[Wine] Weird error.

[Austin English]

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 1:32 PM, miniboom <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> Hello everybody, i 'm new here, i 'm new with linux and i want break up friendship with windows :)
>
> but... i run the game(Ancient Conquest), it was made 10 years ago and dont work on windows XP(for me, maybe for someone work).
>
> Problem is with ...yea what's the problem. i ran setup of this game and installed to C:\Program Files\Ancient Conquest\. i run it after i used CD to enter folder with executeable file. Game worked fine, but after reboot it crashes ? i reinstalled the wine, game, everything. And i received these errors from console :
>
>
> Code:
> minib00m at linux-ttsp:~/Desktop> sudo su

That's your problem? Why in the name of the flying spaghetti monster
are you running it as root?

> linux-ttsp:/home/minib00m/Desktop # cd..
> linux-ttsp:/home/minib00m # cd .wine
> linux-ttsp:/home/minib00m/.wine # cd drive_c
> linux-ttsp:/home/minib00m/.wine/drive_c # cd "Program Files"
> linux-ttsp:/home/minib00m/.wine/drive_c/Program Files # ls
> Common Files  Internet Explorer
> linux-ttsp:/home/minib00m/.wine/drive_c/Program Files # wine
> Usage: wine PROGRAM [ARGUMENTS...]   Run the specified program
>       wine --help                   Display this help and exit
>       wine --version                Output version information and exit
> linux-ttsp:/home/minib00m/.wine/drive_c/Program Files # cd "Ancient Conquest"
> linux-ttsp:/home/minib00m/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Ancient Conquest # wine ancient.exe
> wine: created the configuration directory '/root/.wine'
> Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded.
> Make sure that your X server is running and that $DISPLAY is set correctly.
> Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded.
> Make sure that your X server is running and that $DISPLAY is set correctly.
> err:ole:apartment_createwindowifneeded CreateWindow failed with error 1114
> err:ole:apartment_createwindowifneeded CreateWindow failed with error 1114
> Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded.
> Make sure that your X server is running and that $DISPLAY is set correctly.
> err:ole:apartment_createwindowifneeded CreateWindow failed with error 1114
> err:ole:apartment_createwindowifneeded CreateWindow failed with error -536870654
> err:ole:apartment_createwindowifneeded CreateWindow failed with error -536870654
> err:ole:apartment_createwindowifneeded CreateWindow failed with error -536870654
> Could not load Mozilla. HTML rendering will be disabled.
> err:ole:apartment_createwindowifneeded CreateWindow failed with error -536870654
> err:ole:apartment_createwindowifneeded CreateWindow failed with error -536870654
> err:ole:apartment_createwindowifneeded CreateWindow failed with error 0
> err:ole:apartment_createwindowifneeded CreateWindow failed with error -536870654
> err:ole:apartment_createwindowifneeded CreateWindow failed with error 0
> err:ole:apartment_createwindowifneeded CreateWindow failed with error -536870654
> err:ole:apartment_createwindowifneeded CreateWindow failed with error -536870654
> err:wgl:process_attach X11DRV or GDI32 not loaded. Cannot create default context.
> wine: configuration in '/root/.wine' has been updated.
> Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded.
> Make sure that your X server is running and that $DISPLAY is set correctly.
> Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded.
> Make sure that your X server is running and that $DISPLAY is set correctly.

A) The program isn't installed for root, so will fail. B) root doesn't
have access to $DISPLAY, so it fails.



-- 
-Austin