[Bug 57386] New: Attempting to run The Sims 1 Complete Collection results in a loop in dbghelp.

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57386

Bug ID: 57386
           Summary: Attempting to run The Sims 1 Complete Collection
                    results in a loop in dbghelp.
           Product: Wine
           Version: 9.20
          Hardware: x86-64
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: dbghelp
          Assignee: [e-mail]
          Reporter: [e-mail]
      Distribution: ---

I'm assuming the game crashed for some reason, but attempting to run The Sims 1
Complete Collection results in no game window being made, and the following
message echoed to the console indefinitely until the game process is killed:

fixme:dbghelp:elf_search_auxv can't find symbol in module

Running with WINEDEBUG=+dbghelp shows that it's trying to load debugging
symbols but fails when it tries to load the symbol for ntdll.so!main_envp:

0120:trace:dbghelp:SymFromName (FFFFFFFF, "ntdll.so!main_envp", 0080E378)
0120:trace:dbghelp:image_locate_build_id_target checking
L"/usr/lib/debug/.build-id/90/0892727821433d4332b9bd84b5d49ad3e0735b.debug"
0120:trace:dbghelp:image_locate_build_id_target checking
??\Z:\home\ADS.CODENET\codebase.cache\debuginfod_client\900892727821433d4332b9bd84b5d49ad3e0735b\debuginfo
0120:trace:dbghelp:image_locate_build_id_target not found
0120:trace:dbghelp:image_load_debugaltlink No .gnu_debugaltlink section found
for L"ntdll.so"
0120:fixme:dbghelp:elf_search_auxv can't find symbol in module

[Bug 57386] Attempting to run The Sims 1 Complete Collection results in a loop in dbghelp.

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57386

--- Comment #1 from Rafał Mużyło  ---
...that message is kinda meaningless wrt. *why* the crash did happen.

So, what was the earlier output ?

[Bug 57386] Attempting to run The Sims 1 Complete Collection results in a loop in dbghelp.

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--- Comment #2 from Patrick Hibbs  ---
Created attachment 77358
  --> https://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=77358
Console log

Default console log.

[Bug 57386] Attempting to run The Sims 1 Complete Collection results in a loop in dbghelp.

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--- Comment #3 from Patrick Hibbs  ---
Created attachment 77359
  --> https://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=77359
WINEDEBUG=+dbghelp log.

Log with WINEDEBUG=+dbghelp.

[Bug 57386] Attempting to run The Sims 1 Complete Collection results in a loop in dbghelp.

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https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57386

--- Comment #4 from Patrick Hibbs  ---
For some additional info, I've confirmed that using `winetricks dbghelp` is a
valid workaround.

(Although it won't prevent the game from crashing, it will allow the game to
terminate like it's supposed to.)

[Bug 57386] Attempting to run The Sims 1 Complete Collection results in a loop in dbghelp.

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57386

--- Comment #5 from Rafał Mużyło  ---
OK, I've misread your initial report.

Your main problem isn't that the game crashes, but that during the crash it
goes into a loop, where it repeatedly calls dbghelp.

That's actually somewhat interesting.

The message itself still is likely meaningless - it's just a standard notice
that your version of wine was stripped of debug symbols.

Interesting part is that (if I'm reading it correctly) the game is shipped with
its debug symbols in pdb files and dbghelp tries to load those.

Hmmm..., here's an idea: if you temporarily move those pdb files from their
current location, does it crash in the same place, but without going into a
loop ?

[Bug 57386] Attempting to run The Sims 1 Complete Collection results in a loop in dbghelp.

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57386

--- Comment #6 from Patrick Hibbs  ---
(In reply to Rafał Mużyło from comment #5)
> OK, I've misread your initial report.

No biggie.
> Hmmm..., here's an idea: if you temporarily move those pdb files from their
> current location, does it crash in the same place, but without going into a
> loop ?

The game doesn't ship with any pdb files. Doing a 'find </path/to/game/dir>
-regex .*.pdb' yields no results, and doing an ls for the named file in the
log results in a no such file or directory message.

[Bug 57386] Attempting to run The Sims 1 Complete Collection results in a loop in dbghelp.

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Eric Pouech  changed:

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--- Comment #7 from Eric Pouech  ---
from a cursory look in #3:
- loading dbghelp by game to instrospect itself
- first bulk made of:
  + SymInitialize()
  + SymLoadModule (from process)
  + StackWalk (produces 10 frames or so)
  + SymCleanup()
- second bulk made of:
  + SymInitialize()
  + SymLoadModule (from process)
  + StackWalk (*** here fails at first frame ***)
  + SymCleanup()
- third bulk made of:
  + SymInitialize()
  + SymLoadModule (from process), interrupted by user

hard to get definite answers from that, but the failing StackWalk in second
bulk should be the first thing to look at

I'm only aware of an existing issue in i386 unwinding code. Could you post the
output of running this command
> winedump -x <file> | grep -i fpo

for each <file> as sims.exe, gimexrtz.dll, ijl10.dll
if by any luck that's the same issue