[Wine] Help testing regression

James McKenzie jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net
Mon Jul 27 17:08:19 CDT 2009


mildred wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I need help to find the commit when a regression happened: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18436
>
> I know git, and I can run git bisect just fine. Wine compiles (even if I have to patch version 1.0 since freetype changed). But when I try to install my application or run it using the built wine, I got a problem.
>
> the WINEPREFIX is an empty directory at the start, and when I run setup.exe, I just get:
>
>
> Code:
> ALSA lib seq_hw.c:457:(snd_seq_hw_open) open /dev/snd/seq failed: No such file or directory
> Could not load 'WIN87EM.DLL' required by 'IS20INST', error=2
>
>
>
> I remember at that time, the installation worked just well. If I install the program with the current wine version, it goes fine, and if I try to start it, I get a very similar and frustrating error (the last one):
>
>
> Code:
> err:menubuilder:WinMain unknown option -a
> err:menubuilder:WinMain unknown option -r
> ALSA lib seq_hw.c:457:(snd_seq_hw_open) open /dev/snd/seq failed: No such file or directory
> Could not load Mozilla. HTML rendering will be disabled.
> wine: configuration in '/home/mildred/.local/opt/wine/root' has been updated.
> ALSA lib seq_hw.c:457:(snd_seq_hw_open) open /dev/snd/seq failed: No such file or directory
> [b]Could not load 'KEYBOARD.DLL' required by 'SUPERLEX', error=2[/b]
>
>
>
> Long ago, I heard that sometimes application refused to run because they couldn't find the dll file. I did touch $WINEPREFIX/drive_c/windows/keyboard.dll with no result
>
> I suppose the problem may be caused because wine is not installed, and so can't find KEYBOARD.DLL or keyboard.drv.so (or some similar fine, I don't know).
>
> Does anybody have an idea on how I could continue to work on this problem?
>
>
>   
You do not have access to /dev/snd/seq.

[code]

su -
[enter root's password]
cd /dev/snd
ls -l seq

[/code]

and report back what you get.
 
DO NOT RUN WINE AS ROOT TO GET AROUND THIS PROBLEM.

James McKenzie







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