[Wine] Re: wineprefixcreate: msiexec.exe -- "Failed to open the service control manager"

[dank]

On Feb 27, 11:36 pm, "dank" <daniel.r.ke... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > When ~/.wine does not exist, or more specifically the system.reg does
> > not yet exist, wineprefixcreate delivers the message "Failed to open the
> > service control manager." I have tracked this down to the fact that
> > HKLM\CurrentControlSet\Services does not yet exist when the msiexec.exe
> > is registered and hence OpenSCManager fails.
>
> > What is the proper way to register this key.
>
> It's an open question.  Seehttp://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7402

Golly.  Alexandre must be watching this group, or something.
He committed a fix; wine-0.9.32 should have it when it's released in a
week or so.
- Dan