[Wine] Re: Wine crash
James K.
james at bst.cx
Mon Mar 19 00:46:03 CDT 2007
On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 07:35:03 -0400, Timm <timmr at atlanticbb.net> wrote:
>James K. <james at bst.cx> writes:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I can't use Wine from version >=0.9.18 anymore.
>> It compiles ok and then it crashes somewhere in the middle of
>> installation,
>> I think when Wine tries to execute something.
>> Even when I try to run winecfg it crashes.
>> It worked with Wine version 0.9.17 and lower.
>> Anyone have any idea what's wrong ?
>> I'm running Slackware 10.0.
>
>I had the same problem, but thanks to folks at WINE bugzilla I was set
>straight. Basically you need to move to kernel 2.6. Slack default
>kernel 2.4 does not do NPTL. Make the move, it's worth the effort.
>And really the effort involved is minimal.
>
>I looked for patches for NPTL for kernel 2.4 series and couldn't find
>any. I'm glad I couldn't , because the 2.6 kernel has much better performance.
>
>You might consider upgrading from 10.0 also. 11.0 is on the near
>horizon. 'upgradepkg --installnew *' and a new slack distro is what
>you need, especially if you are trying to keep up with wine. The newer
>distros come with a 2.6 kernel in /testing dir.
I have 2.6 kernel. Do I have to install some NPTL libraries or
something ?
James
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