[Bug 35481] New: Failure to install a Windows program and apparently a political issue

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35481

Bug ID: 35481
           Summary: Failure to install a Windows program and apparently a
                    political issue
           Product: Wine
           Version: unspecified
          Hardware: x86
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
          Assignee: [e-mail]
          Reporter: [e-mail]
    Classification: Unclassified

Created attachment 47367
  --> http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=47367
screen print of the error message

After successfully installing wine 1.6.1 from the Mageia 4 RC repository to an
Asus netbook and installing a Windows program from a 1996 cover CD, I decided
that I needed a larger drive an more RAM.

When both were installed and the system re-installed from the same DVD, I again
installed wine 1.6.1 (including qtwine version 1.0 and again attempted to
install the same program.

It failed with two results, an error window displaying:

"The program winevdm.exe encountered a serious problem and needs to close.
We are sorry for the inconvenience."

but more surprisingly, the browser came up with this url.

http://q4wine.brezblock.org.ua/documentation/q4wine_en_gb/05-first-steps.htm...

This is a political message. Does this mean wine is now held hostage?

I was able to reproduce this effect a second time.

[Bug 35481] Failure to install a Windows program and apparently a political issue

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35481

--- Comment #1 from Ken Thomases  ---
I suspect that URL comes from the Windows program you were trying to run,
perhaps shortly before it crashed. Given the content of the web page vs. the
URL itself, it seems that it used to have Wine-related content (not from the
Wine project but from the developer of that Windows software) but the developer
felt the need to change it to a political message.

I googled for "q4wine" since that's mentioned in the URL.  That lead to
http://sourceforge.net/projects/q4wine/ which seems like a legitimate project
for use with Wine.  If you follow the "q4wine Web Site" link in the
Description, you are taken to http://q4wine.brezblock.org.ua/ which shows that
same political message (since it's the same host as the original suspect URL).

[Bug 35481] Failure to install a Windows program and apparently a political issue

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35481

--- Comment #2 from Bruno Jesus  ---
When you first run q4wine it shows that page in the browser. I think it's not
related to the application. q4wine is a third party app to create wine
prefixes.

[Bug 35481] Failure to install a Windows program and apparently a political issue

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--- Comment #3 from Bruno Jesus  ---
https://web.archive.org/web/20130517075947/http://q4wine.brezblock.org.ua/do...

[Bug 35481] Failure to install a Windows program and apparently a political issue

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35481

--- Comment #4 from Alan Secker  ---
The web page has been confirmed as related to qtwine and not to wine itself.
The error though has been reproduced. The terminal output follows:

[root@localhost PCMDEC96]# wine go.exe
fixme:toolhelp:InterruptRegister16 (0000, 0x11cf00ba), stub.
err:ntdll:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection section 0x7ea88780 "syslevel.c:
Win16Mutex" wait timed out in thread 0027, blocked by 0025, retrying (60 sec)
err:ntdll:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection section 0x7bcc7ba0 "loader.c:
loader_section" wait timed out in thread 0025, blocked by 0027, retrying (60
sec)
wine: Critical section 7bcc7ba0 wait failed at address 0x7bc36bb1 (thread
0025), starting debugger...
Unhandled exception: wait failed on critical section 0x7bcc7ba0 in 32-bit code
(0x7bc36bb1).
err:seh:raise_exception Unhandled exception code c0000194 flags 0 addr
0x7bc36bb1
Process of pid=0023 has terminated
No process loaded, cannot execute 'echo Modules:'
Cannot get info on module while no process is loaded
No process loaded, cannot execute 'echo Threads:'
process  tid      prio (all id:s are in hex)
0000000e services.exe
        0000001e    0
        0000001d    0
        00000014    0
        00000010    0
        0000000f    0
00000012 winedevice.exe
        0000001a    0
        00000019    0
        00000017    0
        00000013    0
0000001b plugplay.exe
        00000020    0
        0000001f    0
        0000001c    0
00000021 explorer.exe
        00000026    0
        00000022    0
winedbg: Internal crash at 0x7ed66424
[root@localhost PCMDEC96]#

[Bug 35481] Failure to install Windows programs

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35481

Alan Secker  changed:

What    |Removed                     |Added
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            Summary|Failure to install a        |Failure to install Windows
                   |Windows program and         |programs
                   |apparently a political      |
                   |issue                       |

[Bug 35481] Failure to install Windows programs

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--- Comment #5 from Bruno Jesus  ---
What is the name of the program? Is it legally available anywhere for download?

[Bug 35481] Failure to install Windows programs

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--- Comment #6 from Alan Secker  ---
(In reply to comment #5)
> What is the name of the program? Is it legally available anywhere for
> download?

The program I needed was on a cover CD supplied with PC Magazine December
1996.It could not be installed except through the general menu system on the
CD. That had to be attained by launching GO.EXE. That did indeed come up but
when I selected the program that I wanted - COMMENCE.EXE and clicked 'Install'
it failed with the error message shown earlier.

I would repeat that when I tried it using the original SSD on the Asus PC901
netbook, it installed flawlessly. Same operating system. Same version.

As for legality, the publishers website is http://www.commence.com/. Being a US
developer, I believe that they have 70 years copyright protection. The 'help'
dialog claims copyright 1988-1996 whatever that means.

[Bug 35481] Failure to install Windows programs

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Alan Secker  changed:

What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED
         Resolution|---                         |INVALID

--- Comment #7 from Alan Secker  ---
I have since found the underlying program (commence.exe) on the CD and have
successfully installed it, followed by MSWorks, so I think this was a storm in
a teacup. I am marking it RESOLVED.

[Bug 35481] Failure to install Windows programs

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Austin English  changed:

What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|RESOLVED                    |CLOSED

--- Comment #8 from Austin English  ---
Closing.