[Bug 18614] Problem with starting of wine or winecfg

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18614

rmaz at gmx.net changed:

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--- Comment #5 from rmaz at gmx.net 2011-04-19 14:30:00 CDT ---
I'm having the same annoying problem with wine versions 1.2.{1,2,3} and 1.3.x
for months now on a Gentoo system where the dependencies were updated from
rather old to very new over this time, both with distribution packages and
manual installs. It used to work before that; I think it *may* have become
broken when the X server went from using hal to udev; at least it happened
around this time. But disabling hal support in wine, or enabling the hald
daemon regardless, doesn't solve it.

However, a google search shows that the problems has appeared for people over
the years. People are suspecting all kinds of things from home directory
permissions to incompatible graphics drivers. A comment of one of the more
lucky victims in https://bugs.launchpad.net/wine/+bug/296753 sums the general
experience up nicely:

"Don't know what caused the problem. Don't know what fixed it."

I would suggest that the real bug here is the error message "open_mountmgr
failed to open mount manager", which apparently is not very successful in
connecting the wine-internal problem, whatever it is, to an external reality
that the user has a chance to investigate and address.

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