crossover on the final release of Breezy

Don W. Jenkins dwjenkins at sc-zg.com
Wed Nov 2 06:26:05 UTC 2005


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>>I don't know if anyone else is noticing a problem with using Crossover 
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>>Office on the final release of Breezy, but since I downloaded the
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>>5.10 final ISO and installed (after having no problems with Breezy 
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>>milestones and previews for months now) when I try to run the Windows 
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>>apps that I need to for work purposes on Crossover Office, they now seg
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>>fault after a second or two.  They do this whether in KDE, XFCE, 
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>>Fluxbox, etc.  It also makes no difference whether I use version 4.1 of
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>>Crossover or 5.0.  The only Windows app I use is Word, which I must use
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>>for templated documents from work.  For some reason the final Breezy 
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>>doesn't seem to play well with Crossover running Word, etc.  I may have
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>>to back up to a preview disc so I can function.  Just some feedback.  
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>>Right now I am in Windows so I can get some work done.  I thought I was
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>>through with this.
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>Quicken seems to work fine with Crossover 4.2 and 5.0.  I'm using the
>straight GNOME version of Breezy.  I'd installed 4.2 into Hoary.  Later
>updated to Breezy via apt-get.  Upgraded to Crossover 5.0.
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>...Peter
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I'm about to reinstall the preview version of Breezy, which worked, and 
do my upgrades from there, which also worked all right.  Something about 
the final CD has changed a lib somewhere that makes Crossover not work 
right.  I'll let you know if this works out.  It sounds about like what 
you are doing and what I was doing previously with no glitches. 

Don J.




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