Remove ~/.picasa and try running picasa again
For whatever reason the content under that directory hangs up Picasa

Sometimes you may also get the agreement dialog if you don't shut down
the machine / unmount the disk properly. By removing ~/.picasa, this
also can be fixed.

The downside is you have to set up Picasa again and wait for the long
long indexing.

I'm trying to run picasa 2.6 on FC6 with Wine 0.9.31, and I always get
a hang-up with the splash screen on top of the picasa window.
I have tried to remove ~/.picasa without any luck.

I followed these instructions when installing:
http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Labs-Picasa-for-Linux/msg/783cd...

Any suggestion what might be causing this hang-up?

Regards
Mathias

On Feb 21, 11:33 am, "Darren Chuck" <darren.ch...@gmail.com> wrote:

If you are using official wine but not wine from google,
i.e. $WINEPREFIX=$HOME/.wine
you should remove picasa data under ~/.wine

Nobody wants to delete all the setup in wine just because a hangup in
picasa, so removing entire ~/.wine directory may not be an ideal
solution.

Depends on which windows version you have chosen, go to either:
~/.wine/drive_c/windows/profiles/$USERNAME/Local Settings/Application
Data/Google
or:
~/.wine/drive_c/Documents and Settings/$USERNAME/Local Settings/
Application Data/Google

remove Picasa* directories.

Let's see whether it helps.

--Darren

On Feb 24, 5:05 am, "mnk.dk" <www.mnk...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Feb 23, 1:05 pm, "mnk.dk" <www.mnk...@gmail.com> wrote:

If you followed those instructions, you're probably not using
wine-0.9.31;
those tell you to use the wine that comes with the old picasa.

What graphics card do you have?
What does
  WINEDEBUG=1 picasa
output?
- Dan

On Feb 24, 11:48 am, "dank" <daniel.r.ke...@gmail.com> wrote:

Sorry for not being precise. I was using wine-0.9.31 when running
picasaweb-current-setup.exe, but I did follow the instructions, hence
using the wine version shipped with picasa 2.2 for Linux when
experiencing the hang up.

"ATI Mobility Radeon X1300" (Chipset = 0x7149) - using fglrx driver,
but I am quite sure I have seen the same behavior with the radeon
driver.

[mnk@ccwork-mnk ~]$ WINEDEBUG=1 picasa
err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {a1f4e726-8cf1-11d1-bf92-0060081ed811}
not registered
err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {a1f4e726-8cf1-11d1-bf92-0060081ed811}
not registered
err:ole:create_server class {a1f4e726-8cf1-11d1-bf92-0060081ed811} not
registered
fixme:ole:CoGetClassObject CLSCTX_REMOTE_SERVER not supported
err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {a1f4e726-8cf1-11d1-
bf92-0060081ed811} could be created for for context 0x17
fixme:ole:CoCreateInstance no classfactory created for CLSID
{a1f4e726-8cf1-11d1-bf92-0060081ed811}, hres is 0x80004002
fixme:ole:CoResumeClassObjects stub
fixme:urlmon:InternetSession_RegisterNameSpace (0x7ecbcb10
{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000} L"http" 0 (nil) 0)
fixme:urlmon:DllGetClassObject {79eac9e5-baf9-11ce-8c82-00aa004ba90b}:
no class found.
err:ole:create_server class {79eac9e5-baf9-11ce-8c82-00aa004ba90b} not
registered
fixme:ole:CoGetClassObject CLSCTX_REMOTE_SERVER not supported
err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {79eac9e5-
baf9-11ce-8c82-00aa004ba90b} could be created for for context 0x17
fixme:urlmon:InternetSession_RegisterNameSpace ((nil)
{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000} L"https" 0 (nil) 0)
fixme:wininet:InternetGetConnectedState always returning LAN
connection.
[mnk@ccwork-mnk ~]$ fixme:win:FlashWindowEx 0x7fc292f8
fixme:dbghelp:MiniDumpWriteDump NIY MiniDumpWithHandleData
fixme:dbghelp:MiniDumpWriteDump NIY MiniDumpFilterMemory
fixme:advapi:RegisterEventSourceA ((null),"Picasa"): stub
fixme:advapi:RegisterEventSourceW (L"",L"Picasa"): stub
fixme:advapi:ReportEventA (0xcafe4242,0x0001,0x0000,0x00000001,(nil),
0x0001,0x00000000,0x7d0e69d0,(nil)): stub
fixme:advapi:ReportEventW (0xcafe4242,0x0001,0x0000,0x00000001,(nil),
0x0001,0x00000000,0x7fdb6558,(nil)): stub
err:eventlog:ReportEventW L"Picasa has crashed.  A crash dump has been
generated: C:\\windows\\temp\\Picasa070224-175222.dmp\nCrash ID =
45e06d471aa9."
fixme:advapi:DeregisterEventSource (0xcafe4242) stub

Thank you for your help!

/Mathias

On Feb 24, 11:02 am, "Darren Chuck" <darren.ch...@gmail.com> wrote:

As I just mentioned in a reply to dank, I actually did use the wine
version shipped by google when running picasa. 0.9.31 was what I used
for installation.

Sorry for not being precise, and thank you for your help.

/Mathias

On Feb 24, 9:01 am, "mnk.dk" <www.mnk...@gmail.com> wrote:

fglrx is a known offender.  See http://wiki.winehq.org/fglrx and/or
try
starting Picasa in a terminal window with LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1

- Dan

On Feb 25, 12:26 pm, "dank" <daniel.r.ke...@gmail.com> wrote:

It did not help to set LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1.
Now I have tried with the radeon driver, and still with no luck. Any
ideas?

Here is the debug output:

[mnk@gamma ~]$ WINEDEBUG=1 picasa
libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x4b
libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x4b
err:winspool:AddPrinterW Printername
L"HP_Color_LaserJet_2840_172.16.2.33" must not exceed length of
DEVMODE.dmDeviceName !
err:winspool:CUPS_LoadPrinters printer
'HP_Color_LaserJet_2840_172.16.2.33' not added by AddPrinterA (error
124)
libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x4b
err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {a1f4e726-8cf1-11d1-bf92-0060081ed811}
not registered
err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {a1f4e726-8cf1-11d1-bf92-0060081ed811}
not registered
err:ole:create_server class {a1f4e726-8cf1-11d1-bf92-0060081ed811} not
registered
fixme:ole:CoGetClassObject CLSCTX_REMOTE_SERVER not supported
err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {a1f4e726-8cf1-11d1-
bf92-0060081ed811} could be created for for context 0x17
fixme:ole:CoCreateInstance no classfactory created for CLSID
{a1f4e726-8cf1-11d1-bf92-0060081ed811}, hres is 0x80004002
libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x4b
libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x4b
err:winspool:AddPrinterW Printername
L"HP_Color_LaserJet_2840_172.16.2.33" must not exceed length of
DEVMODE.dmDeviceName !
err:winspool:CUPS_LoadPrinters printer
'HP_Color_LaserJet_2840_172.16.2.33' not added by AddPrinterA (error
124)
fixme:ole:CoResumeClassObjects stub
fixme:urlmon:InternetSession_RegisterNameSpace (0x7e0fcab8
{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000} L"http" 0 (nil) 0)
fixme:urlmon:DllGetClassObject {79eac9e5-baf9-11ce-8c82-00aa004ba90b}:
no class found.
err:ole:create_server class {79eac9e5-baf9-11ce-8c82-00aa004ba90b} not
registered
fixme:ole:CoGetClassObject CLSCTX_REMOTE_SERVER not supported
err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {79eac9e5-
baf9-11ce-8c82-00aa004ba90b} could be created for for context 0x17
fixme:urlmon:InternetSession_RegisterNameSpace ((nil)
{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000} L"https" 0 (nil) 0)
libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x4b
err:winspool:AddPrinterW Printername
L"HP_Color_LaserJet_2840_172.16.2.33" must not exceed length of
DEVMODE.dmDeviceName !
err:winspool:CUPS_LoadPrinters printer
'HP_Color_LaserJet_2840_172.16.2.33' not added by AddPrinterA (error
124)
fixme:wininet:InternetGetConnectedState always returning LAN
connection.
fixme:win:FlashWindowEx 0x7f9192f8
fixme:dbghelp:MiniDumpWriteDump NIY MiniDumpWithHandleData
fixme:dbghelp:MiniDumpWriteDump NIY MiniDumpFilterMemory
fixme:advapi:RegisterEventSourceA ((null),"Picasa"): stub
fixme:advapi:RegisterEventSourceW (L"",L"Picasa"): stub
fixme:advapi:ReportEventA (0xcafe4242,0x0001,0x0000,0x00000001,(nil),
0x0001,0x00000000,0x73c2e9d0,(nil)): stub
fixme:advapi:ReportEventW (0xcafe4242,0x0001,0x0000,0x00000001,(nil),
0x0001,0x00000000,0x7facff68,(nil)): stub
err:eventlog:ReportEventW L"Picasa has crashed.  A crash dump has been
generated: C:\\windows\\temp\\Picasa070307-204722.dmp\nCrash ID =
45ef172a19386."
fixme:advapi:DeregisterEventSource (0xcafe4242) stub

/Mathias