weird and funky things happen when viewing guimark in ie6 in wine...

Austin English austinenglish at gmail.com
Sun Dec 13 21:57:09 CST 2009


On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 9:37 PM, Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com> wrote:
> Austin has a workaround for the problem that makes ie6
> exit immediately ( http://code.google.com/p/winezeug/issues/detail?id=78 ).
> While testing it on guimark,
>  wine ~.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Internet\ Explorer/IEXPLORE.EXE
> http://www.craftymind.com/factory/guimark/GUIMark_HTML4.html
> I noticed something strange when I closed ie6 after running for a few seconds.
> Either I see some sort of file leak (and this is with a fully vanilla
> fresh wine):
> ...
> wine client error:10c: pipe: Too many open files
> fixme:wininet:InternetSetOptionW INTERNET_OPTION_COOKIES_3RD_PARTY; STUB
> fixme:wininet:InternetSetOptionW Option
> INTERNET_OPTION_REQUEST_PRIORITY (-1): STUB
> fixme:wininet:InternetSetOptionW Option INTERNET_OPTION_CODEPAGE (65001): STUB
> fixme:wininet:InternetSetOptionW Option INTERNET_OPTION_ERROR_MASK(11): STUB
> wine client error:10d: pipe: Too many open files
> fixme:wininet:InternetSetOptionW INTERNET_OPTION_COOKIES_3RD_PARTY; STUB
> fixme:wininet:InternetSetOptionW Option
> INTERNET_OPTION_REQUEST_PRIORITY (-1): STUB
> fixme:wininet:InternetSetOptionW Option INTERNET_OPTION_CODEPAGE (65001): STUB
> fixme:wininet:InternetSetOptionW Option INTERNET_OPTION_ERROR_MASK(11): STUB
> ...
>
> or I see
> Building font metrics. This may take some time...
> Font metrics: 0.0% done
> ...
> and the whole long font metric rebuilding process, which should
> never be happening anymore for local X servers (right?).

It still occurs on OS X (last I tested). I think that it may be
related to the DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH problem.

> The "wine client error" comes from ntdll/server.c.  It ought to be easy
> to get a backtrace from the problem using winedbg by setting
> a breakpoint, but I haven't managed to so far.
> Debugging this is complicated by the fact that GuiMark seems to crash my
> home router; maybe it does too many fetches too quickly.
>
> Do other people see this, too?
>
> Firefox seems to handle it well in wine, and doesn't show this problem.
> If this turns out to be an ie6 bug, we don't care, but there's some chance
> it's a wine bug.  Guimark seems to be quite the stress test.

I see the same in ie6 on wine. I only have ie7 in my xp vm, but I
don't see any crash/slowdown there.

-- 
-Austin



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