When I run the winecfg command, (after installing wine) either from the menu or by a command in Terminal after a few seconds the whole PC freezes and has to be rebooted to continue. I am running the latest Ububntu version with a reasonable spec PC. I have fully renistalled Ubuntu and also removed and reinstalled wine several times. Having searched this forum the only mention of a similar problem is quoted below. I am new to linux and wine but fairly knowlegable on PCs. Any ideas? Quote 'Running winecfg seems to hang or complain about files when I click the audio tab The hang is caused by the "NAS" sound driver. This causes it to pause for a while but it should respond eventually. The only way to get around this is to remove NAS from your system and/or build Wine without NAS support in the first place. If you see messages about JACK in the terminal they can be ignored unless you intend to use the JACK driver. If you wish to use the JACK driver then you need to install JACK's libraries onto your machine before JACK will work.'
On Tuesday 11 March 2008 07:54:02 am les wilde wrote:> When I run the winecfg command, (after installing wine) either from the > menu or by a command in Terminal after a few seconds the whole PC freezes > and has to be rebooted to continue. I am running the latest Ububntu version > with a reasonable spec PC. I have fully renistalled Ubuntu and also removed > and reinstalled wine several times. Having searched this forum the only > mention of a similar problem is quoted below. I am new to linux and wine > but fairly knowlegable on PCs. Any ideas?Sounds more indicative of a video problem from my experience. Are you sure your graphics drivers and GL library are properly installed? -- Paul Johnson baloo at ursine.ca -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. Url : http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-users/attachments/20080311/ceba92e1/attachment.pgp
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 7:54 AM, les wilde <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:> When I run the winecfg command, ... after a few seconds the > whole PC freezes and has to be rebooted to continue. > I am running the latest Ububntu version with a reasonable spec PC. > I have fully renistalled Ubuntu and also removed and reinstalled wine several times.Does the command 'glxgears' also lock up the system? What graphics card do you have? What drivers? You probably are using an Nvidia graphics card, and have a mismatch between your Nvidia graphics drivers and the kernel. Try reinstalling the Nvidia drivers. Let us know what happens. - Dan
I had this exact same problem. Believe it or not, it actually turned out to be my sound card. I was using a Dynex 5.1 PCI sound card. I cannot remember off hand what driver that uses in Ubuntu. Taking out the sound card caused winecfg to complete normally and then I could put the sound card back in and use wine (as long as I didn't go to the sound settings in winecfg, as that would lock up the whole system again). I ended up just buying a different sound card.
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 7:54 AM, les wilde <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:> When I run the winecfg command, (after installing wine) either from the menu or by a command in Terminal after a few seconds the whole PC freezes and has to be rebooted to continue. > I am running the latest Ububntu version with a reasonable spec PC. I have fully renistalled Ubuntu and also removed and reinstalled wine several times. Having searched this forum the only mention of a similar problem is quoted below. I am new to linux and wine but fairly knowlegable on PCs. > Any ideas? > > Quote > 'Running winecfg seems to hang or complain about files when I click the audio tab > The hang is caused by the "NAS" sound driver. This causes it to pause for a while but it should respond eventually. The only way to get around this is to remove NAS from your system and/or build Wine without NAS support in the first place. If you see messages about JACK in the terminal they can be ignored unless you intend to use the JACK driver. If you wish to use the JACK driver then you need to install JACK's libraries onto your machine before JACK will work.' > >Have you done what the message above called for? 1) completely removed NAS from your system. 2) Built wine from WineHQ.org source tarball with NAS disabled. In my experience the Jack sound stuff is a non-issue if you're not running the Jack server. Hope this helps, Mark
Mark Thanks for the reply AS mentioned in my original post I am a Linux novice. Hence removing NAS would be something i would need help and instruction to do. PLease feel free to reply with instructions or give me a link to where I may find them. Other than that I will be changing the hard drive set up over the next few days to see if that makes a difference
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Thanks for all who replied
It seemed like it was going to be a hardware fault, and it was!!
I tried the same hard drive in another machine and after reinstalling Ubuntu and
the installing wine the config command worked as it should with no lockups.
I will try the original machine again when I gat the time changing video and
sound cards to see where exactly the fault was.
At least I have an answer
Thanks again