[Wine]Error writing temporary file. Make sure your temp folder is valid.

[Walt Ogburn]

Hi Dan,

Are you trying to run wine as root?  If so, why?

- Walter



On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, Dan O wrote:

> Here we go...
>
> Version
> SuSE:/home/gbdoco # wine --version
> Warning: the specified Windows directory L"C:\\Windows" is not accessible.
> Warning: the specified System directory L"C:\\Windows\\System" is not
> accessible.
> Wine 20041019
>
> I can see the config file,
>
> I have not modified anything.
>
> And I have tryed to install a couple apps, ABC bittorent client (just cause
> I had it lying around)
> WinAmp
> and exam essencials 5.5
>
> They all get the same error. "Error writing temporary file. Make sure your
> temp folder is valid."
>
>
>
>
> "Mark Knecht" <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:5bdc1c8b04110906414316d78 at mail.gmail.com...
> > On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 00:27:26 -0600, Dan O <legacyboy at shaw.ca> wrote:
> > > "Error writing temporary file. Make sure your temp folder is valid."
> > >
> > > Can someone help out with this one? I have been trying to figure it out
> all
> > > day :(
> > >
> > > I have installed from the newest RPM for SuSE 9.1, and get the above as
> any
> > > user. I suspect there is something to be changed in the config file, but
> I
> > > have no idea where to start.
> > >
> > > Thanks All,
> >
> > Hi Dan,
> >    A few questions:
> >
> > 1) What version of Wine? Run the command
> >
> > wine  --version
> >
> > 2) Are you using a config file? Assuming things are in the normal
> > place, run the command
> >
> > ls -al ~dan/.wine
> >
> > 3) Have you modified any of the links in dosdevices?
> >
> > ls -al ~dan/.wine/dosdevices
> >
> > 4) What application are you running that is causing this message? Is
> > it known to work according to the WineHQ application database?
> >
> > Let's start with that much and see where it leads.
> >
> > good luck,
> > Mark
>
>
>
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