black screen and crash - HeidiSQL 11, Wine 5.0, Ubuntu 20.04

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Mondane
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black screen and crash - HeidiSQL 11, Wine 5.0, Ubuntu 20.04

Post by Mondane »

When I start HeidiSQL, my screen blinks to black a few times and then halts at a black screen. After waiting a few minutes, my OS becomes usable again, but all applications are closed. This won't happen for instance for `wine notepad`.

Using:

* HeidiSQL 11.0.0.5919 ( https://www.heidisql.com/ )
* Wine 5.0.2
* Ubuntu Unity 20.04.1 ( https://ubuntuunity.org/ )
* Laptop: Dell Precision 7550

What could this be?

NB When I set Wine to emulate a virtual desktop, the blinking isn't there and HeidiSQL can start. But this isn't a workable solution for me.
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Re: black screen and crash - HeidiSQL 11, Wine 5.0, Ubuntu 20.04

Post by patro777 »

Have you solved this issue? I have the same problem.

Ubuntu 20.04
Unity desktop
Wine 5.22
HeidiSQL 11.1
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Re: black screen and crash - HeidiSQL 11, Wine 5.0, Ubuntu 20.04

Post by Mondane »

Not yet. I've kept the virtual desktop.

Switching to 6.x doesn't work either and gives me another issue of starting up everything like a slideshow.
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Re: black screen and crash - HeidiSQL 11, Wine 5.0, Ubuntu 20.04

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Re: black screen and crash - HeidiSQL 11, Wine 5.0, Ubuntu 20.04

Post by andrew.smart »

Mondane wrote: Wed Sep 16, 2020 4:38 am When I start HeidiSQL, my screen blinks to black a few times and then halts at a black screen. After waiting a few minutes, my OS becomes usable again, but all applications are closed.
Sounds to me like your Xorg/Wayland backend crashes and GDM (or whatever) automatically restarts a session. Go to the Ubuntu forum, they'll help you read your logs and figure out what the problems on your particular system are.

Given the platinum/gold ratings for HeidiSQL in the AppDB, the problem you described is almost certainly not an issue with Wine.
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Re: black screen and crash - HeidiSQL 11, Wine 5.0, Ubuntu 20.04

Post by fargodwe »

Indeed, I run linux mint 20 and I just downloaded and ran the installer to a test 64bit prefix and the program does start ok for me.
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