[Bug 10090] New: wineprefixcreate falsely complains "Could not load Mozilla ..."

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10090

Summary: wineprefixcreate falsely complains "Could not load
                    Mozilla..."
           Product: Wine
           Version: CVS/GIT
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: other
            Status: NEW
          Keywords: regression
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P2
         Component: wine-misc
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]

Starting with an empty .wine directory, wine complains
"Could not load Mozilla. HTML rendering will be disabled."
for no particular reason.  This is a recent phenomenon.

[Bug 10090] wineprefixcreate falsely complains "Could not load Mozilla..."

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10090

--- Comment #1 from Timo-Heikki Mäkelä   2008-03-07 07:39:29 ---
Do you still see this, Dan? How about regression testing?

[Bug 10090] wineprefixcreate falsely complains "Could not load Mozilla..."

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10090

--- Comment #2 from Dan Kegel   2008-03-07 07:46:38 ---
Yes, every time.  Don't you?

[Bug 10090] wineprefixcreate falsely complains "Could not load Mozilla..."

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10090

--- Comment #3 from Timo-Heikki Mäkelä   2008-03-07 08:14:22 ---
Could you tell precisely which version of Mozilla fails?

[Bug 10090] wineprefixcreate falsely complains "Could not load Mozilla..."

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10090

--- Comment #4 from Dan Kegel   2008-03-07 08:18:17 ---
No version.  The problem is that wineprefixcreate
is trying to use gecko before it's loaded.
The message is spurious.

Try this:
  rm -rf .wine
  wineprefixcreate

Don't you get the warning?

[Bug 10090] wineprefixcreate falsely complains "Could not load Mozilla..."

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10090

--- Comment #5 from Timo-Heikki Mäkelä   2008-03-07 09:00:32 ---
Confirming this. I do get a bunch of other errors due to my driver problems,
but also the error mentioned here.

Any idea of when this has appeared?

[Bug 10090] wineprefixcreate falsely complains "Could not load Mozilla..."

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10090

--- Comment #6 from Dan Kegel   2008-03-07 09:07:45 ---
Probably in the week just before 2007-10-19

[Bug 10090] wineprefixcreate falsely complains "Could not load Mozilla..."

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10090

Anastasius Focht  changed:

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--- Comment #7 from Anastasius Focht   2008-03-07 09:25:39 ---
Hello,

the addition of load_gecko in mshtml's DllRegisterServer introduced this
annoyance.

Either use the "silent" parameter to omit this error message or don't call
load_gecko in server registration.

quick fix:

--- snip ---

diff --git a/dlls/mshtml/nsembed.c b/dlls/mshtml/nsembed.c
index 08d13af..6868ea2 100644
--- a/dlls/mshtml/nsembed.c
+++ b/dlls/mshtml/nsembed.c
@@ -455,7 +455,7 @@ BOOL load_gecko(BOOL silent)
         if(load_wine_gecko(gre_path)
            || (install_wine_gecko(silent) && load_wine_gecko(gre_path)))
             ret = init_xpcom(gre_path);
-        else
+        else if(!silent)
            MESSAGE("Could not load Mozilla. HTML rendering will be
disabled.\n");
     }else {
         ret = pCompMgr != NULL;

--- snip ---

Regards

[Bug 10090] wineprefixcreate falsely complains "Could not load Mozilla..."

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10090

--- Comment #8 from Austin English   2008-03-07 12:28:23 ---
See also http://wiki.winehq.org/Gecko for how to always load gecko and thereby
avoid this warning.

[Bug 10090] wineprefixcreate falsely complains "Could not load Mozilla..."

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10090

--- Comment #9 from Dan Kegel   2008-03-07 12:37:45 ---
Not looking for a workaround; the error message is benign.
I'm looking for a fix that gets rid of the spurious error message.

[Bug 10090] wineprefixcreate falsely complains "Could not load Mozilla..."

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10090

--- Comment #10 from Pik Master   2008-06-05 15:34:30 ---
It is still there, running Wine with empty or non-existing .wine directory
produces this message.
Observed in Wine versions wine-1.0-rc2 and wine-1.0-rc3-37-gb4bf355

[Bug 10090] wineprefixcreate falsely complains "Could not load Mozilla..."

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10090

Jan Hoogenraad  changed:

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--- Comment #11 from Jan Hoogenraad   2008-09-22 12:16:44 ---
I was tricked into a similar experience, and filed (duplicate) bug:
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15213
The comment posted by Austin would suggest that even in non-silent mode, the
message should read 
"Tip: HTML rendering is not enabled. You need wine-gecko if you would like ti
use it."
Instead of the more threatening current message: 
"Could not load Mozilla. HTML rendering will be disabled."

[Bug 10090] wineprefixcreate falsely complains "Could not load Mozilla..."

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10090

Austin English  changed:

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--- Comment #12 from Austin English   2008-09-22 14:45:00 ---
(In reply to comment #11)
> I was tricked into a similar experience, and filed (duplicate) bug:
> http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15213
> The comment posted by Austin would suggest that even in non-silent mode, the
> message should read 
> "Tip: HTML rendering is not enabled. You need wine-gecko if you would like ti
> use it."
> Instead of the more threatening current message: 
> "Could not load Mozilla. HTML rendering will be disabled."

I sent a patch to make the warning more clear:
http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-patches/2008-September/061989.html

"HTML rendering is disabled. Install wine-gecko to enable it."

[Bug 10090] wineprefixcreate falsely complains "Could not load Mozilla..."

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10090

Austin English  changed:

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--- Comment #13 from Austin English   2009-01-18 03:46:13 ---
Removing deprecated CVS/GIT version tag. Please retest in current git. If the
bug is still present in today's wine, but was not present in some earlier
version of wine, please update version field to earliest known version of wine
that had the bug. Thanks!

[Bug 10090] wineprefixcreate falsely complains "Could not load Mozilla..."

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10090

Adys  changed:

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--- Comment #14 from Adys   2009-06-07 10:23:21 ---
(In reply to comment #13)
> Removing deprecated CVS/GIT version tag. Please retest in current git. If the
> bug is still present in today's wine, but was not present in some earlier
> version of wine, please update version field to earliest known version of wine
> that had the bug. Thanks!

Still happening, wine-1.1.23.

adys@azura:~$ WINEPREFIX=/home/adys/.wine/prefixes/tmp wineboot
wine: created the configuration directory '/home/adys/.wine/prefixes/tmp'
Could not load Mozilla. HTML rendering will be disabled.
wine: configuration in '/home/adys/.wine/prefixes/tmpp' has been updated.

[Bug 10090] wineprefixcreate falsely complains "Could not load Mozilla..."

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10090

Jacek Caban  changed:

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--- Comment #15 from Jacek Caban   2009-06-07 12:04:25 ---
It's not a false complain. We want people to use Gecko packages instead of
downloader, so the warning is valid.

[Bug 10090] wineprefixcreate falsely complains "Could not load Mozilla..."

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10090

Dmitry Timoshkov  changed:

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--- Comment #16 from Dmitry Timoshkov   2009-06-08 01:57:52 ---
Closing wontfix.