Hi everyone I'm looking for a bit of help I'm fairly new to Linux and completely new to Wine, but I installed Wine on Linux Mint 12 and then installed quickbooks 2003, Quickbooks runs ok but when I exit I get a message "Quickbooks has encountered an error" (Can't remember the rest) after that Quckbooks will not load again until I restart Linux I don't get any error messages just nothing happens but once restarted it will up again, Any help would be much appreciated. Many Thanks Graeme
On Tue, 2012-01-10 at 13:05 -0600, Emegra wrote:> I'm looking for a bit of help I'm fairly new to Linux and completely > new to Wine, but I installed Wine on Linux Mint 12 and then installed > quickbooks 2003, Quickbooks runs ok but when I exit I get a message > "Quickbooks has encountered an error" (Can't remember the rest) after > that Quckbooks will not load again until I restart Linux I don't get > any error messages just nothing happens but once restarted it will up > again, Any help would be much appreciated. >Will it restart again if you simply log out and log in again instead of rebooting Linux? If so, try this: 1) log out and login again. 2) from the console, start a new shell (run the 'bash' command with no parameters) and then run Quickbooks. 3) When it has exited (with the usual crash) run the "ps" command and let us know what you see. If two copies of bash are shown, run the "exit" command. running "ps" again should now show a single copy of bash. 4) will Quickbooks run again it run again if you repeat steps 2 and 3? Martin
Hi Martin Thanks for your reply, I'l have to try what you suggest tomorrow when I'm at work, but what I did notice since writing my post is that when I close down although quckbooks goes off the screen, it is still running in the task manager, if I end the process from there I can then reopen it, without having to reboot Linux Many Thanks Graeme
Thanks again Martin ]I'm sorry but a lot of what you wrote in your last post went way over my head, I'm not particularly computer literate and although I can follow instructions i don't have the same fundamental understanding as most people on these forums of code & syntax etc. another problem I've discovered is Quickbooks will also crash when I try to backup, also the shut down problem only happens if I have a company file loaded. I've tried various command line instructions to get Quickbooks to load from terminal without success could you please tell me what format the command should be to get Quickbooks to open from the terminal, the path is wine/c/Intuit/Program Files/qbw32.exe. Many Thanks Graeme
Hi, i am also facing this problem and thanks for suggestions to all..... :)
Hi Martin I tried what you suggested, while running quickbooks wineboot --force didn't do anything, but wineserver -k shut down Quickbooks immediately and I was able to start it again without restarting Linux or closing the quickbooks process in task manager, You are right about the path my mistake I'm sorry, I know absolutely nothing about writing or executing scripts so to be honest Linux for Dummies would probably be an apt title for me and I'm certainly not a power user in any operating system, I have no doubt your script would work and I'm sure I can follow you with a little more instruction but this still doesn't solve my problem of Quickbooks crashing when I try to back up and if this isn't solvable then there is no point in me wasting your time trying to solve anything else, apart from that I can't be completely sure there are no other latent problems that I don't know of yet, I don't want to appear negative Martin and certainly not unappreciative but my computing knowledge is very limited and the last thing I want to do is waste your time or anyone elses trying to teach the unteachable Many Thanks Graeme
Hi Martin Thanks again for your help but I'm gonna test your patience a little now because I'm feeling this is getting a bit ahead of me but I'm prepared to have a go if with your forbearance if we can take this one stage at a time (please bear in mind I'm a 51 year old motor mechanic with as much knowledge of computing as Gengis Khan had of flower arranging) to start with and I'm not sure if this is really important but I still can't load quickbooks from the terminal I checked the path and noticed one directory is missing which is "Quickbooks Basic" inside the Program Files Folder I tried both the syntax you posted: .wine/drive_c/Intuit/Program Files/qbw32.exe .wine/dosdevices/c:/Intuit/Program Files/qbw32.exe and then tried adding the missing directory as follows graeme at Emegra ~ $ .wine/drive_c/Intuit/Program Files/qbw32.exe bash: .wine/drive_c/Intuit/Program: No such file or directory graeme at Emegra ~ $ .wine/dosdevices/c:/Intuit/Program Files/qbw32.exe bash: .wine/dosdevices/c:/Intuit/Program: No such file or directory graeme at Emegra ~ $ .wine/drive_c/Intuit/Program Files/Quickbooks Basic/qbw32.exe bash: .wine/drive_c/Intuit/Program: No such file or directory graeme at Emegra ~ $ .wine/dosdevices/c:/Intuit/Program Files/Quickbooks Basic/qbw32.exe bash: .wine/dosdevices/c:/Intuit/Program: No such file or directory graeme at Emegra ~ $ I'm sorry if I'm trying your patience but I feel it's important that I understand what I'm doing wrong here before we proceed further Many Thanks Graeme
Just a thought but are you allowed to have spaces in a terminal command looking back at the terminal I notice the bash lines ends at "Program" next to a space ? Graeme
Hi Martin When I said the "Quickbooks Basic" folder is missing what I mean was it was missing from the path I gave you the folder is actually there so the path is wine/drive_c/Program Files/Intuit/Quickbooks Basic/qbw32.exe, I'm sorry I don't think I explained it very well. Quote: bash, the Linux shell, treats all spaces in a commend as parameter separators, so its necessary to hide them. You can either escape them by putting a backslash in front of them: .wine/drive_c/Intuit/Program\ Files/qbw32.exe On the above command I think you have the Intuit & Program Files in the wrong order but If I understand you correctly if I replace the spaces with a backslash linux will ignore the space and go to that directory so the command would be .wine/drive_c/Program\Files/Intuit/Quickbooks\Basic/qbw32.exe graeme at Emegra ~ $ .wine/drive_c/Program\Files/Intuit/Quickbooks\Basic/qbw32.exe bash: .wine/drive_c/ProgramFiles/Intuit/QuickbooksBasic/qbw32.exe: No such file or directory graeme at Emegra ~ $ Quote: I didn't notice the missing space (I should have) and so the line containing it should read: cd "$HOME/.wine/drive_c/Intuit/Program Files/qbw32.exe" I tried the above format changing the Intuit & Program Files order and adding the Quickbooks Basic folder graeme at Emegra ~ $ cd "$HOME/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Intuit/Quickbooks Basic/qbw32.exe" bash: cd: /home/graeme/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Intuit/Quickbooks Basic/qbw32.exe: No such file or directory graeme at Emegra ~ $ bash: cd: /home/graeme/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Intuit/Quickbooks Basic/qbw32.exe: No such file or directory No command 'bash:' found, did you mean: Command 'bash' from package 'bash' (main) bash:: command not found Enclosing the whole file namr in double quotes and adding a backslash between the spaces returned this. graeme at Emegra ~ $ cd "$HOME/.wine/drive_c/Program\Files/Intuit/Quickbooks\Basic/qbw32.exe" bash: cd: /home/graeme/.wine/drive_c/Program\Files/Intuit/Quickbooks\Basic/qbw32.exe: No such file or directory graeme at Emegra ~ $ I don't have a clue what I'm doing wrong but I'm obviously missing something fundamental Quote: You should really read up a little on using the command line since its essential to applying what you'll learn here: most Linux users and all developers use the command line in preference to clicking icons because its faster, easier, and lets you do more with your system.. It's obvious to me that I have a helluva lot to learn if I cant do something as simple as open a program from the terminal, and it's equally obvious that I'm wasting your time Martin the problem is that I'm a self employed man with very little time to read and study a new subject, I was only wanting to get this to work because I wanted to change my business computers over to Linux and changing to another accounting program is not an option for various reasons, however if your prepared to struggle on with me I'll keep trying but if you think I'm not up to it please say I would completely understand and wouldn't be in the least bit offended. Many Thanks Graeme