WINECFG: Sound tab causes WINE to crash

[Shampyon]

I'll start winecfg, and everything's fine. Unless, that is, I decide to press the AUDIO tab. As soon as I press it, WINE (v0.9.16) begins to crash. The GUI window will remain open until I close the terminal I launched it from, and I get this error readout:

me@mycomputer:~$ sudo winecfg err:winecfg:load_drives GetVolumeInformation() for 'G:\' failed, setting serial to 0 ALSA lib seq_hw.c:456snd_seq_hw_open) open /dev/snd/seq failed: No such file or directory *** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0x7c037aa8 *** wine: Assertion failed at address 0xffffe410 (thread 0009), starting debugger...

I've found two possible solutions, but given that they appear quite different I thought it best to seek advice before trying one or the other.

From this thread:

I got the similar problem, the message is a bit different: ALSA lib seq_hw.c:455snd_seq_hw_open) open /dev/snd/seq failed: No such file or directory *** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0x7c069eb8 *** wine: Assertion failed at address 0xffffe410 (thread 0009), starting debugger... Winecfg crash when I select the audio folder. ============================================ Solved. The problem is the crash of artd during the automatic audio detection of wine. to solve it just rename /usr/lib/wine/winearts.drv.so to something like renaming /usr/lib/wine/winearts.drv.so.old The solution is in: Bye

And from this one:

Old post to comment to, but I found a partial answer for this. I had the winecfg crashing problem when going to the Audio tab, until I found my sound module wasn't loaded and ALSA compatible. I mod-probed the correct one and it doesn't crash now.

I don't know where to go from here. I'd love to get WINE up and running so I can use that handy little trick of running apps installed in my local XP partition. I miss uTorrent

[tsb]

I have this issue in MEPIS but not in Ubuntu. I hope someone figures it out.

[doancm2003]

from different search


1. to avoid crash, rename that file as suggest

2. the other error

in terminal code

sudo modprobe snd-seq

[Miguel]

OK, this sound tab thing also happens to me. Both in Dapper wine (0.9.9) and in 0.9.15 (I didn't activate winehq's repository). I will try now if renaming the file will work.

Anyway... the weird thing is that this didn't happen to me a while ago. At least when I was running dapper flight whatever (around march). I don't know if installing KDE and XFce would override some setting somewhere (like usplash).

BTW: Does anybody know why this happens?

EDIT: Modprobing snd_seq doesn't solve the crashes, but moving the winearts lib does (after removing all the snd_* modules, so I could isolate the cause of the crash). I don't know if wine will work now (it still complains about snd_seq), but at least I can configure it.

Thanks a lot! (even if I found this in a search)

[Shampyon]

I did the simple file rename fix, and everything seems fine.

[DaveNF2G]

mine keeps asking for libjack.so

I installed jack and jack-async and a search for libjack.so in particular in Synaptic turns up nothing.

[adab]

Try changing hardware acceleration in audio tab of winecfg to FULL.
Cya

[DaveNF2G]

It's already set to FULL.

Maybe I need to take a step backward. In the driver window, it lists ALSA, EsoundD, OSS, and NAS drivers. Which one should be selected?

Also, should the Driver Emulation box be checked or not?

[hubacap]

having similar problem - - when audio tab is clicked GUI closes and the following appears in Terminal.... complete noob here (to Linux and Ubuntu) so talk to me like I'm 2

Creating link /home/hubcap/.kde/socket-username-desktop.
can't create mcop directory

I kept searching and found this for a resolution...

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthre...mcop+directory

[!nkubus]

Really cool now I can listend to sound properly in wine

thanks