Yeah, fortunately I was able to break out of both lock ups with a CTRL+ALT F1, login as root, and kill all wine processes... You mentioned that Battle net has been a problem for a while, and I also recall talk about Broodwars being a pain. Well, I was doing both, so I guess this behavior was expected. Maybe I"ll try looking up the comments like you said... But as I under stood it, Starcraft + latest WineX was basically brainless: Install RPM (assuming you have subscribed), and run Starcraft.... Guess I've been misinformed?
-----Original Message----- From: Praedor Atrebates [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 10:16 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Wanted to try wine -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 13 June 2003 06:50 am, Tango Echo wrote: > I just tried installine WineX on my 9.1 box last night > for the 3rd time. Was following the instructions on > > http://www.geocities.com/desktopmandrake/wine.htm > > Unfotunately I kept getting the "no socket file" error > every time I tried to start it. A quick google search > showed that typing "wineserver" before launching wine > might help. Sure enough it did. However it wasn't > with problems... Starcraft locked up in Battle net > after I joined a game and started to download a map. Counter-Strike > (Retail) locked up after the main screen came up. A couple questions > for ya all: > > Have any of you had lockups with WineX like I did? If > so, how did u resolve them? [...] I haven't tried battlenet so I cannot comment on it specifically, nor have I tried Counter-Strike. Starcraft itself has never locked on me at all. I HAVE had wine-based lockups and there isn't much to do about them, often, except to...gulp...hard reboot just like you are using windoze. If you have a second computer/laptop that can access the locked up system via wireless or local lan, then you can ssh in and kill wine and fix things that way. I have only dialup access at home but also have an ethernet card in my system and a crossover cable. With this, I can directly connect my laptop to my desktop if wine hard locks on me and kill wine. You may still be able to fix things without anything drastic by trying Ctrl-F2 (or F3, F4, etc) to get a login prompt for another session. Login and do a "killall wine" or run top and see if you can see the wine PIDs to kill them specifically. This is how I usually do it - the hard lockups that don't allow any keyboard use are, thankfully, rather rare but they do occur. So...wine not only gives you the ability to run many windoze apps, it can also give you the full windoze experience by locking up your system too. An unfortunate side-effect, me thinks, of such things as DRI/direct access to graphics, etc. praedor - -- Patriotism as practiced in the USA is blindly accepting, noncritical, and silently following along. It is very fascist in form, not democratic at all. - --Ani DeFranco -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+6dyhaKr9sJYeTxgRAjWSAKCRX0urTkcGow42joNOnDHoCSXOKwCgiB3I nH7DWVNsL2OI/YL4aouHdWE= =59P3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- 7DWVNsL2OI/YL4aouHdWE= =59P3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com
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