release 0.8.3 of kdewin installer available

[Ralf Habacker]

Marcel Partap schrieb:
> Hi there,
> I tried compiling KDE4 from subversion using the emerge script some weeks ago,
> ran into some troubles and was told here to fix my WINE first.. actually that
> solved the issues I had with Python, but after that I ran into a problem with
> WINE's pipe processing (see bug http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10192).
> That's not yet fixed but Jason is working on it.
> Now I thought to myself, as KDE4 is already in the RC phase, well, try the
> precompiled packages... my initial result:
>   
>> localhost ~ $ wine kdewin-installer-gui-0.8.3.exe
>> ALSA lib pcm_softvol.c:889:(_snd_pcm_softvol_open) Unknown field max_dB
>> ntlm_auth: error opening config file /etc/samba/smb.conf. Error was Invalid or
>> incomplete multibyte or wide character
>> err:ntlm:SECUR32_initNTLMSP ntlm_auth was not found or is outdated. Make sure
>> that ntlm_auth >= 3.0.25 is in your path.
>> err:ntlm:SECUR32_initNTLMSP Usually, you can find it in the winbind package of
>> your distribution.
>> fixme:secur32:GetUserNameExW 2 0x806a30 0x119fc04
>> fixme:userenv:GetUserProfileDirectoryW 0xd4 (nil) 0x119fc20
>> fixme:userenv:GetUserProfileDirectoryW 0xe0 (nil) 0x119fc20
>> err:seh:setup_exception stack overflow 20 bytes in thread 0009 eip 7ef9e935
>> esp 00810fec stack 0x811000-0x11a0000
>> localhost ~ $
>>     
> then I remebered the 'fix your wine first' comment and changed to a fresh
> wineprefix. Oh wonder, problem gone.
> After starting it and selecting MinGW it downloaded the package list fine. The
> package list was a bit strange at first (each package twice?!)
I recognized this problem too. In 0.8.3-1 there is a quick fix for this 
behavior.
> but then cleared
> up. When I selected kdetoys and kdenetwork etc I was a bit confused at first
> that the deps didn't get automatically set but after clicking next it showed
> they will be installed. 
this shows me that it would be better to inform the user that additional 
packages are selected immediatly instead of the next page.
> So clicking next again - stuff starts downloading. Now
> while the progress bar started moving I saw the next button was not disabled.
> Click - nothing. Click - nothing. Click - BOOM. Please disable that button
> during installation x)
> Anyways ('mooving right aloong..') .. after trying again and leaving it be for
> some time I noticed taht the disk was full and the installer was just hogging
> the cpu. After killing it, next try.
> Now well, everything seemed to work.. teh KDE dir has 590mb installed in it..
>   
msvc will probably required half the amount.
> but well, the installer is sucking CPU since four hours and doing _nothing_..
> Killed it, 
An strace dump or a gdb produced backtrace would be nice to see where 
the problem could be.
>
> mmh this needs some work.. well gotta run just wanted to report my
> almost-success story, cant investigate further right now.
>   
Thanks for your hints

Ralf