[cw-discuss] Miserable 6.0 experience...

[Sid Boyce]

Jeremy White wrote:
> Actually, I've been educated on this; there appears to be a known
> issue and fix that seems to work for SuSE 10.2.
> 
> So, definitely get a ticket in, and 6.1 will definitely fix this issue.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Jeremy
> 
I only have Office 97 and it's OK with 10.2 and 10.3Alpha1, so I don't 
know if it's an issue with Office 2003.
Regards
Sid.

> Jeremy White wrote:
>> Hi Derek,
>>
>> 10.2 came out after we'd frozen our test platforms, so we didn't
>> test against it at all.
>>
>> And you're not the first person to report odd troubles like this.
>>
>> I'm not sure if we've solved this yet, or not; either way, it owuld
>> really help if you could submit a ticket on it.
>>
>> (Standard suggestions are to investigate your ulimits and to
>> make sure that AppArmor is configured to allow wine to run).
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Jeremy
>>
>> Derek Fountain wrote:
>>
>>> I bought Crossover 6.0 a week or so back after a good experience with
>>> 3.0 Pro a long time back. Not going well...
>>>
>>> Installation was OK on my SUSE-10.2 single CPU machine. I only need Word
>>> and Excel from Office 2003, so I stuck that disk in and ran a customised
>>> install. The installation hung up three quarters of the way in. Some
>>> Wine process was using 100% of the CPU. I left it for 30 mins, but it
>>> clearly wasn't going to come back. I spent the next few minutes killing
>>> wine processes, and eventually rebooted to get rid of the zombies.
>>>
>>> I only need Office 2000 really, so I dug out that CD and started again,
>>> and this time it succeeded. But now Excel is proving unreliable. It's
>>> hung up in the same way twice this afternoon - some wine process taking
>>> 100% of the CPU and nothing happening in the application.
>>>
>>> I wiped everything in sight and went back to Crossover 3.0 Pro. It's
>>> only been an hour but that's been OK so far.
>>>
>>> Is this a known problem, or is anyone else seeing it? I've not been able
>>> to reproduce it reliably (and I need the machine for work, rather than
>>> as a test box, so I'm not keen to reproduce it either!)
>>>
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