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From: eserte@cs.tu-berlin.de (Slaven Rezic)
Newsgroups: comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Wine960928 crashed FreeBSD 2.1.5
Date: 30 Oct 1996 19:30:16 GMT
Organization: Fachbereich Informatik, Technische Universität Berlin,
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In article <32762988.167EB0E7@watermarkgroup.com> Luoqi Chen <luoqi@watermarkgroup.com> writes:

> 
> Wine crashes my machine whenever I try to do "wine -help", or try to
> run any non-existing file. It seemed that the CPU reset without any
> panicking message. Does anyone else have this problem? Is it unique to
> FreeBSD? How does wine crash the system without causing a panic?
> 
> The last message on screen was "wine: can't exec '-help'". I looked
> at wine source code, there is only a printf statement followed by
> an exit. Printf didn't show maybe because it's still in buffer.
> The only way exit could crash the system was the atexit calles,
> which include a XChangeKeyboard and winsock cleanup, none looked
> likely to be the cause. I'm really puzzled. Any help is appreciated.

I noticed this problem in FreeBSD-2.0.5-RELEASE. In the August
2.2-SNAPSHOT, this problem disappeared. If Wine fails to start a
Windows program, it tries starting the same program via exec. Maybe
there is the point where FreeBSD crashes. So: upgrade or disable the
exec code in Wine.

Gruß,
	Slaven
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