On 7/15/2010 7:34 AM, James Mckenzie wrote:
Marc Chamberlin<marc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Version 1.1.50_1.2rc7-1.1-i586 of Wine broke my ability to use the USB
port with a Western Digital Passport disk drive. That prevents me from
using the PortableApps tools under Wine on Linux. It also caused file
corruption on my Passport drive and required a significant amount of
effort for me to recover. So DO NOT use this version with USB disk drives!!
This has got to be a Linux issue. I use a Passport drive on my Mac without issue.
Can you look at what Linux does with the drive. Also, and as far as I know, there is no security software for Linux. If you enabled the security features of the drive in Windows, the drive should be invisible to Linux.
James - Thanks for your replies... I have not had any USB issues
either, with using my Passport under Linux/Wine until I upgraded to rc7.
And then I started experience all sorts of problems... Typically, the
drive would mount OK as far as Linux was concerned, then I would use
wine to launch to PortableApps control application. That much would
"appear" to work fine, but then I would launch the PortableApps version
of Thunderbird, Firefox or some other app and soon discover that the
Passport drive was no longer writable and act as if it had been mounted
somehow as a read-only device. (Not true, it was originally mounted as
read/write) That in turn, of course, lead to these apps crashing and
locking up the drive. I would have to kill the processes at that point,
and it was at this point I discovered that the Passport file system had
become corrupted. Dropping back to an earlier version of wine has
resolved this and my Passport is again working fine. Therefore I must
disagree with you as the evidence seems to strongly indicate this is a
wine issue and not a Linux one...
Sure would have been nice if a README or Release Notes had been included
with my distro's package (openSuSE11.2) giving me a heads up on this USB
issue, especially since it is apparently a known issue to the developers!
Known issue to which developers? Maybe OpenSUSE, but certainly not Wine's as you are the first person to describe this problem. Again, a Linux issue is not a Wine issue.
As I replied earlier, I inferred this was a known issue from yours, and
Sven's responses earlier in this thread...
I downgraded Wine back to version 1.1.28-2.3-i586 which does work, but I
am back to living with some font problems in Thunderbird that I was
hoping the upgrade would fix.. Guess I will live with that for awhile
longer...
That is a long way back (.50 versus .28). Do you know when this actually 'broke'?
I use the versions of wine that have been vetted by the openSuSE distro
and placed in their repositories. These are the only two versions of
wine available at the moment, for openSuSE11.2. So no, I do not know
when this actually 'broke', just that when I picked up the latest
version - rc7 from their "factory" repository, my Passport drive failed
on me as described....
(My reasons for trying the upgrade was to see if it might resolve some
font issues I am having with using the PortableApps version of
Thunderbird. For example it will not properly display the '<' character
(less than). The native version of Thunderbird, under Linux, does
display this and other characters just fine, hence my suspicion that
this is also a wine issue....)
A regression test is in order. However, I normally would recommend a backup, but these external devices are usually purposed for this.
James McKenzie
Marc...
