ive been with mandrake 10 now since friday (3 days) and already, its the most unstable distro ive ever tried. it freezed at shutdown/reboot, programs fail to open or crash for no reason, program splash screens never go away and make the program unusable and require killing.

WINE does not work at all. crossover office doesnt finish installing because it hangs, winex3 doesnt work, wine from RPM or compiled from source wont even work (i type in wine programname.exe, and it just stops there, no error message, just a blank line on the konsole). every version of wine i try, wether its from RPM or compiled from source, i get the same result. wine programname.exe = blank line in CLI


oh, and did i mention im using the 2.4 kernel, in which ive already customized and rebuilt. my Xig X server doesnt support the 2.6 kernels...yet.

my question is:
why doesnt wine work?

after i get this answer, ill have another one.

it worked for me... at least while Mdk 10 was still running.

Hi DAChristen29,

Wow, that sounds really rough. Are you using the more recent Mandrake 10.0 "Official" release? It should be a lot more stable than the Community Edition.

I'm using Mandrake 10.0 Community Edition, and though I have noticed some instability, for the most part my experience has been pretty smooth. I have winex3 running without issues, however I have come across the problem you're experience, where winex3 does and says nothing when I try to run a Win32 binary. Usually a reboot solved the problem for me.

I did a couple fresh installs of Mandrake 10.0 (nuked / and started again) and found each install behaved a little differently. I can't explain why, but possibly the installer is a bit patchy and drops packages here and there. Might be worth a reinstall and see if a fresh system works any better.

Sorry I can't help more. Feel free to shoot any other questions you have though.

Cheers,
Tim

I use Wine on MDK 10.0 Official, and it works fine. I'd suspect the 2.4 kernel.

One thing that's worth noting, though. Mandrake Wine has a startup script that's intended to make things easier for beginners. For example, it changes the current directory to that of the executable because some Windows executables have been known to fail if they're run from another directory. However, the startup script itself has been known to cause problems in the past, and require fixes. You can try bypassing the startup script by using wine.bin.

To illustrate a current problem (with wine-20040213-3mdk and wine-utils-20040213-3mdk), if you want to use wcmd, the wine command shell, to execute a dos command or a batch file, then it doesn't work and pauses in the command shell.

This works:
# wine.bin -- wcmd /c echo hello

This doesn't, and you need to issue the exit command manually:
# wine -- wcmd /c echo hello

ok, i got it finally. here's what started it all.

i got mdk 10 official in the mail, installed it. then, i realized XIG doesnt support the 2.6 kernels. but i played around with it anyways to see how cool it was. i tried running wine, a few other programs, and it was just as i described above, it always crashes.

the i reinstalled with a 2.4 kernel and got XIG to work. but i get the same crap as with the 2.6 kernel. then i discovered (by emailing support) that XIG just releases a patch to support the 2.6 kernels, so i reinstalled AGAIN. after that third install, everything's working now except reboot. im going to rebuild a kernel tonight.

im having some heat issues with the laptop, it's overheating, and what that happens, the computer wont let you startup/reboot if the CPU is too hot. its strange because the fans going and everything. maybe its because i dont have ACPI on.

NEW QUESTION: how do i save the list of RPMs/packages i have installed so if i have to do another install, i can just refer back to the file, and have it automatically install those packages? i remember while installing, there's a floppy disk settings save thing, but i have no floppy drive (who uses them anyways?)

my RPm questions would be really helpful, because some reason, my kernel wont compile, so ive been re-installing a lot. how would i do this?