Description of problem: "https://download.microsoft.com/download/6/C/D/6CD681EB-A8FA-4527-8788-AA38FBD1D740/Microsoft Visual TrueType-32.msi" and "https://download.microsoft.com/download/6/C/D/6CD681EB-A8FA-4527-8788-AA38FBD1D740/Microsoft Visual TrueType-64.msi" both from http://aka.ms/vtt . [Hin-Tak@localhost 5]$ msiextract a.msi ** (msiextract:280663): CRITICAL **: 01:32:09.039: string table load failed! (00035393 != 00025393), please report /tmp/5/lsdsemihi: Error opening file /tmp/5/lsdsemihi: No such file or directory [Hin-Tak@localhost 5]$ msiextract b.msi ** (msiextract:280691): CRITICAL **: 01:32:19.600: string table load failed! (00035395 != 00025395), please report /tmp/5/dsemihidd: Error opening file /tmp/5/dsemihidd: No such file or directory $ rpm -qf /usr/bin/msiextract msitools-0.98-1.fc28.x86_64 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): msitools-0.98-1.fc28.x86_64 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. download the two msi files as above 2. try msiextract on them Actual results: fails as above Expected results: should succeed Additional info: These are official microsoft provided msi's so their validity is not in doubt. also, you can run "wine msiexec /i " to install either of them also, so obviously wine's msi extraction code works; msitools's does not.
Perhaps the string has an embedded NULL? The Wine code got support for that right after it was forked into msitools: https://github.com/tigersoldier/wine/commits/master/dlls/msi/string.c
See https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/msitools/merge_requests/5
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