request to change appdb message

Chris Morgan chmorgan at gmail.com
Fri Jun 29 12:56:28 CDT 2007


On 6/29/07, Jesse Allen <the3dfxdude at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/29/07, Louis Lenders <xerox_xerox2000 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > Yeah, so maybe we could add a list of "Common failures" to the documention,
> >  with the solution. I can live with that. Then we could point garbage test
> > submitters to that page. That would be a nice work around. I'll have to
> > figure out how wiki works, and then i could give it a shot lateron i guess.
> >
> > Something like:
> >
> > Problem:
> > err:module:import_dll Library MSVBVM60.DLL (needed by L"C:\\app.exe")
> > not found
> > err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L"C:\\app.exe"
> > failed,status c0000135
> >
> > Solution:
> > winetricks vcrun60
> >
> > or
> >
> > Problem:
> > wine app.exe
> > err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {00000514-0000-0010-8000-00aa006d2ea4}
> > not registered
> > err:ole:create_server class {00000514-0000-0010-8000-00aa006d2ea4}
> > not registered
> > err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object
> > {00000514-0000-0010-8000-00aa006d2ea4}could be created for
> > context 0x5
> > Unhandled page fault etc.........
> >
> > Solution:
> > winetricks mdac27
> >
> > Would that be something useful?
> >
> > Cheers, Louis
> >
> >
> >
>
> Well, yeah. But the maintainer should be doing that already using
> appdb notes based on his own knowledge or reading test reports. The
> maintainer already screens the reports. So I can't see why we need to
> be more automatic.
>
> However we should set up a wiki for common problems or procedures so
> the maintainer can  link to them from the notes.
>

Checking it automatically lets us skip the round trip of submission,
review, rejection and resubmission. We can check the submission and
report suggestions before the user even submits the test results, thus
avoiding the problem where each of our 800+ maintainers knows about
those problems.

Chris



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