I recently upgraded my SuSE 9.0 system to SuSE 10. I have noticed several bug fixes in Wine but I have a new problem with Pegasus Mail, the only Windows program I am addicted to because it is so powerful. The Pegasus Mail window can't be closed normally. I can't solve the problem but maybe my own experiments can help isolate it. Pegasus Mail 4.21C has worked fine under SuSE 9.0 and Wine 20030813 for a long time. The window could freeze in the background but it happened very seldom. I updated SuSe 9.0 regularly so I probably used several Wine versions. So I want to thank you for Wine. Without it, I would still depend on MS Windows. Under SuSE 10, I have tried two versions of Wine: Wine 0.9.2 and the one from July (which comes with SuSE 10). The problem remains the same. Pegasus has three winsock alternatives in the Options menu: 1. Never load winsock.dll The program starts and finishes without problems, but Pegasus believes it has no internet connection and so disables sending and retrieving internet mail. 2. Load winsock.dll on demand only The program loads winsock.dll, sends or retrieves mail - and freezes the moment after. New mail can be read when the program is restarted. 3. Always load winsock.dll The program loads winsock.dll, sends or retrieves mail but does not freeze. However, I can't exit the program. I must kill the window with force. This is the alternative I use when writing this message. This is how many have started Pegasus in the past: cd to/location/of/winpm-32.exe wine winpm-32.exe -Z 128 "-Z 128" tells Pegasus not to load winsock. The parameter doesn't help now, unfortunately. It did in the past. I have used winecfg to test several different configurations with no success: builtin or native dlls seem to make no difference. I may have made a mistake here. I am not a knowledgable Wine user. In Wines windows/system directory, I have unsuccessfully tried the following: No change at all. My SuSE 9.0 version of winsock.dll and other dlls. A downloaded version of winsock.dll. I am only an amateur, but here is my guess about the cause of the problem: When winsock.dll (or the Linux equivalent) is loaded on demand, it is perhaps unloaded after sending or retrieving mail. Pegasus freezes. When winsock.dll is always loaded, it must be unloaded when the program exits. Pegasus freezes. This is my situation. Unfortunately, I dare not test the latest Wine version under SuSE 9.0 (assuming an rpm exists). I depend on email and will have to re-install my old 6G SuSE 9.0 harddisk if this problem is not solved. You probably already know if the problem is related to SuSE or to Wine. I am thankful for all help I can get. A related problem is described below. Roger -- http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-users/2005- September/018873.html I'm running SuSe linux professional v9.3 with wine v20050830. _snip_ 2. When exiting or closing the Pegasus mail window, the window stops responding, and must be closed with alt F4 or killed. This is not the case when - Z 128 is not used, leading me to think that this may be curable somehow. _snip_ _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
