8.10 freezing a lot more recently.

[Brian McKee]

On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 3:09 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On 04/15/2009 08:18 AM, Matt Harrison wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Dirk Freitag <unreal.linux at gmail.com>wrote:
>>> This is true.  I am really hoping that I am not having hardware issues
>>> already with this machine.  Maybe I should have noted, that it only
>>> freezes and has problems when my girlfriend is using it for school
>>> trying to take online tests and classes through IEs4linux.  She has to
>>> use IEs4linux because the site that she has to use to take her online
>>> courses do not like Firefox in Linux.  She uses Firefox on her windows
>>> laptop at her house for these sites without any problems.  But if you
>>> try to access the sites through Firefox in Linux, you get an error
>>> saying that the site only works under IE or Netscape.
>>>
>>> So I installed IEs4Linux to see if that would work, and it did, except
>>> when she went to take a test, the computer froze.  And it keeps freezing
>>> (at different points I might add) when she tries to take a test on the
>>> site.  I apologize that I was not more specific with my first email, but
>>> maybe this is the issue?
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Dirk Freitag
>>> Linux Registered User Number 487244          [http://counter.li.org/]
>>>
>>>
>> I think you may be on the right track.  I have used IE installed from
>> Crossover Office and certain sites just lock the system up.  Never really
>> took the time to investigate it because I just wrote it off as being a
>> problem with running a Windows application on Linux.  I'm sure everyone else
>> can give you more technical information than I can, but it's probably some
>> Active X related problem or some proprietary MS protocal that doesn't work
>> when emulating the Windows enviornment in Linux.
>>
>> -Matt
>>
>>
>
> This is an interesting read:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wine/+bug/205895
> [[Hardy] Wine 100% cpu usage]
>
> BTW: I've found that using wine from these repos rather than the
> medibuntu repos works better on my hardy & intrepid systems:
>
> http://www.winehq.org/download/deb
>
> ~$ apt-cache policy wine
> wine:
>  Installed: 1.1.19~winehq0~ubuntu~8.04-0ubuntu1
>  Candidate: 1.1.19~winehq0~ubuntu~8.04-0ubuntu1
>  Version table:
>  *** 1.1.19~winehq0~ubuntu~8.04-0ubuntu1 0
>        500 http://wine.budgetdedicated.com hardy/main Packages
>        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>     1.0.0-1ubuntu4~hardy1 0
>        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/universe Packages
>        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-backports/universe Packages
>     0.9.59-0ubuntu4 0
>        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe Packages
>

I'm using Version: 1.0.0~winehq0~ubuntu~8.04-1 with ie6 on quite a few
machines here at work and it's working well.  Occasionally bombs when
doing fancy ActiveX stuff, but it only takes down IE, not the rest of
the computer.
Whenever I find a version of wine that seems to work I stick with it
for a long time, because I've been bitten by regressions on that
package more than any other.
Brian