-10 00:55:08 ---
(In reply to comment #4)
> Is there any reason you've installed native msxml3? Also do 'cd' to the app's
> directory before running it with Wine.

Hello Dmitry
What I did is:
* installing wine
* performed some winetricks required by the game. I had a look back on the app
page: I should have followed the line
Had to use certain winetricks. msxml3, dotnet11, corefonts, plus certain
directx dll files.

all worked fine until this Ubuntu uupdate.
Thank you for your suggestion running program from application directory. I did
it from wine directory. It does not work, but with regression test process, I
do not know at all which compiled version I have

I will re-test it later, after work

Thank you for your help

[Bug 18873] Civilization IV beyond the sword crashing at startup

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--- Comment #6 from [e-mail]  2009-06-10 15:37:41 ---
I tried to re-install the software but installer did not work

Finally I decided to re-install all

I have not finished yet, I will continue next week

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--- Comment #7 from Juan Lang   2009-06-11 12:13:06 ---
*** Bug 18892 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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--- Comment #8 from Ville Aakko   2009-06-17 05:13:27 ---
Hi,

I can confirm this bug in Civilization IV 1-DVD version (just plain Civ IV, no
expansions). The ouput I get is very similar to the one pasted here, and also
the bug description matches. The last working version seems to be 1.1.21 (not
1.1.22, but maybe the original reporter upgraded straight from 1.1.21 to .23
but tought he was upgrading from .22?). Well, at least it doesn't work in
1.1.23 here.

I might help in regression testing, since I've done that before and I've got a
reasonably fast machine to compile. But I'll be away until next week, so I
won't be able to do it until then.

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--- Comment #9 from Andreas Schneider   2009-07-05 12:53:12 ---
I just have a mobile system, so this would take much time and I never tried a
regression test.
Before I start, how much time do I have to spend (I'm asking 'cause I have to
go to work and also need my system for working).

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Austin English  changed:

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--- Comment #10 from Austin English   2009-07-05 21:19:02 ---
(In reply to comment #9)
> I just have a mobile system, so this would take much time and I never tried a
> regression test.
> Before I start, how much time do I have to spend (I'm asking 'cause I have to
> go to work and also need my system for working).

Depends on your system specs/how many versions you need to compile. Using
ccache helps quite a bit. You don't have to be there when it's compiling, so
you can start the regression test, go watch TV, then come back, test, repeat.

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Austin English  changed:

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--- Comment #11 from Andreas Schneider   2009-07-06 06:10:49 ---
ok, I'll give it a try,
I think I will start today or tomorrow.

I'm not sure which version was the last working version. For me the last
working version was 1.1.19 pre compiled version for opensuse (from the wine
repository), but it sounds like later versions (1.1.21) were working too. I got
several binary packages of wine for my opensuse system, I'll start testing
which version was working, but I'm really sure that the last one was 1.1.19.

Then after downloading the current wine sources and compiling, I would do
something like this:
git bisect start
git bisect good wine-1.1.19
git bisect bad wine-1.1.20

and then I'll do the "git bisect good/bad" thing, like described in the
Regression Test tutorial right?

[Bug 18873] Civilization IV beyond the sword crashing at startup

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--- Comment #12 from Austin English   2009-07-06 11:04:00 ---
(In reply to comment #11)
> ok, I'll give it a try,
> I think I will start today or tomorrow.
>
> I'm not sure which version was the last working version. For me the last
> working version was 1.1.19 pre compiled version for opensuse (from the wine
> repository), but it sounds like later versions (1.1.21) were working too. I got
> several binary packages of wine for my opensuse system, I'll start testing
> which version was working, but I'm really sure that the last one was 1.1.19.
>
> Then after downloading the current wine sources and compiling, I would do
> something like this:
> git bisect start
> git bisect good wine-1.1.19
> git bisect bad wine-1.1.20
>
> and then I'll do the "git bisect good/bad" thing, like described in the
> Regression Test tutorial right?

Yes. It may be helpful to test your compiled 1.1.19 version before testing,
just in case:
git reset --hard wine-1.1.19
./configure && make depend && make
test your app. If it works:
git reset --hard origin
git bisect start
git bisect good wine-1.1.19
git bisect bad wine-1.1.20
./configure && make depend && make
test app here
git bisect good/bad
rebuild/retest

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--- Comment #13 from Andreas Schneider   2009-07-13 14:49:49 ---
I can't get it compiled ;-(
I don't find the missing package.

.....
cdrom.c: In function ‘CDROM_SyncCache’:                                         
cdrom.c:396: error: storage size of ‘hdr’ isn’t known                 
cdrom.c:397: error: storage size of ‘entry’ isn’t known
....
make[2]: *** [cdrom.o] Fehler 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/mrplanlos/wine-git/dlls/ntdll'
make[1]: *** [ntdll] Fehler 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mrplanlos/wine-git/dlls'
make: *** [dlls] Fehler 2

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--- Comment #14 from Andreas Schneider   2009-07-14 06:08:38 ---
sorry, I forgot to mention:
I'm on a opensuse 11.1

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--- Comment #15 from Andreas Schneider   2009-07-22 06:06:23 ---
(In reply to comment #14)
> sorry, I forgot to mention:
> I'm on a opensuse 11.1

Can anyone help here? Yesterday I tried it again and still seem to miss a
depending package.

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--- Comment #16 from Rosanne DiMesio   2010-06-08 09:42:39 ---
Civ IV BTS starts up fine for me in 1.2-rc2 on openSUSE 11.1.

Is this still an issue for you in current (1.2-rc2 or newer) Wine?

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--- Comment #17 from [e-mail]  2010-06-23 19:36:49 ---
I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 and it was working fine for me in 1.2-rc2, but the
fonts were pixellated.  That regression/bug was fixed in 1.2-rc3 (as per the
release notes), but at that point I couldn't get Civ4 BtS to launch anymore.

It still won't launch in 1.2-rc4.  Maybe rc5?

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--- Comment #18 from Xavier Vachon   2010-07-09 21:14:39 ---
In current git (1.2-rc7), I am able to start Civilization 4 Beyond The Sword
and begin a game. Msxml3 and msxml4 had to be installed with winetricks to
avoid this bug : http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8107

The original poster should retest.

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--- Comment #19 from Xavier Vachon  2010-10-21 10:14:56 CDT ---
I think that this is a dupe of this :
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8107 . It is known that each part of
Civilization 4 has dependencies on MSXML.

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--- Comment #20 from Austin English  2010-11-25 15:04:07 CST ---
Can you try this in git or 1.3.8 when it's released (should be tomorrow)? Does
the demo have the same problem?
http://download.cnet.com/Civilization-IV-demo/3000-7489_4-10465206.html

You also need to 'cd' to the directory first.

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--- Comment #21 from [e-mail] 2011-08-10 07:34:04 CDT ---
I download demo here
http://www.fileplanet.com/179032/170000/fileinfo/Civilization-4:-Beyond-the-...
No crash at startup in clean prefix (even without d3dx9_26 msxml3). WINE
1.3.26.

[Bug 18873] Civilization IV beyond the sword crashing at startup

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--- Comment #22 from [e-mail] 2011-08-10 07:40:10 CDT ---
> No crash at startup in clean prefix (even without d3dx9_26 msxml3). WINE

1.3.26.

Also according to reports
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=16878 retail
version run fine too.

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--- Comment #23 from Austin English  2011-08-10 13:06:21 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #22)
> > No crash at startup in clean prefix (even without d3dx9_26 msxml3). WINE
>
> 1.3.26.
>
> Also according to reports
> http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=16878 retail
> version run fine too.

Fixed.

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Alexandre Julliard  changed:

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--- Comment #24 from Alexandre Julliard  2011-08-26 13:24:39 CDT ---
Closing bugs fixed in 1.3.27.