Wine Runtime Error

[trigpoint]

I have been using wine to run a mapping application called Tracklogs. It provides Ordnance Survey 1:25000 mapping that can be printed as well as upload routes to my GPS.

It has worked perfectly since Fedora 8, I last updated wine appDb in January 2010 reporting that it was working with Fedora 12 and wine version 1.1.32.

Since wine has been updated, I now get an error dialog "Microsoft Visual C++, This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way. Please contact the applications's support team for more information".

As far as I am aware tracklogs does not use Visual C++ Runtime, so I am not sure why it is even installed. It is a clean install of wine and this is the only application I have.

It has worked consistently for over 2 years and 4 versions of Fedora and no doubt multiple updates of wine, but at some point recently something has changed with wine that causes this error. Have they included Visual C++ Runtime by default? Is there anyway to get rid of it?

Any ideas? Thanks for reading this.

[sidebrnz]

If you haven't rebooted since updating wine, there might be an old version of wineserver still running. Open a terminal and run this:

su -c 'killall -9 wineserver'

and then try again. I had a similar problem yesterday, and used that to solve it.