[Wine] MSN Messenger in Wine?

[David Gerard]

It's marked "garbage" in the appdb, because the installer doesn't run
without quite a bit of tweaking. But anyway ...

I want to get MSN working in Wine. It's for my girlfriend's daughter,
whose XP box just got trashed by a virus/rootkit (spread via MSN, of
course). So we've saved her stuff and we're nuking and paving the box.
I would like to use Ubuntu instead of Windows, but she flatly insists
Pidgin and Trillian are awful to use and she wants genuine MSN and
nothing else.

Using wlsetup-all.exe (the complete 134MB installer package), in a
clean WINEPREFIX with wine-gecko 0.9.1, the installer doesn't run at
all until I do "winetricks msxml3". Then it comes up with a dialog
box:

  Couldn't install programs

  Please try installing Windows Live programs again.

  Error: OnInitDialog: 0x80070717

  Next steps: An unknown error occurred

When you hit "close", Wine crashes:

err:progress:ProgressWindowProc unknown msg 1408 wp=0000 lp=00000000
wine: Unhandled page fault on write access to 0x00000110 at address
0x8ab3bba (thread 0027), starting debugger...
Unhandled exception: page fault on write access to 0x00000110 in
32-bit code (0x08ab3bba).

The backtrace starts:

Backtrace:
=>0 0x08ab3bba (0x0032f3d0)
  1 0x7ed0bf1a WINPROC_wrapper+0x1a() in user32 (0x0032f400)
  2 0x7ed0c1fe WINPROC_wrapper+0x2fe() in user32 (0x0032f440)
  3 0x7ed101ba in user32 (+0xb01ba) (0x0032f480)

Has anyone had any more luck with MSN? Any ideas on next steps
regarding the above?


- d.