Wine compatibility and performance on FreeBSD 7

[Marc Fonvieille]

On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 02:09:25PM -0500, Tom Wickline wrote:
> >
> > In September had to play with Office 2k and I followed your linux
> > related instruction to run it under FreeBSD (I note your FreeBSD related
> > article is identical to the linux one).  But, I never were able to run
> > Excel, this one just hangs once the main page is displayed (Word runs
> > fine).  I wonder if you never met this issue.
> >
> > Here's what I got in the terminal:
> > err:iphlpapi:getRouteTable Received unsupported sockaddr family 0x12
> > err:iphlpapi:getRouteTable Unexpected address type 0x10
> > err:iphlpapi:getRouteTable Unexpected address type 0x20
> > err:iphlpapi:getRouteTable Received unsupported sockaddr family 0x12
> > err:iphlpapi:getRouteTable Unexpected address type 0x10
> > err:iphlpapi:getRouteTable Unexpected address type 0x20
> 
> > err:ntdll:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection section 0x1320e0 "moniker.c:
> > RunningObjectTableImpl.lock" wait timed out in thread 0009, blocked by
> > 0000, retrying (60 sec)
> 
> What you could try is to install dcom98 and in it will use a native storage.dll
>

dcom98 "refuses" to be installed :)
Well, I assume Office 2k installs by default some of these files.

> > fixme:storage:StgCreateDocfile Transacted mode not implemented.
> 
> looks like the culprit.. i didn't run into this tho.. ill re-install
> Office 2k again and test everything
> another time.

Please, try with a fresh wine install, i.e. starting without a populated
~/.wine

-- 
Marc