[Wine] Problem Running wineboot.exe

[John Drescher]

On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 2:39 PM, Denpos <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> Whenever I try to open anything that has to do with wine (winecfg, run an exe with wine, uninstall wine programs,...) by using the GUI menu, I get the error "The program wineboot.exe has encountered a serious problem and needs to close.".
>
> So I tried using the terminal, which gives me the same error.
>
> But with su-privileges, I can get everything working: I can run winecfg, run wine *.exe,...
>

Do not do that. Using su, sudo or root is most likely the reason for
your problem. The first time you issued su you trashed the permissions
on your wine folder preventing it from working as your normal user.

John