WINE now gives error message on App

[HWDude]

I just upgraded my system and now an application I've had running [since I installed PCLOS on this machine - called CARDSCAN] under WINE no longer works.

I get a little pop-up window that says: Could not start CARDSCAN because an internal Error, 1159, has been detected; file:umisc.c, line:327

I am running PCLOS Version 2.6.33.7-pclos6.bfs fully upgraded to the repo's as of 12-6-2010.

WINE version is listed in Synaptic as version 1.2.2-1pclos2010

I am running a 3 GHz P4 w/ 2 GB memory (Gateway E-6100),  NVIDIA GeForce 6200 AGP video card.         yeah... its old!

HWDude

[rubentje1991]

Try to make a new user account, and install the application there in wine... if it works there, it's a problem in your current user configurations of wine...

The most simple thing to do then, is removing the '.wine' folder in the home directory of your user, and a reinstall of wine via Synaptic.... Then install the application again...
(the .wine folder has to be removed, because wine also has a register - like Windows  - it's not possible else to run as much applications as they do now  )

[shrinivas]

No go !
I am unable to run uTorrent after this upgrade.
I tried removing .wine and installing wine but it doesn't seem to work.

This seems to be a KDE bug. I have another installation of E-17/XFCE, there uTorrent works.

[Xero]

May I ask, why are you using wine to run uTorrent, when there are plenty of good torrent apps (Ktorrent is excellent for one)?

[smurfslover]

Another good opensource app for torrent downloads is transmission, comes with a qt or gtk ui, it's light on your system but provides good functionality.

[rubentje1991]

If you do not want to use native Linux apps, we'll have to solve your µTorrent issue; but I don't know enough about torrents themselves (never used them)
=> did you test to make a new user account (then we know for sure it's nothing in your home-dir)

[shrinivas]

If you do not want to use native Linux apps, we'll have to solve your µTorrent issue; but I don't know enough about torrents themselves (never used them)
=> did you test to make a new user account (then we know for sure it's nothing in your home-dir)

I did create another user and the result is the same.
I have been using qbittorrent without any problem. I use uTorrent because of the ease and the scheduler that allows me to stop downloading after 8:00 AM, (till which time internet is free here )
Somehow, I was not comfortable with ktorrent, Transmission, I was unable to properly configure it, the downloading would stall sometimes because the internet gets cut-off sometimes, it would not resume etc., I did not have any problem with uTorrent.

Anyway it is not much of a problem, I can log into another E-17 installation and use uTorrent.

I am too much of a noob to explain what happens, I can only tell that it doesn't work.
I could request for a Linux version of uTorrent, but everyone would start telling me to use native application and they are right !
So there.
For all this sometime later, another update might correct this problem.

Regards and Thanks all.

[HWDude]

Try to make a new user account, and install the application there in wine... if it works there, it's a problem in your current user configurations of wine...

The most simple thing to do then, is removing the '.wine' folder in the home directory of your user, and a reinstall of wine via Synaptic.... Then install the application again...
(the .wine folder has to be removed, because wine also has a register - like Windows  - it's not possible else to run as much applications as they do now  )

I did a COMPLETE removal of wine in synaptic, deleted the .wine directory structure under my home directory, rebooted, installed wine again and tried the app.   I got a GECKO window to pop up saying it needed to install some other apps which it did successfully.  Everything completed successfully.

I ran the CARDSCAN app again and got the same pop-up window with the exact same error message:

Could not start CARDSCAN because an internal Error, 1159, has been detected; file:umisc.c, line:327   

So this appears to be a new issue with the latest release of wine and its dependencies.

HWdude

[shrinivas]

I am sorry, amidst all this, I forgot to give the error message I get :

" It seems like uTorrent is already running, but not responding. Please close all uTorrent processes and try again."

And when I press ctrl+esc, sure it is running ! I can end the process, but launching again it doesn't start.

Regards all

[Xero]

I could request for a Linux version of uTorrent, but everyone would start telling me to use native application and they are right !
So there.

Regards and Thanks all.

If utorrent made a linux version, then it WOULD be a native app. But they don't. And no one can just make one. Most torrent apps have scheduling built-in, among other features. You really should try out some of the alternatives, it would save you panicing every time you have a wine issue.

[menotu]

If memory serves there was an Linux uTorrent in development.

Yup, here it is - http://www.utorrent.com/downloads/linux - BUT it's in Alpha so how usable it is is anyones guess.

[Xero]

With all the good clients already around, I don't see the point, and that was the reason they originally gave for not making one.

[menotu]

With all the good clients already around, I don't see the point

Yup I agree we already have some very good ones in the repos, but there are a lot of people who like utorrent (I used it on Windows) and if they could develop one as good as the Windows version I think a lot of people would use it - 'specially newcomers to Linux.

[shrinivas]

I had an older version of uTorrent in the E-17 installation, I copied it to the KDE installation.
Now it is working !
Probably it is the latest version of uTorrent that is incompatible with the latest Wine app.
Thanks all for reading my post and responding.

P.S. I can't mark the thread solved, actually it is someone else's thread that got hijacked !
I hope it gets solved.
Regards.