[gutsy] Running a Wine application freezes up the whole system

I'm having the same problem. I've purged wine, renamed .wine, and reinstalled several times, and still, anything I do related to Wine freezes my computer and I have to re-boot. I'm on an Acer 1522. My Gutsy upgrade went smoothly otherwise. Here's my lspci output, if that helps:

00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M800 Host Bridge
00:00.1 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M800 Host Bridge
00:00.2 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M800 Host Bridge
00:00.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M800 Host Bridge
00:00.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M800 Host Bridge
00:00.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M800 Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI bridge [K8T800/K8T890 South]
00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Linksys, A Division of Cisco Systems [AirConn] INPROCOMM IPN 2220 Wireless LAN Adapter (rev 01)
00:0b.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI7420 CardBus Controller
00:0b.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI7420 CardBus Controller
00:0b.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments PCI7x20 1394a-2000 OHCI Two-Port PHY/Link-Layer Controller
00:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80)
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80)
00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80)
00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 82)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ISA Bridge
00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
00:11.6 Communication controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 80)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. S3 Unichrome Pro VGA Adapter (rev 01)

I'd be happy to post any other info, or try suggestions. I'll have to go back to Feisty soon if I don't get this solved.

An update: I switched back to the more basic Vesa driver, and now I have Wine working in Gutsy. (This would be a problem if the newer driver solved any of my other video problems like my lack of dual monitors. Since it doesn't I'll go with the Vesa driver for now.)

Maybe this would help the original poster.

Thank you Julia. I have a VIA S3 UniChrome, so I have to use the via or openchrome driver (latter one does not work at all).This vesa driver seems to be more basic, so I don't want to use that. I will set this bug as confirmed, because it should not happen with the via driver.

The system also freezes when I go to the webcam properties of Kopete. This is properly related to each other, because I had similar bugs that freezes the system:

Bug #132000
Bug #147269

So it is properly not Wine related, so I assign to another package.

I installed xserver-xorg-video-openchrome, libviaxvmc1 and libviaxvmcpro1 (and therefore uninstalled xserver-xorg-video-via).

Although this driver works it also has the same problem I reported earlier. So it's not a solution.

I can image people think this is a hardware failure, but than it must be high coincidence, because the problems started on the same moment I switched from Feisty to Gutsy.

Why reporting bugs if no developer takes a look and tries at least to fix it?! Very frustrating, from a user point of view.

From https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wine/+bug/137735

adding the following lines to /etc/X11/xorg.conf solves the issue:

Section "Module"
        Disable "dri"
        Disable "glx"
EndSection

That doesn't *solve* the issue, that works around it.

Coincidentally, this "solution" also makes sure that I can't run the
application I want to, because that's a game and it needs graphics.

Anyway, I guess the problem is not so much in wine but in the faulty VIA
graphics/opengl drivers.

Shame on VIA....

alejandro gonzález wrote:
> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 137735 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/137735
>
>>From https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wine/+bug/137735
>
> adding the following lines to /etc/X11/xorg.conf solves the issue:
>
> Section "Module"
> Disable "dri"
> Disable "glx"
> EndSection
>
>
> ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 137735
> [gutsy] wine causes hard lockup - every time
>

That indeed is a good workaround.

@Wateenallende: This bug is not a wine bug and is the only bug that is listed to xserver-xorg-driver-via. Unfortunaly someone marked it as a duplicate, but it should be the way around.