[Wine] "Socket type not supported" error

Austin English austinenglish at gmail.com
Tue Dec 9 18:56:33 CST 2008


On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 6:47 PM, kbbass <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> OK, I think I got something.
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> In my past life as a software designer, this would be referred to not as a "bug", but as a "feature" (please, no flames, just a little luv...).
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> In the registry, under the key: HKLM/System/CurrentControlSet/Services/WinSock2,
> there are several dummy keys (in the default Wine setup). I imported the WinSock2 tree from my XP installation, and that cured the Socket type not supported message. It looks like it must have been just a message, and not a failure.
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> But my service still won't start - it reports a service request timeout (that message may be from the app, not Wine).
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> More digging around debug messages....
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> ken
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So perhaps we need to propagate that key to support that app. What was
in that key?


-- 
-Austin



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