interesting crash in msvc6.0 setup

[Dan Kegel]

Back in January, I wrote:
 > ... I'm trying to install msvc6.0 under wine. ...
> 
> When emulating win9x, it fails before presenting
> a dialog box ...

It still does this, but I understand the problem now:
a --debugmsg +all reveals it's crashing because the
HKLM\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\VersionNumber
registry key is missing (Ender posted about this problem in Sept '02).

> When emulating winnt or winxp, it gets a bit further, but dies
> with a null pointer access. 

Not sure why, but two months later, cvs wine gets past this fine;
it installs the Microsoft VM for Java with following fixme's and err's:

fixme:process:CreateProcessA (D:\ie4\msjavx86.exe,...): NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS ignored
fixme:win32:PE_CreateModule Security directory ignored
fixme:process:CreateProcessA (E:\IXP000.TMP\javatrig.exe,...): NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS ignored
fixme:setupapi:extract_cabinet_file awful hack: extracting cabinet "E:\\IXP000.TMP\\javaie30.cab"
fixme:cabinet:process_files (basecab == ^0x80a97c0): Memory leak.
err:setupapi:SetupDefaultQueueCallbackA copy error 5 "E:\\IXP000.TMP\\regsvr32.exe" -> "C:\\WINDOWS\\SYSTEM\\regsvr32.exe"
fixme:process:CreateProcessA (E:\IXP000.TMP\cryptsys.exe,...): NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS ignored
fixme:process:CreateProcessA (E:\IXP000.TMP\cryptsys.exe,...): CREATE_DEFAULT_ERROR_MODE ignored
fixme:win32:PE_CreateModule Security directory ignored
fixme:ntdll:NtOpenProcessToken (0xffffffff,0x00000008,0x40552724): stub
fixme:ntdll:NtQueryInformationToken (0xcafe,2,(nil),0,0x4055272c): stub
fixme:ntdll:NtQueryInformationToken (0xcafe,2,0x40260770,12,0x4055272c): stub
err:setupapi:SetupDefaultQueueCallbackA copy error 5 "E:\\IXP001.TMP\\regsvr32.exe" -> "C:\\WINDOWS\\SYSTEM\\regsvr32.exe"
err:setupapi:SetupDefaultQueueCallbackA delete error 2 "C:\\WINDOWS\\runvm.exe"
err:setupapi:SetupDefaultQueueCallbackA delete error 2 "C:\\WINDOWS\\SYSTEM\\javasntx.dll"
err:setupapi:SetupDefaultQueueCallbackA delete error 2 "C:\\WINDOWS\\Java\\Classes\\ClassR.exe"
err:setupapi:SetupDefaultQueueCallbackA delete error 2 "C:\\WINDOWS\\Java\\Classes\\jdbc.exe"
err:setupapi:SetupDefaultQueueCallbackA delete error 2 "C:\\WINDOWS\\Java\\Classes\\DxaR.exe"
err:setupapi:SetupDefaultQueueCallbackA delete error 2 "C:\\WINDOWS\\Java\\Classes\\Dx3R.exe"
err:setupapi:SetupDefaultQueueCallbackA delete error 2 "C:\\WINDOWS\\Java\\Classes\\CABR.exe"
err:setupapi:SetupDefaultQueueCallbackA delete error 2 "C:\\WINDOWS\\Java\\Classes\\AFCR.exe"
fixme:setupapi:extract_cabinet_file awful hack: extracting cabinet "E:\\IXP000.TMP\\javabase.cab"

and "reboots".  Running 'wine d:/setup' again resumes, and it runs properly at first.

The first anomaly is that if you click on the "View Readme" button,
it does a ShellExecuteA(0, "open", "d:\\readme.htm",...) which
fails (since we don't install an open handler for .htm files),
and says "You must have an HTML viewer, like Microsoft Internet Explorer,
installed before you can view the readme."

The next one was that install failed very late (after installation)
with the error
"Setup could not open the file:
  'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\REGSVR32.EXE'"

After that, it always failed for me with an error saying
"Visual Studio 6.0 Setup was not completed successfully."
It crashes when you click 'ok', but the stack isn't
terribly useful (it dies with a write to address 4
in MSSETUP.DLL.FFree+0x88).  The following fixmes might be
related:

fixme:font:CreateScalableFontResourceA (0,"C:\\WINDOWS\\vssetup.for","C:\\WINDOWS\\vssetup.ttf",(null)): stub
fixme:ntdll:NtOpenThreadToken (0xfffffffe,0x00000008,0x00000000,0x4055241c): stub
fixme:ntdll:NtQueryInformationToken (0xcafe,2,(nil),0,0x40552418): stub
fixme:ntdll:NtQueryInformationToken (0xcafe,2,0x405523f0,12,0x40552418): stub
fixme:ntdll:NtOpenThreadToken (0xfffffffe,0x00000008,0x00000000,0x40552268): stub
fixme:ntdll:NtQueryInformationToken (0xcafe,2,(nil),0,0x40552264): stub
fixme:ntdll:NtQueryInformationToken (0xcafe,2,0x4055223c,12,0x40552264): stub

I've even tried wiping out ~/c and ~/.wine, and reinstalling
wine, but still no joy.  I've only gotten the installer to work mostly right once.

> Whenever it crashes in winnt/xp, it leaves one or more windowless
> wcmd's running the following script:
> 
> :Repeat
> del "E:\vs60wiz.exe"
> if exist "E:\vs60wiz.exe" goto Repeat
> del "C:\WINDOWS\DEL4056.BAT"
> 
> in a loop, chewing up huge amounts of CPU time.

This problem's still here.  Earlier, applying the patch
http://www.winehq.com/hypermail/wine-patches/2002/12/0052.html
seemed to fix it, but Alexander didn't like that patch,
and applied something cleaner.  So who knows...

Anyway, it looks like we're not tremendously close to running msvc6's
installer :-(

That's it for playtime for me today.
- Dan

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