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program already running.. closing

Postby newsraider » Fri Dec 22, 2006 7:02 pm

i have installed unbuntu 6.10 and install wine and am trying to get newsbin going. i did the install with wine and it made the directory and made a link to newsbin on the desktop and i clicked on it and went to asking me for my news settings well after that it closed because i didnt have the dll loaded so went and got those and put them in the system directory, but now it wont open at all. the computer is crunching like it will open something, but never does and then i get a message saying already running and it has to close.

any ideas?
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Postby itimpi » Fri Dec 22, 2006 7:19 pm

It sounds as if there is already a NBPro process left running in the background. This needs to be killed before you can start another one.
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Postby DThor » Fri Dec 22, 2006 7:39 pm

Definitely as you're getting things setup, run wine from the command line, not via icons("wine nbpro.exe" should do it). It tends to answer some questions like this. itimpi might be right in that the older wine session is still active, and it tends to collide with the later. Sometimes it doesn't shut down cleanly. Otherwise it might give you a useful message. Once things are running smoothly, using the taskbar icons, etc should work fine.

The version of the dll's are relevant - make sure they're recent and not the one's you get from most linux wine sites. Use a real windows install.

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Postby newsraider » Sun Dec 24, 2006 2:06 am

ok got things running and it was the dll files that were giving me problems. i downloaded them from the web, but then after you said that i went back and got them from my xp partition and it runs now :D

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