Certified Fraud Prep Exam

[kgalbraith]

Hello everyone,

I am new to WINE, and it's abilities. I am trying to run a prep program that is designed for windows (obviously) and I am getting wicked errors. Sadly, the makes of the software have absolutely no knowledge of Linux. I got a direct x error, and fixed it via their solution. That lead to another error, and the vendor and I are working on this problem.

I could easily install it on her windows laptop, but we are leaving the country for 3 weeks, and bringing my laptop. So, I need to get it working on here. I am in the process of making a windows VM, but if i can get it working on WINE, I would prefer that.

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[dimesio]

Hello everyone,

I am new to WINE, and it's abilities. I am trying to run a prep program that is designed for windows (obviously) and I am getting wicked errors.

What version of Wine? If it's not the latest development release, upgrade. If this is still a problem in 1.2-rc3, run it from a terminal and post whatever messages appear. http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#run_from_terminal

[kgalbraith]

To the best of my knowledge, I have the most recent WINE. I only installed it a week ago.
I just got a reply from the CFE people. I need to have VB 6.0 sp6 runtime & MDAC 2.8. I installed both of those, but I still get the same error

I am in the process of installing a VM of windows 7, so I cannot check your solution until that is done. (install doesn't like me doing other shiet)

thanks

[dimesio]

To the best of my knowledge, I have the most recent WINE. I only installed it a week ago.

When you installed it is meaningless; many distros ship with outdated versions of Wine. Open a terminal and type wine --version to find out the version you have.

[kgalbraith]

at this point, it's a mute issue. Something corrupted my HD, and I am forced to reinstall F13

The only thing new I did today, is install the 2 programs required by CFE to run, and tried to install a VM of win 7. Now, when I boot, I get gnome power manager not installed correctly, and my HD is unmountable if i boot with a live CD. I'm pissed as shiet over this, but luckily it's a relatively fresh install, so I won't lose that much.

[James Mckenzie]

kgalbraith <[email protected]> wrote:

at this point, it's a mute issue. Something corrupted my HD, and I am forced to
reinstall F13.

Given all that you wrote here, you should have your hardware checked out or look into using an Uninterruptable Power Supply. The only time I had a hard drive failure (I had a Deathstar, but that was a known problem with that series of drives) is when I fluctuating power which was causing the drive to loose and then suddenly gain power.

The only thing new I did today, is install the 2 programs required by CFE to run, and
tried to install a VM of win 7. Now, when I boot, I get gnome power manager not
installed correctly, and my HD is unmountable if i boot with a live CD.

Again, this looks like a hardware issue as your drive should be mountable if you boot from a Live CD of Fedora.

Good luck resolving the problem.

I would like to investigate this, so I'll be looking for the CFE programs, if they are available on-line.

James McKenzie

[Martin Gregorie]

On Tue, 2010-06-15 at 13:46 -0500, kgalbraith wrote:

at this point, it's a mute issue. Something corrupted my HD, and I am
forced to reinstall F13

The only thing new I did today, is install the 2 programs required by
CFE to run, and tried to install a VM of win 7.

Is it possible that, while installing W7 in the VM, you managed to
reformat the disk as NTFS and/or damage the partition table?

Now, when I boot, I get gnome power manager not installed correctly,
and my HD is unmountable if i boot with a live CD.

If you haven't yet overwritten the disk, I suggest you boot the F13 DVD
in recovery mode and look at the partitions to see if all the partitions
you originally created are still there and what they are formatted as.
Hopefully this will help you work out what went wrong.

If the VM/W7 install caused the problem if might be a good idea to set
the disk up for dual boot and get both F13 and W7 installed and bootable
before doing anything else. Older Windows installers were most unwilling
to share a disk with a second OS. If this also applies to W7's installer
then install W7 first, leaving plenty of unallocated disk space. Then
install F13 in this space: we know that the Fedora installer is happy to
work this way. Hint: do a custom install so you get to specify the Linux
partition(s), their sizes and which partitions get formatted rather than
leaving it to the installer's default set-up.

Of course, this assumes that the VM can be installed and configured to
run a pre-existing W7 installation.

In any case, as soon as you have F13 running again I suggest you get the
W7 set-up running in the VM before you do more than minimal set-up on
the Linux side.


Martin

[kgalbraith]

I spent some time going through all of this. I was floored and my resident unix/linux expert was dumbfounded this series of events happened. He said to the best of his knowledge, and he runs IT for a top 5 bank, these errors are not related, do not happen because of each other, and utterly amazed I managed to get them all at once.

The gnome-power issue is easily resolved by uninstaling, and reinstalling. However, my HD saying it's full, with 70g spare, prevents that from happening.

When I booted into live, it asked me for my encryption key, which i presented, it then said the drive was unmountable. I tried F13, F12, Knoppix, Ughbuttu, and Kasparsky's I checked my disk for errors, and it came out fine.

I decided to reinstall, but the first time it crashed. I bugged thinking my HD was completely destroyed. Second time through it went no problems, and other than the kernal panic trying to get the terrible b43 wifi drive set up, I'm golden.

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