[Bug 50168] Error when running notepad.exe: Failed to start RpcSs service

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https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50168

--- Comment #7 from Hans Leidekker <hans at meelstraat.net> ---
(In reply to Dmitry Timoshkov from comment #6)
> (In reply to Hans Leidekker from comment #5)
> > (In reply to Dmitry Timoshkov from comment #4)
> > > However it's not trivial to reproduce. I had to run the built binaries on a
> > > virtualization server with OpenVZ kernel 2.6.32.
> > 
> > Looks like a variation of bug 49938. The new path uses getrandom() if
> > detected at build time, otherwise it falls back to opening /dev/urandom like
> > we did before. 
> > 
> > So your build is probably from a newer system where getrandom() is available
> > and kernel 2.6.32 is certainly too old to support it.
> 
> Could we probably try to detect this situation at run-time, and fallback to
> old behaviour if appropriate?

We could, if we think it's worth it. Note that passing ac_cv_func_getrandom=no
would work around the issue. I'm not sure what's reasonable here. Can you still
run non-trivial apps on that kernel using a build configured for a modern
system?

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