Tried a different tack ....

[Phil Stracchino]

I installed the latest Codeweavers preview build (binary RPM, ugh!), and
the DeskTopWindow error I was experiencing building from cvs is gone.  All 
the font fixme warnings (which had, at one point, gone away) are back, and 
I'm back to the previous error I was getting before DeskTopWindow:

babylon5:alaric:~:46 $ wine --debugmsg fixme-font d:\\install.exe
Invoking /opt/wine/bin/wine.bin --debugmsg fixme-font d:\install.exe ...
/usr/bin/wine: mktemp: command not found
/usr/bin/wine: mktemp: command not found
Building font metrics. This may take some time...
err:seh:UnhandledExceptionFilter Couldn't start debugger (debugger/winedbg 
134631352 32) (2)
Read the Wine Developers Guide on how to set up winedbg or another 
debugger
Wine failed with return code 3
babylon5:alaric:~:47 $ 


....But I don't WANT wine to start the debugger.  As far as I can tell, 
Wine is now croaking because it's unable to start a debugger that I never 
told it to start in the first place.

/opt/wine/bin/winedbg is a symlink to wine.
there is no /opt/wine/bin/wine.
/usr/bin/wine is a symlink to /opt/wine/bin/winelauncher.

I've tried making /opt/wine/bin/winedbg point at 
/opt/wine/bin/winelauncher instead of just dangling.  It didn't work.  
I've also tried moving the /opt/wine/bin/winedbg symlink altogether.  
Still no effect.  Finally I discovered that when I click winelauncher's 
debug button, it launches wine.bin, so I hardlinked /opt/wine/bin/winedbg 
to /opt/wine/bin/wine.bin.  

Now, when I click the debug button, I get this message in the winelauncher 
window:

Invoking /opt/wine/bin/wine.bin -debugmsg warn+all --debugmsg fixme-font 
d:\install.exe ...

and this eventually ends up with:

warn:dialog:MessageBoxA Messagebox
warn:win:WIN_CreateWindowEx Bad class '#'
warn:dosfs:DOSFS_FindUnixName 'debugger/winedbg.exe' not found in 
'/home/alaric'
warn:dosfs:DOSFS_FindUnixName 'debugger/winedbg' not found in 
'/home/alaric'
warn:dosfs:DOSFS_FindUnixName 'debugger/winedbg 134631352.exe' not found 
in '/home/alaric'
warn:dosfs:DOSFS_FindUnixName 'debugger/winedbg 134631352' not found in 
'/home/alaric'
warn:dosfs:DOSFS_FindUnixName 'debugger/winedbg 134631352 32.exe' not 
found in '/home/alaric'
warn:dosfs:DOSFS_FindUnixName 'debugger/winedbg 134631352 32' not found in 
'/home/alaric'
err:seh:UnhandledExceptionFilter Couldn't start debugger (debugger/winedbg 
134631352 32) (2)
Read the Wine Developers Guide on how to set up winedbg or another 
debugger
Wine failed with return code 3


So, I symlinked /opt/wine/bin/winedbg as /home/alaric/debugger/winedbg 
(I'm trying everything I can think of here to make it happy).  This threw 
wine into an endless loop ....

babylon5:alaric:~:67 $ wine --debugmsg fixme-font d:\\install.exe
Invoking /opt/wine/bin/wine.bin --debugmsg fixme-font d:\install.exe ...
/usr/bin/wine: mktemp: command not found
/usr/bin/wine: mktemp: command not found
Building font metrics. This may take some time...
fixme:pthread_kill_other_threads_np
Building font metrics. This may take some time...
fixme:pthread_kill_other_threads_np
Building font metrics. This may take some time...
fixme:pthread_kill_other_threads_np
Building font metrics. This may take some time...
fixme:pthread_kill_other_threads_np
Building font metrics. This may take some time...
fixme:pthread_kill_other_threads_np
Building font metrics. This may take some time...


Is there some way I can tell wine, "Look, DON'T START any damn debugger,
just tell me what failed"?  Right now, the only thing all this wrestling
with the debugger is achieving is to hide the actual reason why it's
trying to start the debugger.  If I knew why it was trying to start the
debugger, I might stand a snowball's chance in hell of fixing the problem.


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