QuickBooks 2001 no longer working

[dadnotgrandad]

Up until 26 May, Quickbooks 2001 worked flawlessly under Wine 1.6.1 under Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit. Today when it went to use it, Wine failed to load the program. I even installled program on another machine using same OS. Program will install but not run. The other day, there was an upgrade to the Linux kernel. Currenlty, 3.8.0-41 generic. Fortunately, all my PCs have Win XP Pro on another partition and I just had to move the data files to update my business accounts.

What should my next steps be?

John

[dimesio]

Try upgrading Wine, and if that doesn't fix it, post terminal output.

[dadnotgrandad]

Thank you for your reply. I just upgraded, but still came back 1.6.1

Please explainwhat you mean by post output.

John

[dadnotgrandad]

john@john-MSIboard:~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Intuit/QuickBooks$ wine qbw32.exe
modify_ldt: Invalid argument
modify_ldt: Invalid argument
modify_ldt: Invalid argument
modify_ldt: Invalid argument
modify_ldt: Invalid argument
err:seh:raise_exception Exception frame is not in stack limits => unable to dispatch exception.
john@john-MSIboard:~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Intuit/QuickBooks$

[dimesio]

That kernel update apparently backported a change that prevents 16 bit code from executing for security reasons. http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=22568

Your options are to either downgrade to an older kernel that did not include the change or upgrade to a kernel that includes the fix.

[Circlotron]

I am using QuickBooks 7.1, which is a similar age, on Wine 1.7.19 and a 3.13.0-24-generic #47-Ubuntu SMP kernel and Mint mate 17 32-bit and it seems to run okay. Would not install using 64 bit version though. Do you really need 64 bit? I liked the idea but Wine stuff seemed a bit fussy with it. Back to 32 bit again and things are mostly hunky-dory.

[dimesio]

The kernel change was only for 64 bit kernels. 16 bit apps should work fine in 32 bit systems.