Marcus Meissner wrote:
On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 02:55:04PM +0100, Sid Boyce wrote:
Marcus Meissner wrote:
On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 12:26:00PM +0100, Sid Boyce wrote:
On a new box I'm preparing for someone, I did a fresh install of
10.3Alpha3 and applied factory updates just yesterday. The problem is to
do with 32-bit programs, like stuff under crossover office and
GooglePicasa, both of which are needed by the owner of the box.
These run fine on my x86_64 laptop also with 10.3Alpha3plus, so I'm
guessing there is a compat package(s) not installed. Thanks in advance
for any pointers/suggestions.
Do:
ulimit -v unlimited
Then try again.
I also tried Picasa and did not get it to work with 10.2 (likely the same
for 10.3).
wine itself works ;)
Ciao, Marcus
With ulimit set to unlimited I now get just a few memory allocation
failures in Picasa and lots with word97 under crossover office 5.0.1 on
the new box. On the x86_64 laptop (10.3Alphaplus upgraded from 10.2,
ulimit was already at unlimited) Picasa works fine. Under crossover
office 4.0 and word97 and friends are also fine. On the x86 box with
crossover office 6.0.1, no problems.
I shall update the new x86_64 box to CXO 6.0.1 to see if MS Office stuff
works there.
I'll fire questions on CXO to codeweavers list.
Ran "rpm -qa|grep compat" on the one that works and the one that
doesn't, but nothing stands out.
I do not think there are RPMs missing, its just that newer
Linux distributions tend to break Wine occasionaly. (Not so
much as in earlier times, but still sometimes.)
Ciao, Marcus
I agree. Assuming it's a x86_64 problem where 10.2 -> 10.3 Alpha3 ->
10.3 Alpha3plus laptop runs all (includes the same copy of the picasa
download that was used to install on the other x86_64 box) and the other
box 10.3 Alpha3 -> 10.3Alpha3plus has the problem, I can only think that
there must be something carried over from the 10.2 install that's still
there, making the laptop work. The x86 box is unaffected - 10.1 with
factory upgrades through to 10.3Alpha3plus.
I suppose that's software gremlins for you, like the simple typo in
exit.c across many 2.6 kernels that suddenly decided to bite at
2.6.20-git11 through 2.6.21-rc5-git on both x86 and x86_64 causing kwin,
kicker and klauncher to die silently after screen lock and unlock.
Amazingly, even Linus was amazed, I was the only person to have hit
that one, joined about 3 weeks later by only one other guy.
Regards
Sid.
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