> I'm trying to use winedbg to run the direct sound regression
> tests and have two questions:
>
> Execution stops when starting the first dsound.dll thread. Is
> this normal? Is the stack trace with no symbol information
> normal?

no, because of this in your trace

Couldn't initiate DbgHelp
the only reason this fails is because dbghelp cannot get to the wine-loader in the running programm

try to set the env var WINELOADER to the {pk}loader (full path) you're using and check again

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