App hangs, no errormessages

[matren....@web.de]

I am trying to run an App with Wine, but the application hangs (after
the splash window of the app appears) and nothing happens. Even
started from the Console there are no error messages at all.
Is there any way i can check why the app hangs ?

I run Ubunty (Feisty Desktop) on VMWare Server.
Application is GS-Auftrag Professional SQL
(can be downloaded from ftp://ftp.gsn.de/pub/prg/WIN32/AUFTRAGSQL/winauf32sql.exe
)
(requires BDE (which can be downloaded from ftp://ftp.gsn.de/pub/prg/WIN32/BDE/BDE32.EXE
) )

Any hints on how i can find out what the problem is ?

[matren....@web.de]

After several retries i got (only once) an errormessage (after killing
the app process):

err:x11drv:X11DRV_CreateWindow invalid window height -136
err:x11drv:X11DRV_CreateWindow invalid window height -144
err:x11drv:X11DRV_CreateWindow invalid window height -136
err:x11drv:X11DRV_CreateWindow invalid window width -204
err:x11drv:X11DRV_CreateWindow invalid window height -136
fixme:shdocvw:PersistStorage_InitNew (0x1d2fb8)->(0x7dbe5eb0)
fixme:shdocvw:WebBrowser_QueryInterface (0x1d2fb8)-
>({0000011e-0000-0000-c000-000000000046} 0x33b928) interface not
supported

I assume there is also a problem with the missing Internet Explorer
installation.
(will try to install IE and check what happens afterwards)
But have no idea what the problem root is regarding the the window
heights problem.

[Aggro]

If you kill the application, it is quite normal to get error messages
like that. I doubt that they are related to your problem.

I think you could try running wine in debug mode. There might be more
info at http://www.winehq.org/site/documentation

[Aggro]

You can get the debug mode on, if you go to console and first give this
command:

export WINEDEBUG=warn+all

Thatn then start wine:

wine programname.exe

[DanKegel]

On Jul 20, 2:01 am, matren.philh...@web.de wrote:
> I am trying to run an App with Wine, but the application hangs (after
> the splash window of the app appears)

This is usually a z-order problem, i.e. there is some dialog
hidden behind the splash screen. You can often get
past these by pressing Enter or some other key the
dialog expects. You can often see the messages the
dialogs are trying to show by starting the app with
WINEDEBUG=+text wine ...

> Application is GS-Auftrag Professional SQL

> ftp://ftp.gsn.de/pub/prg/WIN32/AUFTRAGSQL/winauf32sql.exe
> requires BDE ftp://ftp.gsn.de/pub/prg/WIN32/BDE/BDE32.EXE

I've investigated and confirmed that pressing J and Enter the two
times this happens lets the app get a lot further. It then barfs,
probably because our IE6 emulation isn't very good. I filed a bug
for this, http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9039, to save
you the trouble. I suggest taking further discussion to that bug
report.
Once you reproduce the problem I saw, try running the app after
installing real ie6, perhaps using ies4linux or Codeweavers Crossover.
- Dan

[matren....@web.de]

I can reporoduce the behaviour you mentioned.
The Error-Dialogs appear behind the Splash Screen and can be skipped
by pressing ENTER.

The error you added to the Bugtracker also appears after installing IE
(with ies4linux).
There are also other errors appearing after clicking around a bit. But
i am not sure if they are all related to wine.
(since i also experienced some errors from time to time under real
windows environment)
I will continue testing to see if the Database Connection (MSSQL) is
working.

Finally to mention for the bugtracker : This application is also a
Delphi Application.

Thanks for your help.