I've had deadlocks every time I've tried to play Half-Life (1) on the current Ubuntu and current WINE. Had to restart the computer each time.
Other programs seemed to be fine, but I imagine Half-Life is much more "intensive" than mIRC (for example).
Ed
Stefan Dösinger wrote:
Hi
Wine is a user-level process, it shouldn't be able to cause a hardlock under any circumstances, right?
Correct.
The operating system must prevent user level apps from locking the system. So hard crashes are by definition NOT wine's bug.
I think its not the kernel that crashes, rather the X server that fails to process new input. Often sshing in works, then you can kill the Wine process keeping the X server hostage or the X server itself and your system works again. That doesn't help the average user of course.