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

Scott5114 wineforum-user at winehq.org
Sat May 14 19:19:50 CDT 2011


jjmckenzie wrote:
> 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


Nope! If I need to nuke it and start fresh I can do that.







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