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Wine crashes Ubuntu 7.10 instantly

Bug #196574 reported by Rob
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wine (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Undecided
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xserver-xorg-video-openchrome (Ubuntu)
Incomplete
Undecided
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: wine

Hi,

when trying to run or install any application with wine the system instantly freezes, only a reset helps. Winecfg also crashes the system. When starting wine in a terminal all he shows is the creation of the .wine directory before crashing.

My system:

- Notebook with AMD XP-M 2200+, Via chipset KM400/A, S3 Unichrome with via-agp driver (3D works with glxgears, DRI is enabled)
- Ubuntu 7.10 with generic kernel 2.6.22-14 and self-build 2.6.24.3, both with boot params pci=nomsi and pci=noacpi (without that my WLAN doesn't work)
- enabled update sources are gutsy-security, gutsy-updates, gutsy-proposed; no gutsy-backports
- wine 0.9.55 from the winehq repo, also tried wine 0.9.46 that came with Ubuntu

I tried both versions of wine with both kernel versions, no combination worked. After starting wine it takes about 2 seconds until the system halts.

Wine does work with other distros (e.g. Mandriva 2008 and even Debian Etch) on the same machine.

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Scott Ritchie (scottritchie) wrote :

Wine runs as a user-level app, and shouldn't be able to crash the whole system. Instead it's exposing a deeper problem, likely with your video drivers.

Changed in wine:
status: New → Invalid
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Michael Satke (n9447354) wrote :

Whenever starting any component of wine, e. g. 'wine settings' or 'browse virtual c drive' and also launching an application via wine freezes Ubuntu 7.10 at once. The System is absolutely frozen, you cannot move the mouse, neither switch to a terminal, and there is no rescue key combination working any more.

I have Ubuntu 7.10 installed (standard installation, with kernel 2.6.22-14-generic and GNOME 2.20.1). Whenever I run restricted-manager, it keeps saying me that my hardware does not need any restricted drivers.

My machine: Desktop PC
Intel Celeron @ 2.4 GHz
RAM 440 MB
HDD 80 GB

This is very critical and has to be fixed, for this can damage Wine's reputation badly.

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Scott Ritchie (scottritchie) wrote :

Again, this is not something Wine is doing. No single user process should lock the system like that; the bug is within the kernel, your video drivers, or possibly x.org

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Michael Satke (n9447354) wrote :

I hope so, Scott, but please allow me to say that I can not understand why the standard installation should provide me an Ubuntu that is bound to crash when using wine? Wkr, Michael

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Michael Satke (n9447354) wrote :

I am sort of newbie here, could you please communicate this bug to the appropriate persons? I do not know where to address myself to.

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Scott Ritchie (scottritchie) wrote :

I already have - notice how the bug is also against xserver-xorg-driver-via at the top.

Also, there's a substantial chance your bug has already been fixed in Hardy.

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Rob (raginrob) wrote :

Thanks for your comments, they made me fix it. Looks like it really had to do with the video drivers. After changing to VESA wine works perfectly well. I'm really looking forward to Hardy!

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Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) wrote :

Hardy uses openchrome by default for VIA chips, so check out if the problem is gone with it.

Changed in xserver-xorg-video-openchrome:
status: New → Incomplete
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kaputtnik (kaputtnik-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Hi!

This Problem depends on the glx-Drivers... Solution: See https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/137735

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