[Wine]Problem starting wine

[Donald E Haselwood]

Holly,

Thanks for the tip.  Removing re-installing did not work until I removed, 
deleted the .wine directory, and reinstalled.  It now works.

Don



On Friday 04 February 2005 12:26, Holly Bostick wrote:
> Donald E Haselwood wrote:
> > Any suggestions to fix the following?
> >
> > After upgrading from Suse 9.1 to 9.2.  I get the messages
> >
> >     Warning: The specified Windows directory L"C:\\Windows" is not
> > accessible.
> >     Warning: The specified Windows directory L"C:\\Windows\\System" is
> > not accessible.
> >
> > It does this on two programs that worked correctly with Suse 9.1, but
> > fail after the upgrade.
> >
> > After the upgrade, the Linux startup had a warning with each windows
> > partition mount:
> > utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT ...
> >
> > Based on a www search I changed the charset to cp850, which eliminated
> > the warning, but it did not change the wine startup problem.  My
> > understanding is that the IO charset involves translation of the file
> > names, which could be a source of the wine startup problem.
> >
> > Don
>
> I recently upgraded SuSE 9.1 to 9.2 myself and had no problems... but
> then again, I uninstalled Wine first, then reinstalled it after the
> upgrade.
>
> I would imagine that your problem is that you are using the "old" SuSE
> 9.1 binary under SuSE 9.2-- because I also assume that there is a reason
> that there are separate Wine packages for SuSE 9.1 and 9.2 on the
> download site at
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=6241&package_id=79444
> .
>
> If you uninstall the RPM, your ~/.wine folder will not be removed, so
> everything should be OK when you install the 9.2 RPM. But of course, if
> you're really worried, back up the wine registry and config files first,
> then restore them if needed.
>
> HTH,
> Holly
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