[Bug 21520] New: Monty Python's Complete Waste Of Time by 7th Level does not go beyond opening scene.

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21520

Summary: Monty Python's Complete Waste Of Time by 7th Level
                    does not go beyond opening scene.
           Product: Wine
           Version: 1.1.37
          Platform: x86
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: major
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]

Monty Python's Complete Waste Of Time game does not go beyond the opening scene
when started, the program just freezes. It did install correctly and seems to
start up properly under Wine. There are no errors reported when opening the
game.

[Bug 21520] Monty Python's Complete Waste Of Time by 7th Level does not go beyond opening scene.

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21520

Nikolay Sivov  changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Nikolay Sivov   2010-01-28 14:39:12 ---
That's my favourite TV show I've ever seen.

Please attach complete terminal output from start to hang.

[Bug 21520] Monty Python's Complete Waste Of Time by 7th Level does not go beyond opening scene.

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21520

--- Comment #2 from Jeremiah Mosser   2010-01-31 08:34:54 ---
I haven't changed anything since I installed, but now I just get an error
saying "Can't Find herald.bin" then the program exits. What I found is that
"herald.bin" is a file located on the cd among other bin files and not
installed in the program directory. What I can't seem to figure out is that the
program or wine is not looking for the cd, it's acting as if the cd is not
mounted.

[Bug 21520] Monty Python's Complete Waste Of Time by 7th Level does not go beyond opening scene.

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21520

--- Comment #3 from Jeremiah Mosser   2010-01-31 08:39:37 ---
As far as getting a terminal output, how do I do that?

[Bug 21520] Monty Python's Complete Waste Of Time by 7th Level does not go beyond opening scene.

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21520

--- Comment #4 from Vitaliy Margolen   2010-01-31 11:01:02 ---
http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#get_log

[Bug 21520] Monty Python's Complete Waste Of Time by 7th Level does not go beyond opening scene.

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21520

--- Comment #5 from Jeremiah Mosser   2010-01-31 16:01:23 ---
Ok, so I ran wine python.exe &> log.txt from cronsole, it did create the
log.txt but was empty as if no errors to report but I still got the "Can't Find
herold.bin" error. I also ran WINEDEBUG=+relay,+seh,+tid wine python.exe &>
/tmp/output.txt and got the same result and empty output log with the same
error as above.

[Bug 21520] Monty Python's Complete Waste Of Time by 7th Level does not go beyond opening scene.

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21520

--- Comment #6 from Austin English  2011-10-02 11:45:37 CDT ---
This is your friendly reminder that there has been no bug activity for 1 year.
Is this still an issue in current (1.3.29 or newer) wine?

[Bug 21520] Monty Python's Complete Waste Of Time by 7th Level does not go beyond opening scene.

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21520

Bruno Jesus  changed:

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--- Comment #7 from Bruno Jesus  2011-10-09 13:03:05 CDT ---
The game does not start either to me in 1.3.29 complaining that a file
herald.bin can't be opened (as in comment 2). What WINEDEBUG flags can be used
to get everyfile the app is trying to open? I tried shell but it was not.

The installer can't create it's icons but that's another bug:
fixme:shell:Dde_OnExecute stub: L"Progman" L"[ShowGroup(7th Level,2)]"
fixme:shell:Dde_OnExecute stub: L"Progman" L"[CreateGroup("7th Level")]"
fixme:shell:Dde_OnExecute stub: L"Progman" L"[CreateGroup(7th Level)]"

[Bug 21520] Monty Python's Complete Waste Of Time by 7th Level does not go beyond opening scene.

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21520

Louis Lenders  changed:

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--- Comment #8 from Louis Lenders  2011-10-09 14:21:54 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #7)
> The game does not start either to me in 1.3.29 complaining that a file
> herald.bin can't be opened (as in comment 2). What WINEDEBUG flags can be used
> to get everyfile the app is trying to open?

WINEDEBUG=+file i guess

[Bug 21520] Monty Python's Complete Waste Of Time by 7th Level does not go beyond opening scene.

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21520

--- Comment #9 from Bruno Jesus  2011-10-09 15:11:46 CDT ---
Created attachment 36792
  --> http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=36792
trimmed WINEDEBUG=+file

Indeed, thanks Louis.

This is the suspicious line:

warn:file:OpenFile (C:\7thLevel\Python\herald.bin\herald.bin): return =
HFILE_ERROR error= 2

Something somewhere somehow is appending the file name twice?

[Bug 21520] Monty Python's Complete Waste Of Time by 7th Level does not go beyond opening scene.

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21520

--- Comment #10 from Bruno Jesus  2011-11-19 10:43:28 CST ---
Still present in 1.3.33. I had to copy the missing files (including herald.bin)
manually to get the same behavior from comment 1. The app freezes after the
intro screen.

[Bug 21520] Monty Python's Complete Waste Of Time by 7th Level does not go beyond opening scene.

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21520

--- Comment #11 from Austin English  2013-12-05 21:51:01 CST ---
This is your friendly reminder that there has been no bug activity for 2 years.
Is this still an issue in current (1.7.7 or newer) wine? If so, please attach
the terminal output in 1.7.7 (see http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#get_log).

[Bug 21520] Monty Python's Complete Waste Of Time by 7th Level does not go beyond opening scene.

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21520

--- Comment #12 from Bruno Jesus  ---
Still present in wine 1.7.11.

[Bug 21520] Monty Python's Complete Waste Of Time by 7th Level does not go beyond opening scene.

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21520

--- Comment #13 from Austin English  ---
Is this still an issue in current (1.7.36 or newer) wine? If so, please attach
terminal output.

[Bug 21520] Monty Python's Complete Waste Of Time by 7th Level does not go beyond opening scene.

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Michael McGuire  changed:

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--- Comment #14 from Michael McGuire  ---
I installed this on XP and the same thing happens. The shortcut created though
runs with herald.bin as an argument: "python.exe d:\python\herald.bin".
Starting in wine like that works, more or less (I had to use a virtual desktop
to see anything and there's sound issues: skipping with a whole lot of
"err:winmm:MMSYSTDRV_WaveOut_Map16To32W Size of buffer has been increased from
124 to 8192, keeping initial value").

I guess the bug here is bug 9159 about creating the shortcuts; it looks like
there's a fix for that that hasn't been committed yet.

I'll be submitting a test report on appdb with this info.

[Bug 21520] Monty Python' s Complete Waste Of Time by 7th Level does not go beyond opening scene.

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Austin English  changed:

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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED

--- Comment #15 from Austin English  ---
(In reply to Michael McGuire from comment #14)
> I installed this on XP and the same thing happens. The shortcut created
> though runs with herald.bin as an argument: "python.exe
> d:\python\herald.bin". Starting in wine like that works, more or less (I had
> to use a virtual desktop to see anything and there's sound issues: skipping
> with a whole lot of "err:winmm:MMSYSTDRV_WaveOut_Map16To32W Size of buffer
> has been increased from 124 to 8192, keeping initial value").

Sounds invalid then (and the shortcut issue is now fixed). Thanks for testing.

[Bug 21520] Monty Python' s Complete Waste Of Time by 7th Level does not go beyond opening scene.

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21520

André H.  changed:

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--- Comment #16 from André H.  ---
closing invalid