request to change appdb message

Chris Morgan chmorgan at gmail.com
Fri Jun 29 16:33:21 CDT 2007


On 6/29/07, Chris Morgan <chmorgan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

That last sentence should have been "where each of our 800+ maintainer
has to know about those problems and common solutions".

Chris



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