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Playonlinux Won\'t start

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Espectro Monday 4 August 2008 at 21:18
EspectroAnonymous

My Playonlinux won't start....

I satisfied all the dependencies. When i run the program doesn't show anything, it just stays still...



bash-3.1# ./playonlinux
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Specs:

Slackware 12.1
KDE 3.5.9
matt_sonic Tuesday 21 October 2008 at 19:39
matt_sonicAnonymous

The same happens to me when i try to run playonlinux, the script halts after the command "source "$PLAYONLINUX/lib/sources".
eden-san Monday 27 October 2008 at 5:14
eden-sanAnonymous

Same issue here.
Starting PlayOnLinux using bash or the shortcut will load the process without issuing any errors... But nothing happens...
Aymeric P. Sunday 9 November 2008 at 18:48
Aymeric P.

You are using Slackware ?
Can you add to the head of playonlinux file
set -x
And post the output here ?


(and if your bash output still very verbose after playonlinux stop, just run "set +x")

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gimpel Sunday 18 January 2009 at 18:45
gimpelAnonymous

I have the exact same problem, running Gentoo.

set -x gives:
+++ cat /home/tom/.PlayOnLinux/configurations/guis/fQMWB3PIKO1occLv6X0qBnOom4uaKq4PxkSA3VODHHQD0ZXU90
++ MESSAGE=
++ sleep 0.1
++ '[' '!' '' = MsgOut ']'
+++ cat /home/tom/.PlayOnLinux/configurations/guis/fQMWB3PIKO1occLv6X0qBnOom4uaKq4PxkSA3VODHHQD0ZXU90
+++ grep '^MsgOut$'
++ MESSAGE=
++ sleep 0.1
++ '[' '!' '' = MsgOut ']'
+++ cat /home/tom/.PlayOnLinux/configurations/guis/fQMWB3PIKO1occLv6X0qBnOom4uaKq4PxkSA3VODHHQD0ZXU90
+++ grep '^MsgOut$'
++ MESSAGE=
++ sleep 0.1

in some endless loop.

└» cat /home/tom/.PlayOnLinux/configurations/guis/fQMWB3PIKO1occLv6X0qBnOom4uaKq4PxkSA3VODHHQD0ZXU90
MsgIn
free_presentation
First use of PlayOnLinux
Welcome in PlayOnLinux first use assistant. Please ensure you are connected to the Internet.

Edited by gimpel

nutbag Monday 16 February 2009 at 22:02
nutbagAnonymous

for Slackware users you may be missing dependencies, I was.
you need imagemagik, cabextract and wxPython-2.8.9.1-i486-1. All are available from slackbuilds. Worked like a charm after i installed missing dependencies.