running Fedora Core6 on a modern PC.
Any time I invoke wine, either running a windows program or winecfg, (which run fine), when I go to "System" "Shutdown" the panels and icons dissapear, the keyboard becomes inactive but I'm left with the desktop wallpaper and an active mouse cursor, then I have to turn the power off.
However if I do "poweroff" at a terminal, initially I get the same wallpaper and mouse, but after several seconds the mouse becomes inactive then the computer shutsdown.

This happens in gnome and kde, but in kde I don't get wallpaper just a dark screen with the mouse pointer.

I've checked in system monitor that no wine programs are still running after I terminate the windows app

Also running core4 on this PC, that doesn't have this problem, but it's the 0.9.27 version of wine.

My assumption, that could well be wrong, is some interation between wine and the X server, that's causing the X server to hang.

I sent a bug report to wine, they say it's a FC6 problem so I've sent one there as well.

Any ideas?????

decrepit

Chances are you will not like my suggestion, but here it is.

Either go hard Linux, or go hard Windows. As far as I'm concerned, don't mix the two.

Ps: Probably not what you want to hear, so be it. I suggest.....
GO HARD LINUX.

G'Day Junior,
So you don't like wine???

I'm dual booting with XP so I don't really need it, but just thought it puts me more on the path of ditching windows all together.

And would be another rung on the learning curve to fix the problem.

I don't mean to ruffle your feathers, but, you caught my drift.

I see......
Partition Magic, just an example, which was bought out by Norton, now, there is a Linux equivalent called Partimagic.............

Hmmmmmm..........

Do you know, the leaders in innovative software technology are third party software developers. Which is what Partition Magic once was. Sure....Partition Magic had their reasons for selling out and giving up their revolutionary technology, I will not contest their discission. Because the all mighty dollar speaks volumes.
What really bothers me is how the "Giants" have the power to choke the little guy who was/is the backbone of technological advancements out of the picture. The true innovators do not profit from there massive efforts which eventually gives the average home computer user powerful software that eventually gets ported to all platforms.
Wine.............
I feel, is .......................
Is a ............
A tool that will eventually ............
Blend all technology.
Eliminating competition.

Which.........from an executive's prospective...........
is a tool that will enable global domination.

But?

Who? will capitalize on this global software domination?

Yes, it may appear that the Linux world is the world that will profit from such endeavors derived from Wine, viewed from the average mind, which is moulded and shaped by propaganda (TV).

You may argue till death on this topic, but I am different than the average human because I do not stare at the boob tube, I am not a puppet to the giant corporations that force subliminal messages every 6 minutes making me a drone. I have the ability to view world situations from an executive approach, I look at every possible angle before I arrive at a conclusion/discission. And I have what everybody wants because of that.

TOTAL FREEDOM

Not ruffling any feathers here junior, mostly I agree with you.
We have to give the open source movement all the support we can.
I'm just not convinced you're right about wine

Yeah

I kind of agree, now that I'm sober. (not quite every angle that time)

Whenever wine crashes or hangs try
killall -9 /usr/bin/wine-preloader

Thanks sandog but wine doesn't crash!!!! Everything works fine, system monitor shows no wine process left running when I terminate window apps. Everything seems normal until I shutdown, then I think it's the X server that fails to shutdown.

But saying that it won't hurt to try your command after I've run wine and see what happens, I'll report back.

Is it possible that your wine configuration is establishing a cifs share to a Windows box?

I had a "shutdown" problem, with symptoms similar to yours, when the network was disabled before the cifs shares were unmounted. Here's my solution.

Also of note, but not, I think, your problem is that shutdown no longer (i.e., after the most recent update of kdm) works if you're using kdm instead of gdm as your display manager.

Only if it's doing it off it's own bat, I certainly haven't set up anything that would do that.
Thanks for the suggestion thou.

Yes I saw that thread, and you're right, that's not my problem.

Just uninstalling the FC6 version of wine, (with rpm -e) caused the problem! So wine doesn't actually have to run, this is very weird!