[Bug 49611] All 16 & 32 bit windows apps crash when opening a file

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49611

--- Comment #51 from Michael F Winthrop <michael.f.winthrop at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Olivier F. R. Dierick from comment #47)
> Hello,
> 
> (In reply to joaopa from comment #44)
> > As already said, it is not a user forum. It is a bugzilla. Clearly, it is
> > not a bug in wine. You broke your user folder when using wine as root.
> 
> Yes, but we still have to check if the original issue with MIDISOFT Studio 4
> was fixed by installing 32-bit libvulkan, so we kind-of need to fix the file
> permissions too.
> 
> (In reply to joaopa from comment #44)
> > rm -fR .wine
> > rm -f ~/.local/share/mime/packages/x-wine*
> > rm -fR ~/.local/share/applications
> > rm -f ~/.local/share/icons/hicolor/*/*/application-x-wine-extension*
> > rm -f ~/.local/share/mime/application/x-wine-extension* 
> > WINEARCH=win32 wine notepad
> 
> Be careful when asking to 'rm' things. That deletes the files definitively.
> Make sure to backup any valuable file before deleting them.
> It is usually better to rename, or move the files/directories away when
> renaming is not enough.
> 
> (In reply to Michael F Winthrop from comment #39)
> > Created attachment 67813 [details]
> > notepad log and new-prefix-complaints
> 
> wineboot output is ok (it is normal to have those few ERR and FIXME lines).
> notepad output is ok, except for the broken files.
> 
> > 
> > Essentially original problem seems settled, but was asked to allow install
> > of gecko and another file while new prefix was created.
> > 2020-07-27-1128PM-EST-log-and-nrw-prefix-complaints.txt file is disturbing.
> 
> If you installed them, Wine will not ask you for Mono or Gecko again, until
> the next version upgrade.
> 
> (In reply to Michael F Winthrop from comment #42)
> > Repeated suggestion and this time less problems with notebook, but still
> > some:
> > dad at dad314159:~$ WINEARCH=win32 wine notepad
> > Could not parse file "/home/dad/.local/share/applications/gsview-2.desktop":
> > Invalid key name: Path[$e]
> > Could not parse file "/home/dad/.local/share/applications/gedit-2.desktop":
> > Invalid key name: Path[$e]
> > Could not parse file "/home/dad/.local/share/applications/gsview.desktop":
> > Invalid key name: Path[$e]
> > Could not parse file "/home/dad/.local/share/applications/Kate.desktop":
> > Invalid key name: Path[$e]
> 
> To fix your file permissions you have to find all files owned by root in
> your HOME directory and change the ownership back to your normal user (owner
> and group).
> Bugzilla is not meant to be a user help forum, so you'll have to search the
> web to get help for that:
> https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/22747/finding-files-by-their-owner-
> and-file-permissions
> https://askubuntu.com/questions/6723/change-folder-permissions-and-ownership
> 
> Once the files and directories are owned by your user again, you may either
> try to restore the wineprefix of your old MIDISOFT Studio 4 installation.
> If it still doesn't work, reinstall the application in a new wineprefix, as
> you did with notepad.
> 
> Regards.

sudo ls -Rl | grep root
no root owner or group in and below home directory.

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