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Tuesday 6 October 2009 at 22:48

Hi,
     
To answer the many questions, assumptions, questioning.

Yes the server that hosts the Wine versions for PlayOnLinux and DirectX (and some other files) is offline and you are getting this message "Wine packages website is unavailable".

We are currently looking for a solution to this problem and hope to return as soon as possible to normal.
Sorry for any inconvenience caused.

EDIT by Tinou : The problem will be solved very soon. Please be patient.

MulX

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nipuna Wednesday 7 October 2009 at 5:08 -
Rank: Guest Oh is that why the installer gets stuck at the first window when I'm trying to install COD4 in Karmic koala?

No worries mate. With all the help this softwear has done to the community this is fine and hope you will be able to fix it soon

Good luck.
dUc0N Wednesday 7 October 2009 at 5:52 -
Rank: Guest I'm sure it's been mentioned before, but this brings up a possible improvement to what seems like a great program. When there are network problems like this, would it be possible to set a timeout (maybe, 10 seconds no connection) and then give up? The way things are now, to learn what the problem was I had to run Wireshark and see that it wasn't touching the server. Otherwise, it just seemed broken, because it stopped and hung forever.

Just my $0.02.

~dUc0N
Shannon VanWagner Wednesday 7 October 2009 at 6:03 -
Rank: Guest I read somewhere in the forums to run playonlinux from the terminal in order to see more output. This invokes the GUI and shows information at the terminal for the actions that are going on in the background. I also see this:
--2009-10-06 20:51:21-- (try: 4) http://mulx.playonlinux.com/wine/linux-i386/LIST
Connecting to mulx.playonlinux.com|91.121.54.147|:80... failed: Connection timed out.
Retrying.


So to get the more verbose output of what's going on behind the scenes, run playonlinux from the terminal.

Hope to see the server back online soon... PlayOnLinux is an awesome util!

Regards,

Shannon VanWagner
GO GNU/Linux!
nipuna Wednesday 7 October 2009 at 6:51 -
Rank: Guest Thanks for the tip Shannon.
NSLW Wednesday 7 October 2009 at 7:50 -
Rank: Member

Member 		@dUc0N
Do you use PlayOnLinux 3.7? In this version i tried to show when connection to server cannot be established.
Insane1 Wednesday 7 October 2009 at 13:51 -
Rank: Guest Have to agree with dUcON on this one. While Shannon is right that the program isn't hard to run from terminal to check the issue out, there should still either be something actually stating that it's at the "Attempting to Connect" stage or something to have the program timeout if it fails to connect too many times (and thus states it as an error). Without such feedback it might seem like the program is just broken or doesn't work to windows users (who'll obviously use this program if they're recent coverts)...and even some like myself on an impatient day ^w^;

I waited nearly a half hour on a single screen thinking it was downloading DirectX only to find it was merely retrying to connect nearly 20 times! XD
dUc0N Wednesday 7 October 2009 at 16:07 -
Rank: Guest @NSLW:

Yes, I'm using the latest version, on Ubuntu Jaunty i386. I switch back after being fairly unable to get things working using Slackware 13.0 x86_64.

When I run it from the terminal, then I can see wget not making the connection... but even then, it just sort of hangs, only timing out after around three minutes before trying again. My recommendation would be to have it try 3x or so with a timeout, and then display a warning in the GUI... if it's supposed to do that already, mine doesn't seem to get that far.

I did let it run out and try five times, but three minutes seems almost absurdly long for a timeout. What I'd recommend would be something like this:
- Try to connect, 1min timeout, with a "Downloading <filename>" message for the user
- If it fails, set timeout to 2min, try again. User sees "Connection failed... trying to download <filename> again (2nd try)"
- If it fails again, keep timeout at 2min. User sees "Connection failed... trying to download <filename> again (3rd try)"
- If it fails a third time, pop up an error window that recommends they check their network connection, and visit the News URL to see if anything is broken.

I only recommend that because 18 minutes (or more) is a bit long to have the program sit there with no visual indication of what's happening... a novice user will just assume the program has hung or is broken.

~dUc0N
NSLW Wednesday 7 October 2009 at 18:01 -
Rank: Member

Member 		I understand where is the problem. I neither wrote POL nor have something to say in matter next POL releases. All requests should be directed to Tinou as he has unquestionable and undivided ruling.

In 3.7 version are some modifications written by me which shows errors at downloading, earlier there were nothing to check this not to mention nothing informed user. Disadvantage of such thing is that it has to receive some response from server that something is wrong to show message.
Now I modified POL to show error message after failed connection try for time of 5 secs. Modified package is at the end of this post. If it'll be in next POL then warning messages will be shown also when server doesn't response after 5 seconds.
fake Saturday 10 October 2009 at 17:34 -
Rank: Guest Hi there,
are there any news about this?
greets
Soka Saturday 10 October 2009 at 19:55 -
Rank: Guest whats going on?
could you please update your News?
did you need some help?
could we download somewhere data for off-line using?

Soka
NSLW Saturday 10 October 2009 at 20:47 -
Rank: Member

Member

Citation:

whats going on?

Wine version server is down and I suppose that wasn't expected.

Citation:

could we download somewhere data for off-line using?

All you would need is list with Wine versions and Wine versions themselves. As the server is offline you won't get neither of them.

I modified PlayOnLinux so it can download Wine versions from other sources. Disadvantages: you must have got cpio, rpm2cpio, lzma installed and you cannot add Wine versions from manager. Link to modified POL is at the end of this site

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