[Wine] Regedit issues, not owned by root

Austin English austinenglish at gmail.com
Wed Aug 5 15:21:55 CDT 2009


On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Mokuren<wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
>
> austin987 wrote:
>> Right, but if the registry is corrupted for some reason, could give
>> weird errors. Especially since you tried sudo'ing and such.
>>
>> Try:
>> $ mv ~/.wine ~/.wine.bak
>> $ wine regedit
>>
>> and see if it works.
>
>
> Yes, yes it works now.
>
> Could be because I installed/uninstalled some software in weird ways and such.

Probably your root escapades.

> Is there a way to fix this without reinstalling wine?

Try:
$ sudo chown -R mokuren ~/.wine

-- 
-Austin



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