Gecko installation broken?

[Lei Zhang]

On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Nikolay Sivov <bunglehead at gmail.com> wrote:
> Lei Zhang wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Lei Zhang <thestig at google.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Stefan Dösinger
>>> <stefandoesinger at gmx.at> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>> Is my setup broken, or does the gecko installation fail? In a new wine
>>>> prefix,
>>>> when I open builtin iexplore, I get the installation dialog. The
>>>> download
>>>> runs successfully, but after installation iexplore still says that HTML
>>>> rendering is currently disabled. When I run iexplore again, I again see
>>>> the
>>>> Wine Gecko installer dialog box.
>>>>
>>>> My hacky nightly game tests ran into this problem. The last successfull
>>>> Team
>>>> Fotress 2 test run is from May 14, 2009. After that my Gecko setup
>>>> script
>>>> failed and did not even try to start up Steam.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Same problem here. Grr. Time for a regression test.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Regression test says:
>>
>> commit 24d6c88d16c46f00d99fd8529196590aca88b0f4
>> Author: Nikolay Sivov <bunglehead at gmail.com>
>> Date:   Wed May 13 23:23:57 2009 +0400
>>
>>    comctl32/tab: Fix TabCtrl_* macros.
>>
>> Will file bug after lunch.
>>
>>
>
> Only Oleview and Taskmanager use these macros in Wine tree. So can't be a
> cause I suppose.
>

It didn't think so either, so I even double checked. Upon further
investigation, it seems the problem is simply the gecko cab download
is failing. Either one of the Sourceforge servers is down/flaky, or
source.winehq.org is taking too long to do the redirect and wininet
doesn't handle that well.