http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19613
Summary: Installation of Total Annihilation original does not run to completion Product: Wine Version: 1.1.26 Platform: PC OS/Version: Linux Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: minor Priority: P2 Component: -unknown AssignedTo: wine-bugs@winehq.org ReportedBy: hughperkins@gmail.com
Installation of Total Annihilation original does not run to completion.
An error appears at the end "Could not open readme.txt". Perhaps it is looking in the wrong place?
The intallation completes for the most part: the game runs. However this bug has two consequences: - the start menu icons are not created, so the game has to be launched from the commandline, and the images are not obviously available anywhere to create one's own start menu icons (at least: they don't look beautiful) - the Core Contingency expansion cannot be installed from the setup.exe provided, because it says that ta is not installed, which can feasibly be explained by certain registry entries being unavailable, since hte original installation did not run to completion
This bug is fairly minor: it does not prevent the game being played, and there are workarounds available (fairly easy once you know / have documented them) to install core contingency, but on the other hand my gut feeling is it might be fairly easy to fix, since it could be just a relative path being used where an absolute path is needed, or some other bug related to paths being joined together not quite in the way that was intended.
The bug does mean that people may not be able to install Core Contingency without checking the how-to in the total annihilation database.
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19613
Austin English austinenglish@gmail.com changed:
What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Keywords| |Installer
--- Comment #1 from Austin English austinenglish@gmail.com 2009-08-07 03:52:15 --- Terminal output?
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--- Comment #2 from Hugh Perkins hughperkins@gmail.com 2009-08-07 06:10:38 --- Created an attachment (id=22884) --> (http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=22884) terminal output of running install
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--- Comment #3 from Hugh Perkins hughperkins@gmail.com 2009-08-07 06:12:41 --- Exact message in install gui is:
"Install failed!
"Unable to find readme.txt"
Command-line trace attached as "terminal output of running install". It doesn't show anything at all. The messages you can see almost all occurred before the installation gui even appeared, just in prefix initialization.
Using wine 1.1.26, from ubuntu launchpad repositories, running on ubuntu jaunty.
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--- Comment #4 from Austin English austinenglish@gmail.com 2009-08-07 11:45:08 --- (In reply to comment #3)
Exact message in install gui is:
"Install failed!
"Unable to find readme.txt"
Command-line trace attached as "terminal output of running install". It doesn't show anything at all. The messages you can see almost all occurred before the installation gui even appeared, just in prefix initialization.
Using wine 1.1.26, from ubuntu launchpad repositories, running on ubuntu jaunty.
Does using: user@701:~/Pictures$ WINEPREFIX=/tmp/junk/ta wine D:\SETUP.EXE instead of: user@701:~/Pictures$ WINEPREFIX=/tmp/junk/ta wine /cdrom/SETUP.EXE
help? Adjust D: to whatever you have the cd drive mapped to in winecfg.
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--- Comment #5 from Austin English austinenglish@gmail.com 2009-08-07 11:46:38 --- (In reply to comment #4)
(In reply to comment #3)
Exact message in install gui is:
"Install failed!
"Unable to find readme.txt"
Command-line trace attached as "terminal output of running install". It doesn't show anything at all. The messages you can see almost all occurred before the installation gui even appeared, just in prefix initialization.
Using wine 1.1.26, from ubuntu launchpad repositories, running on ubuntu jaunty.
Does using: user@701:~/Pictures$ WINEPREFIX=/tmp/junk/ta wine D:\SETUP.EXE
make that wine start D:\SETUP.EXE
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--- Comment #6 from Hugh Perkins hughperkins@gmail.com 2009-08-07 20:50:22 --- Ok, so I got a different error this time, "Install failed! Unable to find install\revision.gpf". I've seen that error before; I felt at the time maybe it was because I was using a path that was too long?
Let's go through my actions in detail: - I used cdemu to load ta cd1 in a virtual drive (simply because it mounts the cd as /media/TOTAL ANNIL rather than if I mount it by hand it ends up in /cdom) - I ran WINEPREFIX=/tmp/junk/ta winecfg , and checked the letter of the cd drive (D:) - I tried running WINEPREFIX=/tmp/junk/ta wine D:\SETUP.EXE , but it crashed with a page fault at address 0x7bc4442e (thread 0009) - So, in the spirit of making it easy for people to follow instructions I might write later, I ran the setup from winefile:
- WINEPREFIX=/tmp/junk/ta winefile - in winefile, changed into D: - double-clicked on 'SETUP.EXE' - setup launched just fine - I clicked on 'regular install' - the installation ran until the message 'unable to find install\revision.gpf'
Where is install\revision.gpf? Looking at the contents of the cd, it is at 'D:\Install\revision.gpf', with an upper-case 'I'. Maybe it's looking for 'install' and not finding 'Install'?
By the way I had a look for readme.txt. There is a 'README.txt', with uppercase README, lowercase txt, at D:\README.txt, ie in the root of the cd. There is no readme.txt at all, in whatever upper/lower case, in the ta installation target directory itself.
Maybe it's something to do with upper/lower case?
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--- Comment #7 from Hugh Perkins hughperkins@gmail.com 2009-08-07 20:54:41 --- (By the way, note that whatever the file not found - install\revision.gpf , or readme.txt , the installation completes more or less, except that icons are not created, and the Core Contingency expansion installation refuses to install, because it thinks that TA Original hasn't been installed yet.)
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Hugh Perkins hughperkins@gmail.com changed:
What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|UNCONFIRMED |RESOLVED Resolution| |FIXED
--- Comment #8 from Hugh Perkins hughperkins@gmail.com 2009-08-09 01:18:12 --- Fixed in wine 1.1.27, although the icons are still not created, but the installation no longer crashes in hte middle, and the Core Contingency expansion installer recognizes that ta is installed now.
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Alexandre Julliard julliard@winehq.org changed:
What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|RESOLVED |CLOSED
--- Comment #9 from Alexandre Julliard julliard@winehq.org 2009-08-21 12:56:30 --- Closing bugs fixed in 1.1.28.
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