Utorrent 1.8 / 1.8.1 beta doesn't work under Wine 1.1.3

[deathnoise]

It starts properly, but when you choose to add any torrent-> it just can't connect to any tracker... So it doesn't allow you to download ANYTHING.

It says, under "Trackers" tab: "Hostname not found"...

[dermarcus]

Using uTorrent 1.8.1 rev 11903 under Wine 1.1.3 under Ubuntu 8.04 i can not confirm this.

[Firon]

11903 is a broken release btw. Please update to 11962.

[deathnoise]

I'm using Freebsd 7.0 with Wine 1.3.1 and the newest version - Utorrent 1.8.1 beta build 12024

IT DOESN'T WORK

It can't even check if there's a new version of utorrent available-> i'm getting this: "Unable to contact Utorrent update server"

I also checked BitComet - and it's working properly.. On the same OS platform, the same Wine 1.3.1...

So, it's not a problem with my conf or something...

[thelittlefire]

... have you changed any of the networking configuration options in Preferences?

[hugootto]

I use Ubuntu 8.04 with Wine 1.3.1 and µTorrent 1.8.1 Beta build 1204 and it works perfectly. As it has with all the previous beta versions. No problem at all!

[Ultima]

Wine is at 1.1.3 ATM... :|

@deathnoise: Hm. Have you tried a clean install of µTorrent?

[hugootto]

Sorry, typo: Wine 1.1.3!

[lwindschuh]

@deathnoise: Use this LD_PRELOAD-able wrapper.

I think, this is a wine problem. Because getaddrinfo is called with ai_socktype=0 as hint, which makes the FreeBSD getaddrinfo fail with EAI_SERVICE, as seen in debugging output.

But this is valid on windows, so wine has to be extended on FreeBSD in order to prevent getaddrinfo calls with ai_socktype=0.

Compile this file (gcc -shared -o foobar.so foobar.c):

#include <string.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <netdb.h>
#include <dlfcn.h>

static int (*next_getaddrinfo)(const char *hostname, const char *servname, const   struct addrinfo *hints, struct addrinfo **res) = NULL;

int getaddrinfo(const char *hostname, const char *servname,
  const struct addrinfo *hints, struct addrinfo **res) {
  const char *msg;
  int ret;

  struct addrinfo my_hints;

  if(next_getaddrinfo == NULL) {
    next_getaddrinfo = dlsym(RTLD_NEXT, "getaddrinfo");

    if ((msg = dlerror()) != NULL) {
      fprintf(stderr, "ioctl: dlopen failed : %s\n", msg);
      fflush(stderr);
      exit(1);
    }
  }

  my_hints = *hints;

  if(hints->ai_socktype == 0) {
    my_hints.ai_socktype = SOCK_STREAM;
  }
  ret = next_getaddrinfo(hostname, servname, &my_hints, res);
  fprintf(stderr, "getaddrinfo(%s, %s, {family=%x,socktype=%x,protocol=%x})\n",    hostname, servname, my_hints.ai_family,my_hints.ai_socktype,my_hints.ai_protocol);
  fflush(stderr);
  return ret;
}

[Firon]

You should probably file that as a bug or something for Wine so they can incorporate the fix into their own codebase.