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System hangs when starting wine

Asked by ABonifacio

I installed wine in a ubuntu 7.10 but everytime I tried to start wine my system will hang and I have to reboot.

I've tried reinstalling but I had similar result There was no improvement on a newly installed ubuntu.

I've tried running winecfg on a command line; the system also hanged. But it was able to create a .wine directory before crashing.

Trying a debug, I did a WINEDEBUG=all+err winecfg > errList. It gave a short feedback about paging and something about following a thread. The message was in the previous installation of ubuntu and I could not recreate the error message in the new installation. No error message returned.

Looks like some memory problem.

My PC: Amd Duron 1.0 gigahertz
              743mb total memory
               Ubuntu 7.10 gutsy gibbon

I saw some posting similar to this one:
System hangs when I try to configure Wine (Answered)
posted on 2007-10-27 by Bob Pearson in Ubuntu .

The adviced was to post a bug report. Not much help in running wine.

What to do?

ABonifacio

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Bert Van de Poel (bhack) said : 		#1

try the following, when your system hangs, press CTRL + ALT + F2, then you switch to terminal mode, login and typ the command sudo top and check which processes are using recourses and how much of them (memory & CPU power).

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ABonifacio (ikingp) said : 		#2

Bert Van de Poel,

Thank you for your reply.

My PC totally hangs. No response even following your suggestion of pressing CTRL + ALT + F2.

I found the error list following the command line,

WINEDEBUG=all+err winecfg > errList

The message is:

wine: creating configuration directory '/home/ABonifacio/.wine'...
wine: Unhandled page fault on read access to 0x00000348 at address 0x7e6e55ec (thread 0009), starting debugger...
Can't attach process 0008: error 5

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The directory name that winecfg create is peculiar - .wine followed by a random set of letters; say .wine-AxhlG. Everytime I try running winecfg it creates another .wine-randomLettered directory. Apparently it does not read the previous directory it has created. Maybe because it has not completed any processes.

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Bert Van de Poel (bhack) said : 		#3

are you using the wine form multi/universe or the winehq channel ?

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ABonifacio (ikingp) said : 		#4

I used the wine from multi/universe.

But I am trying out from winehq in an effort to get wine running on my system. I compiled it using the script ./tools/wineinstall. It was looking for X11 development fonts / headers. I will try to install these development files and try again.

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ABonifacio (ikingp) said : 		#5

Problem solved..

In my initial try on compiling wine, it told me that I needed X11 drivers, OpenGL development headers and FontForge.

Using synaptic package manager, I downloaded and installed the following:
for X11
   libxaw7-dev
   libxaw-headers
   libfontenc-dev
for OpenGL
   libgl1-mesa-gl1
   libglu1-mesa
   libx11-6
for FontForge
   FontForge

This time compilation and installation was completed ( takes several hours to compile it on my slow pc). I run winecfg ( from a command line as there is no menu entry in gnome for wine using this method) and now the setup screen appeared. I tried running notepad, again a success.

Now time to play with microsoft software in linux. Exciting!.