[Wine] Unable to configure wine

[Roel Schroeven]

Sorry for the uninformative subject line; I can't think of a short way 
to describe the problem.

I installed Wine on a Debian Sarge machine. I installed Wine version 
0.9.25 from backports.org, since the version in Sarge proper is way too old.

Then I tried to configure Wine using winecfg, but that didn't work out: 
I only got this output (abbreviated; I can send the full output if 
anybody is interested):

Invoking /usr/lib/wine/wine.bin winecfg.exe ...
wine: creating configuration directory '/home/roel/.wine'...
wine: Unhandled page fault on write access to 0x003ffd80 at address 
0x608937fe (thread 000b), starting debugger...
wine: Unhandled page fault on write access to 0x003ffd80 at address 
0x608937fe (thread 000d), starting debugger...
Unhandled exception: page fault on write access to 0x003ffd80 in 32-bit 
code (0x608937fe).
Register dump:
  CS:0023 SS:002b DS:002b ES:002b FS:1007 GS:0000
  EIP:608937fe ESP:0034eb68 EBP:0034eec0 EFLAGS:00010216(   - 00 
-RIAP1)
  EAX:0034efe0 EBX:6089ad00 ECX:60016ca0 EDX:003fffff
  ESI:003ffd80 EDI:60016540
Stack dump:
0x0034eb68:  0034eb98 60898dd0 0034eb98 0034eb94
0x0034eb78:  00000000 00000000 00000004 00000003
0x0034eb88:  60899f18 60899f14 0034ee1c 00000023
0x0034eb98:  53203123 5720504d 41206465 31206775
0x0034eba8:  30312037 3a35303a 55203132 32204354
0x0034ebb8:  00353030 00000005 00001000 00000001
0200: sel=1007 base=7ffdc000 limit=00001fff 32-bit rw-
Backtrace:
=>1 0x608937fe pthread_initialize+0x23e in libpthread.so.0 (0x0034eec0)
   2 0x60898d45 __do_global_ctors_aux+0x35 in libpthread.so.0 (0x0034eed0)
   3 0x6088fc6a _init+0x12 in libpthread.so.0 (0x0034eed8)
   4 0x6000c1ce in ld-linux.so.2 (+0xc1ce) (0x0034ef08)
   5 0x6000c36a _dl_init+0x15a in ld-linux.so.2 (0x0034ef48)
   6 0x60236092 in libc.so.6 (+0x107092) (0x0034efb8)
   7 0x6000c016 _dl_catch_error+0x76 in ld-linux.so.2 (0x0034f0b8)
   8 0x60236676 _dl_open+0x66 in libc.so.6 (0x0034f118)
   9 0x60263008 in libdl.so.2 (+0x1008) (0x0034f128)
   10 0x6000c016 _dl_catch_error+0x76 in ld-linux.so.2 (0x0034f228)
   11 0x602634c6 in libdl.so.2 (+0x14c6) (0x0034f258)
   12 0x60263054 dlopen+0x34 in libdl.so.2 (0x0034f278)
   13 0x6001e9e6 wine_dlopen+0x36 in libwine.so.1 (0x0034f2a8)
   14 0x606df8f5 in winex11 (+0x2f8f5) (0x0034f2d8)
   15 0x606e607e X11DRV_setup_opengl_visual+0x5e in winex11 (0x0034f388)
   16 0x606f7797 in winex11 (+0x47797) (0x0034f3c8)


I've googled around a bit, and I've seen many questions about a similar 
problem, but no solutions. Some people say it's a problem with the 2.4 
kernel (the machine is running 2.4.27-2-686-smp) and/or glibc (we're 
running 2.3.2.ds1-22sarge6 on that machine). However, the FAQ on the 
Wine webpage doesn't mention anything about problems with either of these.

I tried to install Wine on a system with a newer Debian (etch); there I 
could configure it without problems.

I'd rather not upgrade from sarge to etch on this machine, so I hope 
there are solutions besides that.

-- 
If I have been able to see further, it was only because I stood
on the shoulders of giants.  -- Isaac Newton

Roel Schroeven