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Statix

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From: Hangzhou, China

Registered: 2008-02-16

Posts: 240

[SOLVED] Wine takes forever to start applications

Ever since a few days ago wine is taking about... 3-5 minutes to start applications. This applies to all applications, on multiple wine prefixes (including newly created ones). Once the application is running it runs without problems, but the launch time is very annoying.

I don't remember changing anything except maybe doing a Syu or so, but I've tried downgrading my wine and that doesn't help either.

I just can't figure it out. Has anyone had similar problems before?

Update:

I reinstalled my system today (keeping my home directory, so some config stayed) and I still have the problem.

Last edited by Statix (2008-11-28 20:48:48)

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cheer

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From: Russia, St. Petersburg

Registered: 2006-08-02

Posts: 131

Re: [SOLVED] Wine takes forever to start applications

may be you have problems with the network (for example no localhost in /etc/hosts). Check if mc has this behaviour.

Statix

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From: Hangzhou, China

Registered: 2008-02-16

Posts: 240

Re: [SOLVED] Wine takes forever to start applications

I don't think that's the problem. My /etc/hosts is set up correctly and mc starts without delay.

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test1000

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Registered: 2005-04-03

Posts: 834

Re: [SOLVED] Wine takes forever to start applications

open a terminal and run wine programname through strace (like strace wine program or whateva..) and see what comes up.

Last edited by test1000 (2008-11-28 20:06:30)

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Statix

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From: Hangzhou, China

Registered: 2008-02-16

Posts: 240

Re: [SOLVED] Wine takes forever to start applications

Ooh, awesome, thanks. That was very helpful.

connect(11, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(631), sin_addr=inet_addr("208.67.217.132")}, 16

That is what was causing the stop.

Since it was something to do with my connection I tried disconnecting from the internet. Wine ran perfectly.

Turns out it was something to do with OpenDNS. I switched back to my ISP's DNS servers and it's great now.

Thanks!

Last edited by Statix (2008-11-28 20:49:03)

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