[Bug 38803] New: wine fails with the ElsterFormular installer, the vanilla wine version installs properly

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38803

Bug ID: 38803
           Summary: wine fails with the ElsterFormular installer, the
                    vanilla wine version installs properly
           Product: Wine
           Version: unspecified
          Hardware: x86
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
          Assignee: [e-mail]
          Reporter: [e-mail]
      Distribution: ---

I have the following problem with Fedora-22 wine:

Downloading the installer for the german tax program
(https://download.elster.de/download/2011/ElsterFormular-16.1.20150424p.exe)
and then starting the exec fails with the actual Fedora 22 wine version:
Getting a popup with an error message: "Installer payload initialization
failed. This is likely due to an incomplete or corrupt download file"

But the message isn't correct: The installer exec proceeds under Win7, or with
the actual Wine Vanilla Version 1.7.43 (downloaded from winehq.org).

I filed a fedora bugzilla
(https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1224490).

Today I got the advice from the fedora/RedHat bugzilla team to  register this
bug at wine-stating bugilla.

[Bug 38803] wine fails with the ElsterFormular installer, the vanilla wine version installs properly

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38803

--- Comment #1 from JB  ---
Forwarding this bug to https://bugs.wine-staging.com/show_bug.cgi?id=411

[Bug 38803] ElsterFormular 16.1 installer fails, reporting 'Installer payload initialization failed. This is likely due to an incomplete or corrupt downloaded file.'

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38803

Anastasius Focht  changed:

What    |Removed                     |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
           Keywords|                            |download, Installer
             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED
                URL|                            |https://download.elster.de/
                   |                            |download/2011/ElsterFormula
                   |                            |r-16.1.20150424p.exe
                 CC|                            |[e-mail]
            Version|unspecified                 |1.7.43
         Resolution|---                         |INVALID
            Summary|wine fails with the         |ElsterFormular 16.1
                   |ElsterFormular installer,   |installer fails, reporting
                   |the vanilla wine version    |'Installer payload
                   |installs properly           |initialization failed. This
                   |                            |is likely due to an
                   |                            |incomplete or corrupt
                   |                            |downloaded file.'

--- Comment #2 from Anastasius Focht  ---
Hello JB,

I can't reproduce this with Wine 1.7.45 in a clean WINEPREFIX.

https://bugs.wine-staging.com/show_bug.cgi?id=411

Unlikely a staging bug.

A run with 'BITROCKDEBUG=1' environment variable set should give more details.

Looking at the trace log in staging bug tracker it seems you have an unusal
mountpoint/symbolic link setup.
The app traverses from the root directory (drive 'Z:') and finds the payload
(itself) again but now in seemingly entirely different path which confuses it
(Tcl virtual filesystem).

"Z:/home/backes/Desktop/DL/ElsterFormular-16.1.20150424p.exe/<vfs>"

vs.

"Z:/disk2/home/backes/Downloads//ElsterFormular-16.1.20150424p.exe/<vfs>"

(find -> sort order!)

I wouldn't be surprised if there were more apps/games/installers not working in
the past due to your broken setup.

Anyway, resolving 'invalid' here.

$ sha1sum ElsterFormular-16.1.20150424p.exe 
cd903affaac75a25120f66a923b63c6b4567c3fd  ElsterFormular-16.1.20150424p.exe

$ du -sh ElsterFormular-16.1.20150424p.exe 
101M    ElsterFormular-16.1.20150424p.exe

$ wine --version
wine-1.7.45-195-gda5151f

Regards

[Bug 38803] ElsterFormular 16.1 installer fails, reporting 'Installer payload initialization failed. This is likely due to an incomplete or corrupt downloaded file.'

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38803

--- Comment #3 from JB  ---
I could solve the problem:

Reason: 1. /home was a symlink to /disk2/home
        2. ~/Desktop/DL was a symlink to /home/backes/downloads, and
           /home/backes/downloads was mounted on /dev/sdc6

I reconfigured my filesystem so /home now is directly mounted /dev/dev/sdb1,
and /dev/sdc6 is monted to /downloads, and the links ~/Desktop/DL now points
directly to /downloads.

After this reconfiguration, the installer ElsterFormular-16.1.20150424p.exe
runs flawlessly.

BTW: Obviously has problems to relove symlinks properly :-(

Thanks for your support.

Joachim Backes

[Bug 38803] ElsterFormular 16.1 installer fails, reporting 'Installer payload initialization failed. This is likely due to an incomplete or corrupt downloaded file.'

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38803

--- Comment #4 from JB  ---
Some change: I meant: "BTW: Obviously wine has problems to resolve symlinks
properly :-("

[Bug 38803] ElsterFormular 16.1 installer fails, reporting 'Installer payload initialization failed. This is likely due to an incomplete or corrupt downloaded file.'

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38803

Austin English  changed:

What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|RESOLVED                    |CLOSED

--- Comment #5 from Austin English  ---
Closing.