Blizzard Updater Problem

[Robert Shearman]

Erich Hoover wrote:
> 
> I haven't been able to get the blizzard updater to run on recent 
> versions of wine (I've downloaded from CVS to make sure there isn't a 
> fix).  I'm not sure if this is something wrong with my setup or a bug 
> with wine (i recently reinstalled my system with Fedora Core 2 and am 
> no-longer running the same version of wine).

More likely a change in Wine caused the app to fail.

> I'm executing programs 
> with "setarch i386 wine <appname>" but the blizzard updater seems hosed 
> (though Diablo II and Warcraft III run fine).  It appears that the 
> updater doesn't launch correctly (i'm guessing because of the setarch 
> stuff) so I run the updater manually by typing "setarch i386 wine 
> BNupdate.exe" and I get this:

I assume other programs run correctly, e.g notepad?
 
> fixme:msvcrt:_XcptFilter (-1073741819,0x5584f76c)semi-stub
> wine: Unhandled exception (thread 0009), starting debugger...
> fixme:console:SetConsoleCtrlHandler (0x55609ec4,1) - no error checking 
> or testing yet
> WineDbg starting on pid 0x8
> Unhandled exception: page fault on write access to 0x00000000 in 32-bit 
> code (0x558fc91c).
> In 32 bit mode.
> 0x558fc91c: movl        $0x0,0x0(%eax)
> Wine-dbg>quit
> WineDbg terminated on pid 0x8
> 
> At which point I have to type quit to close the debugger (as you can 
> see).  Any help would be greatly appreciated, if you need more 
> information just send me a message.

A backtrace would be useful. Instead of typing "quit" type "bt"

Rob