Here is a extract of my posting on Ubuntu forum that so far has not solved my problem: "I have been using Wine and the programs for the past 12 months without any hitches under 32bit 8.04 and 8.10. I did a clean install of 64bit 9.04 and installed wine and the programs I need to run. It behaved oddly right from the start and then just stopped. You can see the program trying to start, and then shuts down.
I am wondering if there is some issue with the 64 bit version of Ubuntu and Wine.
I had tried the 64bit version of 8.04 on this computer but had all sorts of weird things happen and settled on the 32 bit version which worked fine. It could well be the hardware on this particular machine. Its an AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ on a Gigabyte GA-K8NSC-939 motherboard."
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Re: Wine fails to load programs You should try opening a terminal as your normal user and running a program with wine from there. You know what, open another terminal window as root and do the same thing.
Can you post both results? Let's see what we get from there.
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" Re: Wine fails to load programs Plain termiminal gets this reply:
peter@shop:~$ wine mailwasher
wine: could not load L"C:\\windows\\system32\\mailwasher.exe": Module not found
peter@shop:~$ libgcc_s.so.1 must be installed for pthread_cancel to work
wine client error:12: write: Bad file descriptor
libgcc_s.so.1 must be installed for pthread_cancel to work
err:seh:raise_exception Unhandled exception code 80000101 flags 1 addr 0xf7f82425
wine client error:12: write: Bad file descriptor
libgcc_s.so.1 must be installed for pthread_cancel to work
err:seh:raise_exception Unhandled exception code 80000101 flags 1 addr 0xf7f82425
wine client error:12: write: Bad file descriptor
peter@shop:~$
Here is a extract of my posting on Ubuntu forum that so far has not solved my problem:
"I have been using Wine and the programs for the past 12 months without any hitches under 32bit 8.04 and 8.10. I did a clean install of 64bit 9.04 and installed wine and the programs I need to run. It behaved oddly right from the start and then just stopped. You can see the program trying to start, and then shuts down.
I am wondering if there is some issue with the 64 bit version of Ubuntu and Wine.
I had tried the 64bit version of 8.04 on this computer but had all sorts of weird things happen and settled on the 32 bit version which worked fine. It could well be the hardware on this particular machine. Its an AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ on a Gigabyte GA-K8NSC-939 motherboard."
Reply:
Re: Wine fails to load programs
You should try opening a terminal as your normal user and running a program with wine from there. You know what, open another terminal window as root and do the same thing.
Can you post both results? Let's see what we get from there.
Reply:
" Re: Wine fails to load programs
Plain termiminal gets this reply:
Code:
peter@shop:~$ wine mailwasher
wine: could not load L"C:\\windows\\system32\\mailwasher.exe": Module not found
You need to be in the directory with that exe. 'cd' there.
peter@shop:~$ sudo wine mailwasher
wine: /home/peter/.wine is not owned by you
I installed Ubuntu 9.04 64-bit on a test partition that I have. I thought I would give it a shot and see how well it ran wine. For the most part it seems to run HL2 based games (i.e. Team Fortress 2) really well. After some tweaking the FPS is great on DX 8.1. The only problem is that after about 20-30 minutes of playing it would just exit and give me an error message saying "This application has encountered a problem and needs to close."
I am unable to restart TF2 as it thinks there is already process running and it has a lock on the registry. Indeed, there was a defunct process I found with ps -ef so I have to kill it. I don't remember if I also had to reboot or not.
I have Ubuntu 8.10 32-bit on another partition (so it's the exact same hardware) and I can play TF2 on that for hours straight without a problem. I'm not sure if it's a problem with Ubuntu 9.04 or the 64-bit wine but it happens every time if the game is running long enough. (I suppose I could install another 64-bit distro and see what happens)
I have run into some other problems with applications not being supported on 64-bit platforms so I have just decided to continue to use 32-bit distros for now.
I have a feeling that it is a combination of hardware and 64bit.
I have tried uninstalling Wine and reinstalling. I even deleted the .wine folder to make sure. When I reinstall Wine by rights it should be a clean install with no memory of any previous installs. But for some reason it still shows the previous Wine and any programs installed under it in the Applications startup drop down bar. So it would appear that there is somewhere something that is left behind from the previous installation. I have searched for it but cannot locate anything. Any ideas?
I am almost at the point of calling it a day and going back to 32bit. I had an interesting time with the scheduled updates. It suddenly could not locate its libraries and could only do partial updates. I got it sorted in the end, but it took a bit of doing and a lot of help from fellow Linux nuts. The other programs seem to work OK, but I don't really trust the peace.
