Some wine apps stop responding

[Martin Rosenau]

In some situations an application does not react for some time. If I click the "close window" button in the window caption in this case Ubuntu shows some dialog window with some text like:

"The application does not react. Do you want to stop the application?" and two buttons: "Stop application" and "Wait". (I'm not using the English variant so I don't know the exact English text.)

The only way to get out of this situation seems to kill the application using "pkill -KILL application_name".

If I press "Stop application" or "Wait" (it does not matter which of both buttons I press!) the mouse cursor is still moving but nothing else on the GUI is working any more.

The only way to get out of this situation is to go to the text console (e.g. using Ctrl+Alt+F3), log in and kill the X server using "pkill -KILL Xorg".

Sometimes even a re-boot of the PC is necessary to get the GUI running again after this situation.

[Martin Rosenau (martin-djr)]

Up to now I've seen this dialog window when running Windows programs in Ubuntu using WINE only.

Maybe the problem is WINE specific.

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

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[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Since "the mouse cursor is still moving but nothing else on the GUI is working any more", that means the X server has not "crashed".

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

This sounds like an application freeze which then leads to a shell (but not the X server) freeze.

Please run this command to send us more information about the system:

apport-collect 1805782

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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