potential bug in winecfg

[Joseph Garvin]

For the audio freeze, try uninstalling arts if you have it. That's what 
seems to cause the freeze on my box. I also get output on the terminal 
saying "unable to create mcop directory."

Jesse Allen wrote:

>On 12/29/05, Jesse Allen <the3dfxdude at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>I have also seen a problem with winecfg freezing the whole box the
>>last two days, 20051226 snapshot.  Outsite ping won't even work.  My
>>distro is slackware-current here.  I think it may be related to audio
>>because I removed my user from the audio group and I have not since
>>been able to recreate the lockup.  The reason I guessed audio is
>>because 9 times out of 10 it locks up when clicking the audio tab.
>>But it also locks up in or clicking the graphics tab.
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>Ok, I have now had it freeze without audio group permissions.  I also
>know how to recreate the freeze.  Start winecfg, go to audio tab, make
>a change (I unselect OSS and reselect), hit apply, then OK, then
>immediately start winecfg again.  It then freezes.
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