Lionel Ulmer reported some serious problems running Wine with XFree86 4.0. This is because XFree86 4.0 includes OpenGL and other extensions that depends on the standard threading system (normally pthreads), while Wine implements its own threading system to mimic Win32's.

Before a reasonable fix is found, several (more or less nasty) workarounds are available:

• You may want to apply Ove's updated unofficial pthread hack to see if it helps the situation. (Previous discussions of this hack and why it is not in the official Wine releases can be found here and here)
• disable OpenGL support in Wine (at compilation time)
• wait before upgrading to XFree86 (ok, that's not a decent long term proposal, but before a fix is applied, it may be the easiest one)

Matthew Cline reported some socket connections issues with Real Player 7. He investigated a bit the issue, and it turned out that the server was confused by receiving two simultaneous events (some data are to be read, and the connection has been closed), and wasn't reporting all the information (and the data) back to the application.

Ove Kåven promptly proposed a fix, but was unsure of the utter correctness of it. Alexandre Julliard confirmed that it was the way to go, even if the implementation details remained to be revisited (mostly by changing a bit the socket handling).

Ove, Alexandre and Alex Korobka discussed then further the implementation.

Andreas Mohr announced that he put up another CVS mirror for the Wine tree.
CVSROOT=:pserver:cvs@rhlx01.fht-esslingen.de:/home/wine
and password is cvs.

Andreas also added that users shouldn't been annoyed by the harmless
cvs server: cannot open /root/.cvsignore: Permission denied
message: Many CVS servers have this problem and nobody seems to know how to prevent the server from accessing /root/.cvsignore.