[cw-discuss] office 2000 stops working

[Jeremy White]

Hey Alex,

That's a lot to digest.  It's hard to imagine a problem that
would require an OS reinstall to fix.  Is there any chance
that it worked, and then you installed a different video
driver, and then the crashes started happening?

Could you clarify what happened with the trial version - is
it that Office failed to install, or that it was crashing on
you all the time?

Also, what happens if you do a 'reset crossover'
(and manually confirm that there are no processes named
'wine' or 'wineloader' or WINWORD.EXE remaining) - does that
speed things back up?

Cheers,

Jeremy

Alex Zelter wrote:
> I'm running Ubuntu Feisty kernel  2.6.20-16-generic and crossover
> standard version 5.0.3. I have used crossover for years to run office
> 2000 under linux and have never had any problems. Since changing my OS
> to feisty fawn, however, I have had my office stop working three times.
> On a fresh feisty install, I install crossover and then office 2000. All
> works well for some time. Then word starts to take a long long time to
> open. Eventually word and powerpoint both stop working (they crash all
> the time and take ages to open). The first time this happened I tried
> uninstalling crossover and reinstalling it (including deleting
> ~/.cxoffice). This did not help. In fact, I could not reinstall office
> 2000. The installer just hung part way through. I also tried downloading
> the latest trial version of crossover, but it had the same problem. In
> the end I reinstalled the entire OS. This fixed the problem. However, I
> am now having the same problem again. Word is suddenly taking ages to
> open again. Obviously I can't keep reinstalling my OS to fix this issue
> so I must find out what the problem is. I have never delved deeply into
> the working/debugging of wine before, so I would greatly appreciate any
> advice about what I can do to try to determine what is going on. I no
> longer have support from codeweavers, as although I have bought
> crossover several times in the past my current version is old enough for
> my support to have run out.
> Thanks in advance,
> Alex
> 
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