The screen was corrupted - the install was a small window in the corner
(ie, it took over the shell window), but when it tried to create a
desktop icon (I think) the whole screen became a patchwork of colours.
Andrew
You can be the captain
I will draw the chart
Sailing into destiny
Closer to the heart
Closer to the Heart by Rush (A Farewell to Kings, 1977)
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I had a similar situation installing Dragon Nat. Speaking with
installshield. I thought the thing was hanging and infact it was
popping up a modal dlg with a yes/no or whatever and wine was failing
to bring it to the front.
If the BC installer is hogging the whole screen and you are getting a
similar disfunction in wine you may think it is hung when it is not.
There is a line in .wine/config that allows you to catch badly behaved
installers in 600x800 window so that you can still access the rest of
the system.
It's fairly unlikely that an installer will really cripple your kernel
to the point where you have to power-off.
HTH
On Tue, 31 May 2005 21:53:19 +0200, Kuba Ober <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tuesday 31 May 2005 11:29, Andrew Neil Ramage wrote:
This was a BC++ 4.5 CD I bought years ago. The system I use is SusE 9.2
Desktop (hoping to upgrade to Pro soon) and the latest wine cvs. There
was no debugging information available as the system hung, so I could
not access the shell window I started the install from.
Did you try ssh'ing into the system and executing 'killall X' as
root? The
mere fact that X doesn't react to keystrokes doesn't necessarily mean
that
the system is hanging.
Cheers, Kuba
