Wine/Photoshop: unhandled exception during install

Zoombie · 06-22-2004, 05:18 PM

I'm running Gentoo Linux, and I had Photoshop 7 running under wine 20040505 until I decided to do a fresh install (I got a new hard drive

). But now it won't work. About half way through the install, it pops up a message box:

Quote:

Unhandled page fault on write access to 0x0000000c at address 0x401dcee7.
Do you wish to debug it ?

And then exits. Does anybody know what to do about this?

I'm using kernel 2.6.6 if that helps...

anandj · 06-23-2004, 06:29 PM

Did you already do
echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/exec-shield

I am told that helps with kernel 2.6
Without it, I get seg faults when ever wine runs.

I have put it in /etc/rc.local so that it gets set automatically.

Zoombie · 06-24-2004, 02:49 PM

Code:

# echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/exec-shield
-bash: /proc/sys/kernel/exec-shield: No such file or directory

TheOneAndOnlySM · 06-24-2004, 02:54 PM

the 2004 wine releases haven't been very successful at installing photoshop 7; the latest (20040615) is the only one of the year that will run it, and it is supposed to be able to install it; the problem is that it may not write the registry entries correctly

to guarantee install success, use wine 20030813 (a version known to install and run photoshop well); you can get it from here:
ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/ALPH...0030813.tar.gz

anandj · 06-24-2004, 03:51 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Zoombie

Code:

# echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/exec-shield -bash: /proc/sys/kernel/exec-shield: No such file or directory

My apologies! The above command works in fedora.
try

setarch i386 wine <command name>

Zoombie · 06-24-2004, 11:55 PM

I got it to work by installing it in Windows and copying the system directory, as well as the registry entries, over to Linux. It seems to be running fine. I guess it's just the installer that isn't working...

anandj · 06-26-2004, 04:27 PM

wow! its great that you got photoshop working.

Which version of windows is this?
Can you pl give explicit instructions on how you managed to do it?
Where did you copy the system directory to? (exact path) Did you have to do any changes to the config file? When you mentioned you copied the system registry, can you tell me exactly which files you copied and to where?

thanks for the help.

Zoombie · 06-28-2004, 02:05 AM

I have Windows XP, but I don't think it matters. Here's how I did it:

Install Photoshop 7 in Windows (pretty straight forward)
Run regedit in Windows, export HKEY_LOCALMACHINE_SOFTWARE_ADOBE to file (adobe.reg)
Open adobe.reg in notepad, resave as adobe.reg, but change encoding to utf8.
Copy Adobe directory (C:\Program Files\Adobe to your fake windows installation in Wine)
Import adobe.reg using wine's regedit

Things to look out for:

Make sure the installation path is exactly the same on both sides. If you install to E in Windows, it will look for E in Wine.
If you copy from an NTFS partition or from CD, all files will be read-only. Make sure Adobe's program files are not read-only, or the program won't run correctly.

I'm using Wine-20040505 with the Photoshop patch, by the way, but I believe the June release includes this fix.

anandj · 06-28-2004, 09:02 PM

Thanks for the detailed instructions.
I can't wait to try it.

amosf · 06-29-2004, 04:02 AM

An easy way to get photoshop going on linux is to get a $40 copy of codeweavers crossover...

Zoombie · 06-29-2004, 01:49 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by amosf
An easy way to get photoshop going on linux is to get a $40 copy of codeweavers crossover...

You know what's even easier? I could install a version of Windows that I already own. Kind of defeats the point of Linux, though, doesn't it?

amosf · 06-29-2004, 05:38 PM

Considering the price of photoshop, $40 for crossover is cheap :-)

When you buy crossover, you are supporting wine developement and allowing wine to get better and run more applications. Crossover is also the best solution to get many windows apps to run on linux. Sure, you can run photoshop on windows if you don't worry too much about stability or security, but that really does defeat the purpose :-)

If you want free, then use Gimp, which I prefer anyway...

anandj · 06-30-2004, 01:47 PM

On Fedora core 2 with wine -20040615, I was able to install photoshop 7.0 directly from the cd with no problems at all.

On my fedora I had already turned the prelinking off and also set exec-sheld to zero
i.e
in /etc/sysconfig/prelink set prelink=no

and
echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/exec-shield

This allows me run most applications I care about.
Office 2000 & Photoshop work perfectly now.

mrtokyo · 06-30-2004, 01:52 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by amosf
if you don't worry too much about stability or security, but that really does defeat the purpose :-)

what rubbish, man. you know as well as i do that xp is rock solid. haven't had a blue screen since i had windows 98.

amosf · 06-30-2004, 06:44 PM

Yeah, I know. Unfortunately it's solid shale :-)