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Newnux

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Registered: 2007-06-13

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[Solved] Wine takes ~10+ minutes to load

As the subject says.

I haven't used wine much recently, so I can't really pinpoint when this started happening.  When I type winecfg or try to run the majority of (maybe all) Windows applications through wine, I'm met with a 10 minute wait period or worse.  After watching the "~/.wine" directories when winecfg is run, it seems that they all reach their maximum size within a few seconds, and nothing is done for the remaining minutes. I've tried compiling wine and cvswine, with the same problem occurring, although I couldn't get regular wine to install after compile.

I tried searching and came up with someone having a similar problem here, but it seems something to do with a wlan card and DHCP; I don't run wireless and my IP is set statically. As I don't know how to troubleshoot wine itself, I'm hoping someone could give me a pointer to log files or something along those lines.

Thank you.

Last edited by Newnux (2007-07-31 12:37:10)

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Re: [Solved] Wine takes ~10+ minutes to load

hmm. might be something to do with getaddrinfo calls..

What does

ping `hostname`

command return to you as the ip address?

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Newnux

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Re: [Solved] Wine takes ~10+ minutes to load

192.168.1.64 -- my correct local address.

Might be worth mentioning that I'm able to access the internet through wine once it's running, not sure how relevant that is.

Last edited by Newnux (2007-07-31 10:42:38)

Gilneas

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Re: [Solved] Wine takes ~10+ minutes to load

When I do that, I get 127.0.0.1
I set up /etc/hosts as "127.0.0.1    my_host_name_in_rc.conf      localhost"
I've seen several variations on this though.

Newnux

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Re: [Solved] Wine takes ~10+ minutes to load

Christ, I never would have thought it something so simple.

This was my /etc/hosts:

#<ip-address>    <hostname.domain.org>    <hostname>
192.168.1.64     <myhostname>             #Diablo II required this entry for online play
127.0.0.1        <myhostname>             <myhostname>

The problem was the <hostname> entry for IP 127.0.0.1, changing it to localhost fixed wine!  Unbelievable!  Thanks, I feel a fool now!

Last edited by Newnux (2007-07-31 12:36:52)

Gilneas

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Re: [Solved] Wine takes ~10+ minutes to load

So let's say your hostname in rc.conf is foobar,
you changed it from "127.0.0.1    foobar    foobar"
to "127.0.0.1    foobar    localhost"?

Because I don't really understand the file.
"man hosts" gives an example of just "127.0.0.1   localhost", but ping `hostname` doesn't work then.

Newnux

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Re: [Solved] Wine takes ~10+ minutes to load

Exactly that.  Pinging my hostname still results in 192.168.1.64, but I guess that's what I require.

Misfit138

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Re: [Solved] Wine takes ~10+ minutes to load

You may also want to check the wiki for /etc/hosts format, it's under "Configure System" : http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beg … ure_System
Having 'localhost' in addition to your actual host name, all on one line is the recommended method for program compatibility. Also, if you have static ip, a second line with your actual ip is required.

Last edited by Misfit138 (2007-07-31 15:06:30)

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Newnux

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Re: [Solved] Wine takes ~10+ minutes to load

Thanks for that, I'll give it a go .

Edit: Hmm, I'm not sure I can work out what to put in place of yourhostname.domain.org and localhost.localdomain.  I wouldn't think they're necessary in my case.

Last edited by Newnux (2007-07-31 15:22:58)

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Re: [Solved] Wine takes ~10+ minutes to load

i'm wondering about the same thing. i don't have.. like a domain..

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Gilneas

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Re: [Solved] Wine takes ~10+ minutes to load

I don't really know either, but I think it's if you run a website or something. You can basically put as many items after the IP address as you want.
You can also put any IP address you want in it.

E.g. put www.foobar.com next to 127.0.0.1, and ping www.foobar.com will ping you.

put "66.211.213.17 archyparchy.org" and you can set your homepage to archyparchy.org instead of archlinux.org.

I guess it's like your own DNS-server-something.