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

[Holly Bostick]

Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 11:22:17 -0800 (PST), Walt Ogburn
> <reuben at ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote:
> 
>>Hi Dan,
>>
>>Are you trying to run wine as root?  If so, why?
>>
>>- Walter
> 
> 
> 
> Walt,
>    I don;t think he's trying to run as root:
> 
> /home/gbdoco # wine --version
> 
> However, I've run into this sort of thing a couple of times and
> haven't been able to explain it as of yet. He probably shoudll try to
> run it from the top of the Windows directory structure though. I've
> seen that help.
> 
> - Mark
> 
> 
>>
>>
>>
>>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
>>>
>>>
  In all of this discussion, have we in fact checked the error itself; 
i.e., is the folder that Wine is using for /temp valid?

Wine by default uses /temp (the Linux temp folder) for its temp folder.

Does the user have write permission to this directory? If not, any 
attempt to install anything will fail, because most (if not all) 
installers extract files to /temp before the install begins (that's what 
  that progress bar on the InstallShield installer is doing, that's why 
you have to wait a few seconds before the big blue install screen pops up).

The other issue (somewhat related, actually)

Warning: the specified Windows directory L"C:\\Windows" is not accessible.

is an error we've seen several times when people who had an 
"old-fashioned" Wine install (pre-dosdevices) try to upgrade to a 
"new-fangled" Wine install-- and doesn't SuSE install some old version 
of Wine during its install (in the name of user-friendliness)?

I forget atm how it is solved, but the answer is surely in the archives.

HTH,
Holly