[Wine] For what reason the "official" Wine does not support USB ?

John Drescher drescherjm at gmail.com
Thu Jul 15 13:17:21 CDT 2010


> Thanks Gert for your thoughts! No, once the drive changed states to being
> read-only, after running my wine apps, the only recourse I have to getting
> it going again is to reboot. I cannot dismount the drive as Linux continues
> to believe some process is using it, even though I have killed all the
> PortableApps processes and stopped the wine server itself. It is interesting
> to note that whenever I get into trouble with using the Passport drive,
>  even the Linux system itself cannot dismount the drive during its shutdown
> process. Which is really surprising since dismounting all drives is one of
> the last things that happens, after all other system and user processes have
> been terminated!
>

Look at your dmesg output. To me this sounds like a HW failure or a kernel bug.\

John



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