FW: RE: My 1.0 wish list

[Tom Booker]

hopefully nobody flames me but i just tied all these bugs together thru bug
5350..  they block it now.. maybe i should just make them all dupes instead?

plz dont flame me  im just trying to help

Tom


On 6/3/06, EA Durbin <ead1234 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have compiled a list of applications that are affected by the bug in
> which
> the query in ready_media_for_file() in MSI returns the wrong results, it
> returns LastSequence less than the  file->Sequence being passed.
>
> Here is a detailed analysis of the multiple types of errors this bugs
> causes.
>
> Common debug outputs of this bug are:
>
> Error #1:
>
> err:msi:ACTION_InstallFiles compressed file wasn't extracted
>
> This error is usually caused by the results of the query returning a
> LastSequence number of Less than that of the working install media and the
> installer is trying to extract the file from the wrong install medium.
>
> Error #2:
>
> err:msi:extract_cabinet_file FDICopy failed
> err:msi:ACTION_InstallFiles Unable to ready media
>
> There is a zero in LastSequence Value of the Media table and the query in
> ready_media_for_file() returns it. For some reason the msi file has a zero
> in the LastSequence but its really a dummy cabinet file and doesn't exist.
> The file sequence being passed for the first file is most likely 1, and
> the
> query of >= 1 is returning 0 falsely causing this error.
>
>
>
> This problem in MSI spans a multitude of bugs.
>
>
> America's Army - bug #5139
> J2SE - bug # 4280
> Half Life 2 - bug # 5004, 4533
> Dawn of War Demo - bug # 3749
> E-Sword 6.5 - bug # 4251
> Rush for Berlin demo - bug #5187
> ATI demo(Rendering With Natural Light ) - bug # 4712?
>
> There are probably other bugs resulting from this, but the log doesn't
> detail it well enough, alot of them just have the debug dump at the end
> and
> not the pertainent msi err lines. I only included applications where it
> was
> obvious from the log, or I tested personally.
>
> >From: Mike McCormack <mike at codeweavers.com>
> >To: EA Durbin <ead1234 at hotmail.com>
> >Subject: Re: FW: RE: My 1.0 wish list
> >Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2006 00:30:41 +0900
> >
> >
> >You can send me as many mails as you like, but I'm not doing anything
> until
> >there's a test case showing the problem.
> >
> >Mike
>
> I wrote a test showing the results of the query in the wine installer and
> included the source code and resulting logs which clearly displays the
> problem. That's the best I can do. I'm not up to snuff on my C
> programming,
> nor am I familiary with how the official test case for wine is supposed to
> be layed out. If someone else wants to work on it then thats fine, but I
> layed out the problem, and debugged it, and I've proven this with code and
> resulting logs. This problem affects a multitude of applications in wine.
> If
> your not willing to work on it then either someone else can, or it can
> remain broken.
>
>
>
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/attachments/20060603/a927524b/attachment.htm