RPM for Red Hat - Wine Startup problem for multiple users

[Vincent Béron]

Le sam 25/10/2003 à 06:08, SysAdmin a écrit :
> Hi good folks!
> 
> I'd like to offer to provide some testing and/or debug feedback on this
> one because it seems several users have experienced the same problem
> getting Wine to start, and it appears not to be application specific.
> 
> Previous use of Wine has been fine, and I just tried 20031016 using the
> RPMs for RH8, running i686. I get the same problem whether I upgraded,
> or cleared everything out first and installed from scratch.
> 
> Doesn't matter what application I try - even notepad, for example, all
> stop with the following error, seemingly before Wine has really got
> going...
> 
> 	wine: Unhandled exception (thread 0009), starting debugger...

Problem was installation of a RH7.3 package on RH8, without the proper
compat-glibc package.

I'm beginning to wonder if some type of pre-install check would be
welcome here, as well as for detecting absence of NPTL on RH9...

Vincent