[Wine] Beginner needs help !

[Ben Collver]

I am having the same problem here on NetBSD/i386 3.0, with the same
results, except that I am able to kill the processes after breaking out
of winecfg.

Ben

On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 06:55:30AM +0100, Fabien Perdu wrote:
> On Fri, 03 Feb 2006 16:41:58 -0600
> Mr Duck <tld at codeexamples.org> wrote:
> 
> > > I am unable to run anything, even winecfg.
> > > [wec at wec-vero ~]$ winecfg
> > > wine: creating configuration directory '/home/wec/.wine'...
> > > No error message, but no window opens :-((
> > 
> >     Does it actually create the directory /home/wec/.wine ?
> 
> Not precisely.
> It creates a directory
> such as .wine-gA1cDR/ .wine-GTMM10/ .wine-jaHZgc/ .wine-Xv08Dy/,
> a different one each time...
> 
> >     Is there anything in it after this happens?
> 
> These directories all contain dosdevices  drive_c (with a whole
> hierarchy) system.reg and user.reg
> 
> >     Have you tried running the wincfg program as root?
> 
> Yes, same business...
> 
> > 
> >     A dumb question, but I'll ask anyway, you are in an x-windows
> > session, right?
> 
> Of course :-))
> Actually with a KDE desktop.
> 
> >    Also, try setting a WINEDEBUG option and dump the output
> > to a file.  Perhaps it will shed some light on the issue.
> > When I run (with a working wine system):
> > 
> > WINDEBUG="+all" winecfg >& ./winecfg.debug
> 
> [wec at wec-vero ~]$ WINDEBUG="+all" winecfg >& ./winecfg.debug
> ^C
> [wec at wec-vero ~]$ cat winecfg.debug
> wine: creating configuration directory '/home/wec/.wine'...
> [wec at wec-vero ~]$
> 
> > > I can get the control back with Ctrl-C, which leaves several
> > > processes (wineserver,wine-preloader,and wineprefixcreate).
> > > I can kill them all except wine-preloader (even with kill -9).
> > > I now have a bunch of them...
> > 
> >    Try using "kill -KILL".  That always takes care of any stubborn
> > processes on my system.
> 
> Not any difference with kill -9.
> 
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