RE: Crossover Office on FreeBSD

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Gerhard Sittig
Sent: Sunday, May 11, 2003 2:06 PM
To: freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Crossover Office on FreeBSD


On Sun, May 11, 2003 at 12:57 -0800, Beech Rintoul wrote:
>
> I'm attempting to get Crossover Office to install on 5.1 Beta, but the
> script errors with the following:
>
> chown: 0.0: illegal user name
> This installation doesn't support glibc-2.1 on FreeBSD / x86
>
> I think it needs the 2.2 libs in /compat/linux, but I have no clue how to
> point it there.

There are two things to consider here:

Is the second error ("doesn't support glibc...") separate from
the first one ("illegal user name") or is the "user friendly"
print out just the consequence of the failed chown(1) operation
(due to a lack of a better classification)?  IOW:  Is the chown
command meant to prepare or check the glibc support?  The answer
has quite dramatic an influence on the severeness of your
problem. :)

To catch and squish the first bug:  For ages it has been (IIUC)
the correct way to specify "user:group" to the chown command
(watch the semicolon!).  While the "user.group" syntax (with a
dot) was supported merely for convenience or compatibility
reasons.  After a rather long notice the not necessarily legal
second syntax was removed and is invalid now (it does not allow
for dots in user names and makes the syntax ambigious in this
scenario while being unpredictable is a behaviour you cannot
accept from an essential system tool).  Ask your software vendor
to correct the installer (and/or correct it locally yourself and
feed back the improvement to the vendor which raises the chance
for being accepted and integrated).

> Anyone have any suggestions on where to start on this? How do I get the
> script to use the linux libs, etc... Codeweavers wasn't very helpful, told
> me to install Linux!

Do they ship their application with one?  Do they support this
base system or at least make sure that this combination will
work?  The problem with "Linux" is that there are so many flavours
of it and some of the distributors cannot even handle version
numbers correctly (do not label patched version as such or call
totally mangled conglomerats(sp?) by their originals' names, which
confuses both the users and the service personnel -- since it's
hard when you don't know what is really inside from the look on
the package/cover).  You probably don't want to fight these
problems, too, when you actually have some other things to do.

Yes, I have seen office packages come with SuSE distros here.  And
one might assume that the two components cope well with each other
when they come in one box from one source -- in contrast to simply
having been thrown together by a salesman in the market.  This
bundling approach isn't even too sick when you simply want to
setup an office workstation instead of installing an office suite
to an already existing production system.  Linux licensing makes
the OS shipping even easier than it would be in the Windows world
(imagine Windows applications bringing their suggested or required
OS with them :] ).  VMware can even be cheaper and more space
efficient than a second machine.  And it definitely is handier
than a dual boot setup.  But I still assume that you don't really
have a library problem but a simple typo/braino (or Linuxism) in
the install script.

Thanks, I managed to get it installed with no errors using the shell in
/compat/linux. However It won't run. When I start the configure utility it
spins for a while and just exits with no errors. Since this uses wine as its
base I tried installing the wine port and didn't get much farther. Wine
seemed to configure ok, but trying to run a windows .exe results in the
following:

stargate# wine "c:\Program Files\setup.exe"
fixme:cdrom:CDROM_GetIdeInterface not implemented for BSD
fixme:reg:GetSystemInfo not yet supported on this system
err:ntdll:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection section 0x5c0feddc "loader.c:
loader_section" wait timed out, retrying (60 sec) tid=000a
wine: Unhandled exception, starting debugger...
err:ntdll:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection section 0x5c0feddc "loader.c:
loader_section" wait timed out, retrying (60 sec) tid=000a
err:seh:EXC_DefaultHandling Unhandled exception code c0000194 flags 0 addr
0x5c0c5254

Maybe someone with some wine experience can help me here.

Beech