EA on Linux (wine) crash

[Faizol]

Hi all,

  I downloaded the latest trial and tried to run it on my laptop and it crashes everytime. I'm using Fedora 17 64 bit with 4 GB Ram and running EA using wine as recommended.

As far as I know, wine is still pretty much limited to 32bit with the 64bit version is still in development. But since wine is actually recommended for non Windows EA users, then most probably I've done something wrong somewhere.

Any advice on how should I proceed to have the EA trial version running on my system?

Also, even though this is a far fetch question, but I think it's reasonable for this to be brought up; is there any plans in the future to have a native Linux version of EA?

Thanks.

Cheers,
Faizol

[Makulik]

If that is feasible for you, I'd recommend to use Crossover instead of wine, it works a lot more stable and is much easier to use.

HTH
Günther

[Faizol]

Thanks for the reply. I'll do as the recommendation.

[Faizol]

Hi,

Tried both with Crossover and wine. On both occasions EA crashed. The latest Crossover is using wine 1.4 whereas the updated wine in Fedora repository is wine 1.5.

Also on both occasions the program generated backtrace,
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wine 1.5 : Unhandled exception: page fault on read access to 0x00000111 in 32-bit code (0xf6ac11bf).

Crossover : Unhandled exception: page fault on read access to 0x00000051 in 32-bit code (0xf6aaf8a0).

Any ideas on how should I proceed?

Thanks.

Cheers,
Faizol

[Aaron B]

How did you perform the install?  E.g. did you use the automated install process from the CodeWeavers website as described on the following page?
http://www.sparxsystems.com/support/faq/enterprise-architect-WINE.html#four

This automated install process should automatically install prerequisites such as fonts, msxml, mdac, etc.  Otherwise if installing via Wine you need to make sure all prerequisites are installed manually.

[Sunshine]

Interestingly I use EA on a Mac OS/X mountain lion. I've found cross over to occasionally crash but Wine seems a lot more stable

[Faizol]

How did you perform the install?  E.g. did you use the automated install process from the CodeWeavers website as described on the following page?
http://www.sparxsystems.com/support/faq/enterprise-architect-WINE.html#four

This automated install process should automatically install prerequisites such as fonts, msxml, mdac, etc.  Otherwise if installing via Wine you need to make sure all prerequisites are installed manually.

Thanks for the reply. I did follow the instruction to install it using Crossover and the installation went flawlessly. EA crashed whenever I tried to open the example files and so far I haven't been able to open the examples at all.

EDIT: I think I will redo the whole installation process again just to be sure. I have in the past failed to properly install some software due to corruption(?) during download. I'll report it back to the forum if it's a success or not.

Thanks.