[Wine] Wine taking unacceptably long to start up (Fedora 14 x86_64)

[James McKenzie]

On 5/14/11 4:54 PM, Scott5114 wrote:
> jjmckenzie wrote:
>> On 5/14/11 6:30 AM, Scott5114 wrote:
>>
>>> jjmckenzie wrote:
>>>
>>>> Can you open another terminal window and run:
>>>>
>>>> Code:
>>>>
>>>> ps -ef | grep wine
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> and advise what you get in return?
>>>>
>>>> James McKenzie
>>>>
>>> This is what I get (using `wine cmd`) as a test :
>>>
>>> Code:
>>>
>>> $ ps -ef | grep wine
>>> scott    16247     1  0 May13 ?        00:00:02 /usr/bin/wineserver
>>> scott    16283 16281  0 May13 ?        00:00:00 C:\windows\system32\winedevice.exe MountMgr
>>> scott    18853 18611  0 May13 pts/0    00:00:00 wineboot.exe --update
>>> scott    24852 20437  0 08:27 pts/4    00:00:00 grep --color=auto wine
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> What happens if try with a fresh Wineprefix?
>>
>> Does the wineboot --update command still hang?
>>
>> Also, can you issue the following command:
>>
>> echo $WINEPREFIX
>>
>> and provide the response.
>>
>> James McKenzie
>>
>>>
>>> vitamin wrote:
>>>> In most cases it's caused by a network printer that does not respond. If you have such a printer configured - try removing it. Or make sure it's available. Or you can try stopping cups.
>>> I don't have a network printer. Stopping cups seemed to have no effect.
>>>
>> This may not be the only reason your boot up is 'hanging'.
>>
>> James McKenzie
>
> Interesting. Echoing $WINEPREFIX doesn't return anything. Should I try setting it to ~/.wine (as that is where I have all my wine programs installed)?
>
That is what I expected.  Sometimes folks try to link Wine's 'fake 
Windows' directories to an actual Windows installation.  Great way to 
break both Wine and Windows.

Do you have ANYTHING that you cannot re-install into Wine?

James McKenzie