Having problems with configuring wine and installing MS Office 2016

axoxx · 23 July 2022 07:58

I installed wine, wine-tricks and wine-gecko on my laptop. When i try to open winecfg for the default wine storage or any other custom storage, winecfg doesn’t open. Instead the terminal stays stuck at:

MESA-INTEL: warning: Performance support disabled, consider sysctl dev.i915.perf_stream_paranoid=0
MESA-INTEL: warning: Performance support disabled, consider sysctl dev.i915.perf_stream_paranoid=0
MESA-INTEL: warning: Performance support disabled, consider sysctl dev.i915.perf_stream_paranoid=0
wine: Unhandled page fault on execute access to 00007FB37B0A0B80 at address 00007FB37B0A0B80 (thread 00d8), starting debugger...
wine: Unhandled page fault on execute access to 00007F9ABE7D1B80 at address 00007F9ABE7D1B80 (thread 00a4), starting debugger...
00e0:fixme:unwind:virtual_unwind calling personality routine in system library not supported yet
wine: Unhandled page fault on execute access to 00007F3C43B2A600 at address 00007F3C43B2A600 (thread 00e0), starting debugger...

Later, I tried to install MS Office 2016 using Use Bottles. I could open configure the virtual drive their, but the installation would get stuck midway and show " Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2016 encountered an error during setup". All the possible windows solutions show fixes using task scheduler, but bottles doesnt have it.

anon89812132 · 23 July 2022 08:21

And did you try to do what is suggesting there, or at least search for it?
You can try

sudo sysctl dev.i915.perf_stream_paranoid=0

before running wine and see if that helps … and if it does, see how you make it permanent.

linux-aarhus · 23 July 2022 08:26

Using Crossover is probably the best way to run office 2016 - without having to do extensive configuration by hand

megavolt · 23 July 2022 08:26

Maybe a problem with a hybrid gpu? I had recently such a problem…

axoxx · 24 July 2022 05:06

I used it but still winecfg doesnt open.

This is the out put of sudo sysctl --system :

* Applying /usr/lib/sysctl.d/10-manjaro.conf ...
fs.inotify.max_user_instances = 1024
fs.inotify.max_user_watches = 524288
* Applying /usr/lib/sysctl.d/50-coredump.conf ...
kernel.core_pattern = |/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-coredump %P %u %g %s %t %c %h
kernel.core_pipe_limit = 16
fs.suid_dumpable = 2
* Applying /usr/lib/sysctl.d/50-default.conf ...
kernel.sysrq = 16
kernel.core_uses_pid = 1
net.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filter = 2
sysctl: setting key "net.ipv4.conf.all.rp_filter": Invalid argument
net.ipv4.conf.default.accept_source_route = 0
sysctl: setting key "net.ipv4.conf.all.accept_source_route": Invalid argument
net.ipv4.conf.default.promote_secondaries = 1
sysctl: setting key "net.ipv4.conf.all.promote_secondaries": Invalid argument
net.ipv4.ping_group_range = 0 2147483647
net.core.default_qdisc = fq_codel
fs.protected_hardlinks = 1
fs.protected_symlinks = 1
fs.protected_regular = 1
fs.protected_fifos = 1
* Applying /usr/lib/sysctl.d/50-pid-max.conf ...
kernel.pid_max = 4194304
* Applying /usr/lib/sysctl.d/60-libvirtd.conf ...
fs.aio-max-nr = 1048576
* Applying /usr/lib/sysctl.d/60-qemu-postcopy-migration.conf ...
vm.unprivileged_userfaultfd = 1
* Applying /etc/sysctl.d/99-i915psp.conf ...
dev.i915.perf_stream_paranoid = 0

axoxx · 24 July 2022 06:52

i swithced to nvidia gpu from intel gpu. Now winecfg works and opens but software installation failed. It also created entrys for the nonexisting application.

Ben · 24 July 2022 13:13

I’m sure I’d go with Virtualbox and give it a separate monitor/desktop to play on.