The command
wineconsole --backend=curses cmd
hangs with the following error message for 1.3.8:
err:ntdll:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection section 0x7ee17dec "?" wait timed out in thread 0065, blocked by 0000, retrying (60 sec) err:ntdll:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection section 0x7ee17dec "?" wait timed out in thread 004d, blocked by 0000, retrying (60 sec)
There are no such issues for the default wineconsole backend, but I have always preferred using the curses backend because cut and paste was available for it. That backend worked fine (according to my notes) for wine-1.1.41.
I built wine-1.3.8 on my Debian testing box a week ago, but saved the output of all build steps. The configure stage had the following curses-related messages:
software@raven> grep curses configure.out checking curses.h usability... yes checking curses.h presence... yes checking for curses.h... yes checking ncurses.h usability... yes checking ncurses.h presence... yes checking for ncurses.h... yes checking for -lncurses... libncurses.so.5
These seem fine, and all curses-related output of the "make depend", "make", and "make install" steps seem fine as well. I am generally pretty happy with wine-1.3.8 except for this one curses backend regression.
Can others confirm this issue?
Is there some workaround such as using a different version of ncurses? Here are the curses-related packages I have installed at the moment on Debian testing:
irwin@raven> dpkg --list |grep curse ii lib32ncurses5 5.7+20100313-4 shared libraries for terminal handling (32-bit) ii lib32ncurses5-dev 5.7+20100313-4 developer's libraries for ncurses (32-bit) ii libncurses5 5.7+20100313-4 shared libraries for terminal handling ii libncurses5-dev 5.7+20100313-4 developer's libraries and docs for ncurses ii libncursesw5 5.7+20100313-4 shared libraries for terminal handling (wide character support) ii ncurses-base 5.7+20100313-4 basic terminal type definitions ii ncurses-bin 5.7+20100313-4 terminal-related programs and man pages
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