Complete newby - Hardy/Wine/Smart Ideas hangs on start

[d3b]

Just started playing with Linux after many years with PCs and 18 months of Mac.

Installed latest version from web following instructions for Hardy.
Installed Smart Ideas although does not show in list of apps
Run app, hangs during startup appearing to stall, running from terminal error messages are as follows:-

david@playroom:~$ wine "C:\program files\smart ideas 5\bin\ideas.exe"
>>>UserProfile loc: C:\windows\profiles\david\Application Data\SMART Technologies Inc\SMART Ideas
2008-12-28 11:43:59 Warning: Unable to load 'Server.properties': Server.properties (File not found)
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x32bb7c,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:font:WineEngCreateFontInstance Untranslated charset 255


** At this point the start stalls and progresses no further - following control-C **


An unexpected error has been detected by HotSpot Virtual Machine:

Internal Error (0xc000013a), pid=8, tid=9

Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (1.5.0_13-b05 mixed mode)
Problematic frame:
C 0xb7f2640e

fixme:msvcrt:MSVCRT__sopen : pmode 0x01b6 ignored
An error report file with more information is saved as hs_err_pid8.log

If you would like to submit a bug report, please visit:
http://java.sun.com/webapps/bugreport/crash.jsp

david@playroom:~$

Any ideas (sic) ??

[vitamin]

david@playroom:~$ wine "C:\program files\smart ideas 5\bin\ideas.exe"

Try 'cd'ing into the above directory first. Some programs won't run unless you are in their directory.

[d3b]

Thanks vitamin, tried that, unfortunately it makes no difference to either the result or the error message. tried Googling server.propertiesand Wine, but there are no further clues on the web or the forum, no even enough to give me a clue as to the direction I should be looking in for the problem.

[vitamin]

Thanks vitamin, tried that, unfortunately it makes no difference to either the result or the error message. tried Googling server.propertiesand Wine, but there are no further clues on the web or the forum, no even enough to give me a clue as to the direction I should be looking in for the problem.

Look for that "Server.properties" file. Also look at the link Wine created. It could have totally different work path.