Office 2013 freezes after wine update

[natrix]

Hi forum!!

I had been using MS Office 2013 with wine-3.0.3. It works very fine!

When I update to wine-4.0, all MSO13 programs freeze (in ‘file’ menu), and freeze the all PC too.

What is the problem? Can you help me?

I use Gentoo linux with kernel-4.19.23. I could not get the log file

[Bob Wya]

Hi forum!!

I had been using MS Office 2013 with wine-3.0.3. It works just fine!

When I updated to wine-4.0, all MSO13 programs freeze (in ‘file’ menu), and the whole PC freezes as well.

What is the problem? Can you help me?
...

I gather newer MS Office versions use some DirectX 11 features (no idea why this is needed for an office suite, but there you go)...
I personally just Libreoffice - so I cannot comment on this on the accuracy of this...

What's the output from:

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inxi -G

Wine, which runs in 'user space', can't "freeze your machine"...
So it's most likely to be a kernel / graphics driver issue (a system API call made by by Wine)...

The classic trick for getting a terminal logs, when your machine locks up, is to ssh in from another machine.
You may be able to recover a Wine terminal log by doing this...

Ta
Bob

[natrix]

Hi Bob Wya!

It is the output:

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$ inxi -G 
Resuming in non X mode: xrandr not found. For package install advice run: inxi --recommends 
Graphics:  Card: NVIDIA GF108 [GeForce GT 630] 
          Display Server: N/A drivers: nouveau (unloaded: modesetting,fbdev,vesa) tty size: 133x31

I gather newer MS Office versions use some DirectX 11 features

I read the same.

Wine, which runs in 'user space', can't "freeze your machine"...

Yes, it is true. I use Plasma, but when I open a MSO16 program (on W-4.0), I lose control of the keyboard and mouse… and the music stops play .

Here additional information about Gentoo flags: https://pastebin.com/qQCetxCH

Thanks bob!!

[Bob Wya]

Hi Bob Wya!

Here is the output:

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$ inxi -G 
Resuming in non X mode: xrandr not found. For package install advice run: inxi --recommends 
Graphics:  Card: NVIDIA GF108 [GeForce GT 630] 
          Display Server: N/A drivers: nouveau (unloaded: modesetting,fbdev,vesa) tty size: 133x31

That doesn't sound good. You might need to install the Nvidia proprietary driver there bud...
If you want to use Open Source graphics drivers then AMD (or now Intel - since they are on the "Gallium" train) hardware is the way to go.

The USE flags on app-emulation/wine-vanilla are fine btw.

Bob

[natrix]

What?!! Nouveau not work?! Could MSO16-w4 works with Vulkan?

So, why MSO16 work fine on w-3.03 but not in w-4.0? What is the difference?

Thanks bob!!

[bernd_b]

From my research, there is still no way to activate Office 2013, so after a while you will run in a non-functional installation. Did you manage it?

[natrix]

Hi Bob Wya:
nvidia-drivers solved the issues. Good bye nouveau!
Thanks!!

bernd_b: one problem at the same time!!

[Bob Wya]

Nice

Bob