Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 18:22:45 +0200 From: AB <aernoudt@wanadoo.nl> To: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at> Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: WINE problem Message-ID: <393147D5.FCBFC6AD@wanadoo.nl> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005281542520.80092-100000@deneb.dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
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Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > > On Sun, 28 May 2000, AB wrote: > > Running FreeBSD 4.0 stable (27 may last build (eg today), on SMP box. > > When trying to use WINE (for example installing encarta) I get this > > error message: > > I'm sorry that I can provide a more detailed reply, but you did not > specify which version of Wine you are using, nor how you built/installed > it (ports, Wine snapshot, package). Wine release 991114, installed from the ports collection on the 27th of may. > For example, Wine does not build on -STABLE since earlier last week due > to a problematic change to the ncurses library back then. I do use a -STABLE build... (kernel build yesterday, the system about 1 week ago) Could a new builworld solve the problem ? > > > "unable to start DDE communication with Program Manager" > > Can you test the same with a UP kernel or a Linux box? First of all we Not at the moment (I don't have a Linux machine at the moment, ususally I have some machine running Linux for reference or just to play around) > should try to find whether this is > 1. a Wine specific problem; > 2. a FreeBSD specific problem; or > 3. a FreeBSD SMP specific problem > > Currently the Wine port is undergoing major updates (It hadn't been > updated for about half a year) and there are some problems, but I hope > to have everything in a stable state by the end of the week, or so. > > My feeling, however, indicates that the problem you are experiencing > might fall in category 1 above, in which case I suggest you contact > the Wine authors directly (http://www.winehq.com/). I thi8nk this site is dead, can not connect to it for days in a row... Network time out reported as error message. Aernoudt Aernoudt Bottemanne * Powered by FreeBSD * http://www.freebsd.org http://www.openbsd.org http://www.nlfug.nl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message
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