Mike Hearn wrote:
Using the latest Wine release, I see this error repeated over and over:
err:ntdll:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection section 0x70460350 "?" wait timed out, retrying (60 sec) tid=08436988
when clicking on the CML demo at Adobes SVG demo site. Google indicates that this error can be caused by all sorts of things, one guy said it was due to Wine being a lot slower than Windows.
So, could anybody write an explanation of what this error means?
This error means that a thread tries to acquire a critical section lock that is never released.
Some critical section are initialized either staticaly with CRITICAL_SECTION_INIT wich set a name to the lock or dynamicaly with InitializeCriticalSection which set the name to NULL (printed as ? wich doesn't help :-( ).
I think, It would be cool to have all locks named and thus make debugging and bug report easier. It's not a hard task but names must be meaningfull. :-)
Christian.