[Wine] Re: Wrong path to app.exe

[Usurp]

John Sved wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Yesterday (one day after its release) I installed WINE 1.0 via openSuSE 10.3 YAST - from repository.  I also installed WINE-DOORS 0.1.2.
> (first I unistalled and deleted earlier test installations and .wine folder)
> 
> Then I installed IE6 via the WINE-DOORS list.  This also installed a lot of other windows stuff.  This is often advised to support other apps.  Very nice!
> 
> IE6 was then tested.  It appeared to work OK.
> Then I installed via WINE-DOORS an app for work purposes.  WINE-DOORS also prompted for another windows app which then allows the help facility to actually display text.  Very nice!
> I installed TomTom Home2 and that was also OK although there is still the plugdev groups problem for SuSE.
> 
> All apps were manually registered in the KDE apps menue.  This worked.
> 
> But later .....  
> 
> Now none of these installed apps start.
> 
> Here is what was report from a console.
> 
> ####:/home/####/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Internet Explorer # wine iexplorer. exe
> wine: created the configuration directory '/root/.wine'
> Could not load Mozilla. HTML rendering will be disabled.
> wine: configuration in '/root/.wine' has been updated.
> wine: could not load L"C:\\windows\\system32\\iexplorer.exe": Module not found
> 
> BIT  each app.exe is in its own folder .... not in system32
> 
> Somehow WINE has changed the path information.
> 
> I have tried the root folded.  IE6 was started.  Again the was a prompt to install gecko.  After the installation the IE6 wind was blank and a menu (for Gecko stuff ?) could be invoked.
> 
> Before WINE 1.0  the installed windows apps at least loaded and ran "normally".
> 
> Any suggestions?

restart from scratch by erasing $HOME/.wine and dont use the root user.
http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-96bebfa287b4288974de0df23351f278b0d41014