ntdll: add a warning about running wine as root (resend)
Vitaliy Margolen
wine-devel at kievinfo.com
Mon Feb 9 19:57:50 CST 2009
Alexandre Julliard wrote:
> James Mckenzie <jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net> writes:
>
>> It does not hurt anything but Wine's reputation. I don't know, but
>> the phrase "I would rather be run over rather than run down" does
>> apply here. In other words, we should be getting positive responses
>> to user experiences, rather than dealing with newbies having to delete
>> their .wine directories because they ran Wine as root without setting
>> to the root environment.
>
> Again, please demonstrate the exact sequence that leads to an actual
> problem, not just vague hearsay of people reporting problems that may or
> may not have anything to do with this.
>
Will this work? BTW default Open SuSE configuration.
vitaliy at dragon:~ $export WINEPREFIX=~/.wine-root
vitaliy at dragon:~ $sudo wine winecfg
root's password:
wine: created the configuration directory '/root/.wine'
Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded.
Make sure that your X server is running and that $DISPLAY is set correctly.
Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded.
Make sure that your X server is running and that $DISPLAY is set correctly.
err:ole:apartment_createwindowifneeded CreateWindow failed with error 1114
err:ole:apartment_createwindowifneeded CreateWindow failed with error 1114
Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded.
Make sure that your X server is running and that $DISPLAY is set correctly.
err:ole:apartment_createwindowifneeded CreateWindow failed with error 1114
err:ole:apartment_createwindowifneeded CreateWindow failed with error -536870654
err:ole:apartment_createwindowifneeded CreateWindow failed with error -536870654
err:ole:apartment_createwindowifneeded CreateWindow failed with error -536870654
Could not load Mozilla. HTML rendering will be disabled.
err:ole:apartment_createwindowifneeded CreateWindow failed with error -536870654
err:ole:apartment_createwindowifneeded CreateWindow failed with error -536870654
err:ole:apartment_createwindowifneeded CreateWindow failed with error 0
err:ole:apartment_createwindowifneeded CreateWindow failed with error -536870654
err:ole:apartment_createwindowifneeded CreateWindow failed with error 0
err:ole:apartment_createwindowifneeded CreateWindow failed with error -536870654
err:ole:apartment_createwindowifneeded CreateWindow failed with error -536870654
err:wgl:process_attach X11DRV or GDI32 not loaded. Cannot create default context.
wine: configuration in '/root/.wine' has been updated.
Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded.
Make sure that your X server is running and that $DISPLAY is set correctly.
Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded.
Make sure that your X server is running and that $DISPLAY is set correctly.
err:ole:apartment_createwindowifneeded CreateWindow failed with error 1114
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