[Wine] Fwd: System logout when installing software

Zhongli Xu zhongli.xu at gmail.com
Tue Jan 22 03:55:00 CST 2008


Hi

On Jan 22, 2008 5:42 PM, Pavel Troller <patrol at sinus.cz> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> > Hi James,
> >
> > Thanks for the info.
> >
> > On my ubuntu, I run wine as an account (not root) of administer. The
> setup
> > is OK.
> > But as an ordinary user, the system logout during the installation
> before I
> > can react. The windows software will install some drivers, which
> requires
> > reboot.
> Maybe there is a misunderstanding. You are saying that installing a
> software
> in wine causes your Linux session to be logged out automatically ? If it
> is
> the case, it's not a logout, it's a crash, maybe of an X server.


    Yes, it is. Does that mean it is a bug of WINE?

>
> >
> > Does WINE has any method to prevent this automatic logout behavior?
> Normal behaviour is, that when and application requests windows to reboot,
> wine executes a special program called wineboot, which performs the
> simulation
> of the windows reboot. When the program doesn't reboot windows
> automatically
> but request it on you, you have to run wineboot manually from the shell.
> wine
> then finishes the installation.
> There is no such thing as automatic logout of a Linux session.
>  With regards, Pavel Troller
> >
> >
>
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