1 This file describes where to start debugging Wine and how to write
7 These usually show up like this:
9 |Unexpected Windows program segfault - opcode = 8b
10 |Segmentation fault in Windows program 1b7:c41.
11 |Reading symbols from file /root/wine/wine.sym
14 | CS:01b7 SS:016f DS:0287 ES:0000
15 | IP:0c41 SP:878a BP:8796 FLAGS:0246
16 | AX:811e BX:0000 CX:0000 DX:0000 SI:0001 DI:ffff
18 |0x016f:0x878a: 0001 016f ffed 0000 0000 0287 890b 1e5b
19 |0x016f:0x879a: 01b7 0001 000d 1050 08b7 016f 0001 000d
20 |0x016f:0x87aa: 000a 0003 0004 0000 0007 0007 0190 0000
23 |0050: sel=0287 base=40211d30 limit=0b93f (bytes) 16-bit rw-
25 |0 0x01b7:0x0c41 (PXSRV.FONGETFACENAME+0x7c)
26 |1 0x01b7:0x1e5b (PXSRV.FONPUTCATFONT+0x2cd)
28 |3 0x01b7:0x0768 (PXSRV.FONINITFONTS+0x81)
29 |4 0x014f:0x03ed (PDOXWIN.@SQLCURCB$Q6CBTYPEULN8CBSCTYPE+0x1b1)
32 |0x01b7:0x0c41 (PXSRV.FONGETFACENAME+0x7c): movw %es:0x38(%bx),%dx
34 Steps to debug a crash. You may stop at any step, but please report the bug
35 and provide as much of the information gathered to the newsgroup or the
36 relevant developer as feasonable.
38 1. Get the reason for the crash. This is usually an access to an invalid
39 selector, an access to an out of range address in a valid selector,
40 popping a segmentregister from the stack or the like. When reporting a
41 crash, report this WHOLE crashdump even if it doesn't make sense to you.
43 (In this case it is access to an invalid selector, for %es is 0000, as
44 seen in the register dump).
46 2. Determine where the reason came from.
47 Since this is usually a primary/secondary reaction to a failed or
48 misbehaving Wine function, rerun Wine with "-debugmsg +relay" (without ")
49 added to the commandline. This will get rather much output, but usually
50 the reason is located in the last call(s). Those lines usually look like
53 |Call KERNEL.90: LSTRLEN(0227:0692) ret=01e7:2ce7 ds=0227
54 ^^^^^^^^^ ^ ^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^
55 | | | | |Datasegment on entry
56 | | | |Return address.
58 | | |Argument(s). This one is a win16 segmented pointer.
60 |The module, the function is called in. In this case it is KERNEL.
62 |Ret KERNEL.90: LSTRLEN() retval=0x0007 ret=01e7:2ce7 ds=0227
64 |Returnvalue is 16 bit and has the value 7.
66 3. If you have found a misbehaving function, try to find out why it
67 misbehaves. Find the function in the source code. Try to make sense of
68 the arguments passed. Usually there is a
69 "dprintf_xyz(stddeb,"Fnction(...)"...);" at the beginning of the
70 function. Rerun wine with "-debugmsg +xyz,+relay" added to the
74 4. If those information isn't clear enough or if you want to know more about
75 what's happening in the function itself, try running wine with "-debugmsg
76 +all", which dumps ALL included debug information in wine.
78 5. If that isn't enough add more debug output for yourself into the
79 functions you find relevant.
81 6. You can also set a breakpoint for that function. Start wine with the
82 "-debug" option added to the commandline. After loading the executable
83 wine will enter the internal debugger. Use "break KERNEL.LSTRLEN"
84 (replace by function you want to debug, CASE IS RELEVANT.) to set a
85 breakpoint. Then use "continue" to start normal program-execution. Wine
86 will stop if it reaches the breakpoint. If the program isn't yet at the
87 crashing call of that function, use "continue" again until you are about
88 to enter that function. You may now proceed with single-stepping the
89 function until you reach the point of crash. Use the other debugger
90 commands to print registers and the like.
93 Program hangs, nothing happens
94 ==============================
96 Switch to UNIX shell, get the process-ID using "ps -a|grep wine", and do a
97 "kill -HUP <pid>" (without " and <>). Wine will then enter its internal
98 debugger and you can procede as explained above.
100 Program reports an error with a Messagebox
101 ==========================================
103 Sometimes programs are reporting failure using a more or less nondescript
104 messageboxes. We can debug this using the same method as Crashes, but there
105 is one problem... For setting up a message box the program also calls Wine
106 producing huge chunks of debug code.
108 Since the failure happens usually directly before setting up the Messagebox
109 you can start wine with "-debug" added to the commandline, set a breakpoint
110 at "USER.MESSAGEBOX" (win16 programs) "USER32.MessageBox" (win32 Programs)
111 and proceed with "continue". With "-debugmsg +all" Wine will now stop
112 directly directly before setting up the Messagebox. Proceed as explained
116 Sample debugging session:
117 =========================
119 Let's debug the infamous Word SHARE.EXE messagebox:
121 |marcus@jet $ wine winword.exe
122 | +---------------------------------------------+
123 | | ! You must leave Windows and load SHARE.EXE|
124 | | before starting Word. |
125 | +---------------------------------------------+
128 |marcus@jet $ wine winword.exe -debugmsg +relay -debug
129 |CallTo32(func=08007e00,000001c4,00000081,00000000,00000000)
130 |CallTo32(func=08007e00,000001c4,00000014,000006d0,00000000)
131 |Win16 task 'winword': Breakpoint 1 at 0x0157:0x001a
132 |CallTo16(func=0097:0130,ds=0000)
133 |Call WPROCS.24: TASK_RESCHEDULE() ret=003f:0759 ds=0000
134 |Ret WPROCS.24: TASK_RESCHEDULE() retval=0x0000 ret=003f:0759 ds=08a7
135 |CallTo16(func=0157:001a,ds=08a7,0x11d7,0x0000,0x0000,0x3cb4,0x1f40,0x0000,0x0000,0x08a7)
136 |Reading symbols from file /root/wine/wine.sym
137 |Stopped on breakpoint 1 at 0x0157:0x001a
139 |0x0157:0x001a: xorw %bp,%bp
140 |Wine-dbg> break USER.MESSAGEBOX <---- Set Breakpoint
141 |Breakpoint 2 at 0x0067:0x00000000 (USER.MESSAGEBOX)
142 |Wine-dbg>c <---- Continue
143 |Call KERNEL.91: INITTASK() ret=0157:0022 ds=08a7
144 | AX=0000 BX=3cb4 CX=1f40 DX=0000 SI=0000 DI=08a7 ES=11d7 EFL=00000286
145 |CallTo16(func=090f:085c,ds=0dcf,0x0000,0x0000,0x0000,0x0000,0x0800,0x0000,0x0000,0x0dcf)
146 |... <----- Much debugoutput
147 |Call KERNEL.97: GETTEMPFILENAME(0x00c3,08a7:8350,0x0000,08a7:8234) ret=058f:09b1 ds=08a7
154 |Ret KERNEL.97: GETTEMPFILENAME() retval=0xce3f ret=058f:09b1 ds=08a7
158 |Call KERNEL.74: OPENFILE(08a7:8234,08a7:82c6,0x1012) ret=058f:09d8 ds=08a7
164 |Ret KERNEL.74: OPENFILE() retval=0xffff ret=058f:09d8 ds=08a7
166 | -1 aka. HFILE_ERROR
168 |Stopped on breakpoint 2 at 0x0067:0x00000000 (USER.MESSAGEBOX)
170 |0x0067:0x00000000 (USER.MESSAGEBOX): pushw %bp
172 Now, we see that OPENFILE seem to have returned 0xFFFF (or -1). Checking
173 the implementation of OpenFile in files/file.c, this signals an error.
174 The mode flags (OF_READWRITE|OF_SHARE_EXCLUSIVE|OF_CREATE) seems to
175 indicate, that WinWord wants to open the file for writing, so we check
176 the filename. Since we don't see the filename in this debugoutput, we use
177 the dprintf_file() in OpenFile to print out more information by adding
178 "-debugmsg +relay" to the commandline.
180 (In fact, we see that the filename has been returned by the GetTempFileName
181 function above, but we check it anyway.)
183 |marcus@jet $ wine winword.exe -debugmsg +relay,+file -debug
184 |.....much more debugoutput .....
186 |Call KERNEL.97: GETTEMPFILENAME(0x00c3,08a7:8350,0x0000,08a7:8234) ret=058f:09b1 ds=08a7
187 |FILE_Create: 'C:~docd03d.tmp' 01b6 1
188 |FILE_SetDosError: errno = 13
189 |GetTempFileName: returning C:\~DOCD03D.TMP
190 |Ret KERNEL.97: GETTEMPFILENAME() retval=0xd03d ret=058f:09b1 ds=08a7
191 |Call KERNEL.74: OPENFILE(08a7:8234,08a7:82c6,0x1012) ret=058f:09d8 ds=08a7
192 |OpenFile: C:\~DOCD03D.TMP 1012
193 |FILE_AllocTaskHandle: returning task handle 1, dos_file 0, file 1 of 254
194 |FILE_Create: 'C:\~DOCD03D.TMP' 01b6 0
195 |FILE_SetDosError: errno = 13
196 |OpenFile(C:\~DOCD03D.TMP): return = HFILE_ERROR
197 |FILE_FreeTaskHandle: dos=1 file=0
198 |Ret KERNEL.74: OPENFILE() retval=0xffff ret=058f:09d8 ds=08a7
200 The filename is "C:\~DOCD03D.TMP". Of course, C:\ is writeable for the
201 superuser only, so the open fails for a normal user and OpenFile returns
202 -1, which in turn generates this messagebox.
205 Written by Marcus Meissner <msmeissn@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>,