[Bug 29341] New: Wine fails to populate its prefix if ~/.wine points to a non-existent directory

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29341

             Bug #: 29341
           Summary: Wine fails to populate its prefix if ~/.wine points to
                    a non-existent directory
           Product: Wine
           Version: 1.3.34
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: minor
          Priority: P2
         Component: wineserver
        AssignedTo: wine-bugs at winehq.org
        ReportedBy: t.artem at mailcity.com
    Classification: Unclassified


I have several wine prefixes but I want to keep the default ~/.wine temporary
thus I created a symbolic link from ~/.wine to /tmp/wine. I do it because I
don't want to have temporary software kept (and survive reboots) at all.

The problem is that my /tmp folder is a tmpfs mount point thus after every
(re)boot /tmp is empty and /tmp/wine doesn't exist any longer. In this case
wine fails to run with this message:

wine: chdir to /home/username/.wine
 : No such file or directory

Please, allow such a usage scenario (e.g. try to create ~/.wine regardless).

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