Wine won't work anymore

joelop · Post by **joelop** » Tue Jun 09, 2009 12:22 pm

Hi All,

I'm trying Ubuntu 9.04 these days and Wine to help me with some Win applications. 2-3 days ago I installed Ares and Wine worked perfectly. Since then I can't make it work anymore. When I download an .exe application Wine just 'shakes' my screen but does nothing more. I've even tried the 'Open with Wine' option and I get the same result.

Any clue on what can be happening?

J.

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Tue Jun 09, 2009 12:24 pm

On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 12:22 PM, joelop<[email protected]> wrote:

Hi All,

I'm trying Ubuntu 9.04 these days and Wine to help me with some Win applications. 2-3 days ago I installed Ares and Wine worked perfectly. Since then I can't make it work anymore. When I download an .exe application Wine just 'shakes' my screen but does nothing more. I've even tried the 'Open with Wine' option and I get the same result.

Any clue on what can be happening?

Video card/drivers?

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-Austin

John Drescher · Post by **John Drescher** » Tue Jun 09, 2009 12:27 pm

On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 1:22 PM, joelop<[email protected]> wrote:

Hi All,

I'm trying Ubuntu 9.04 these days and Wine to help me with some Win applications. 2-3 days ago I installed Ares and Wine worked perfectly. Since then I can't make it work anymore. When I download an .exe application Wine just 'shakes' my screen but does nothing more. I've even tried the 'Open with Wine' option and I get the same result.

Any clue on what can be happening?

No. Some terminal output would help us in debugging the issue.

John

Gert van den Berg · Post by **Gert van den Berg** » Tue Jun 09, 2009 12:44 pm

On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 19:22, joelop<[email protected]> wrote:

Hi All,

I'm trying Ubuntu 9.04 these days and Wine to help me with some Win applications. 2-3 days ago I installed Ares and Wine worked perfectly. Since then I can't make it work anymore. When I download an .exe application Wine just 'shakes' my screen but does nothing more. I've even tried the 'Open with Wine' option and I get the same result.

Any clue on what can be happening?

You should be able to fix wine by cleaning out your WINEPREFIX
($HOME/.wine by default), but you would need to install applications
from scratch... Finding the problem is a better solution...

http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-9893ae5 ... af2e69b391

About the screen shaking thing: Is desktop effects disabled? It is
known to cause issues with Wine.
http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-db2fa15 ... 768ec6ec47

Gert