[Bug 18927] Need For Speed: Undercover fails to install (msiexec crash)

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18927

Anastasius Focht <focht at gmx.net> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
             Status|CLOSED                      |RESOLVED
                 CC|                            |focht at gmx.net
          Component|-unknown                    |msi
           Platform|x86-64                      |Other
            Version|unspecified                 |1.1.23
         Resolution|ABANDONED                   |FIXED
            Summary|Unable to install Need For  |Need For Speed: Undercover
                   |Speed Undercover, msiexec   |fails to install (msiexec
                   |crash                       |crash)

--- Comment #4 from Anastasius Focht <focht at gmx.net> 2011-06-16 07:41:18 CDT ---
Hello,

received that game on original media for testing.
The installer suffers from bug 12116 ("Progress bar does not appear during
installation") but appears to install everything fine, albeit slow (~30
minutes).

Game protection:

--- snip ---
-=[ ProtectionID v0.6.4.0 JULY]=-
(c) 2003-2010 CDKiLLER & TippeX
Build 07/08/10-17:57:05
Ready...

Scanning -> Z:\home\focht\.wine\drive_c\Program Files\EA Games\Need for Speed
Undercover\nfs.exe
File Type : 32-Bit Exe (Subsystem : Win CUI / 3), Size : 16151824 (0F67510h)
Byte(s)
-> File Appears to be Digitally Signed @ Offset 0F66000h, size : 01510h / 05392
byte(s)
[File Heuristics] -> Flag : 00000000000000000000000000000101 (0x00000005)
[!] SecuROM Detected - Version 07.38.0012
[!] Possible CD/DVD-Key or Serial Check -> CDKey
[CompilerDetect] -> Visual C++ 8.0 (Visual Studio 2005)
- Scan Took : 0.198 Second(s)

Scanning -> Z:\home\focht\.wine\drive_c\Program Files\EA Games\Need for Speed
Undercover\paul.dll
File Type : 32-Bit Dll (Subsystem : Win GUI / 2), Size : 262144 (040000h)
Byte(s)
[File Heuristics] -> Flag : 00000000000000001000000000000000 (0x00008000)
[!] SecuROM Modified PA Module Detected
[!] Possible CD/DVD-Key or Serial Check -> registration code
[CompilerDetect] -> Visual C++ 8.0 (Visual Studio 2005)
- Scan Took : 0.510 Second(s)
--- snip ---

Game can be started in windowed mode with "-w".

The game itself crashed on my machine after start.
A relay trace shows it tries to allocate a large chunk of memory (~600 MiB).

--- snip ---
0026:Call KERNEL32.VirtualAlloc(00000000,00600000,00003000,00000004)
ret=00a3ab74
0026:Ret  KERNEL32.VirtualAlloc() retval=04a90000 ret=00a3ab74
0026:Call KERNEL32.InitializeCriticalSection(04a90004) ret=006a9b44
0026:Ret  KERNEL32.InitializeCriticalSection() retval=00000001 ret=006a9b44
0026:Call KERNEL32.GetLastError() ret=78132dba
0026:Ret  KERNEL32.GetLastError() retval=00000000 ret=78132dba
0026:Call KERNEL32.GetLastError() ret=78132dba
0026:Ret  KERNEL32.GetLastError() retval=00000000 ret=78132dba
0026:Call KERNEL32.GetLastError() ret=78132dba
0026:Ret  KERNEL32.GetLastError() retval=00000000 ret=78132dba
0026:Call KERNEL32.VirtualAlloc(00000000,23900000,00003000,00000004)
ret=00a3ab74
0026:Ret  KERNEL32.VirtualAlloc() retval=00000000 ret=00a3ab74
0026:trace:seh:raise_exception code=c0000005 flags=0 addr=0xa35108 ip=00a35108
tid=0026
0026:trace:seh:raise_exception  info[0]=00000001
0026:trace:seh:raise_exception  info[1]=00000080
0026:trace:seh:raise_exception  eax=00000000 ebx=00000000 ecx=00000080
edx=238ffa00 esi=00000080 edi=00000080
0026:trace:seh:raise_exception  ebp=238fff80 esp=0237e7c0 cs=0073 ds=007b
es=007b fs=0033 gs=003b flags=00010246
0026:trace:seh:call_vectored_handlers calling handler at 0x68bf8de9
code=c0000005 flags=0
0026:trace:seh:call_vectored_handlers handler at 0x68bf8de9 returned 0
0026:trace:seh:call_stack_handlers calling handler at 0xba8cd1 code=c0000005
flags=0 
--- snip ---

I've checked /proc/pid/maps at the time of the crash and it seems the address
space is too fragmented to find such a large free area.
This is due to randomized address space feature where some system lib mappings
lead to fragmentation of the the virtual address space.

You can temporarily turn this feature off: 

--- snip ---
$ sudo bash -c "echo 0 >/proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space"
--- snip ---

and the game should now start (did in my case).

Marking this bug fixed.

Regards

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