[Wine]Re: cannot run Wine

[Holly Bostick]

bea.gr wrote:

>First of all..
>thanks for all the replies , I'm not alone in the dark...
>then ..
>It seems that it's not a problem of permission on the directory fake-windows :
>"chmod 700 /home/bea.gr/.wine/fake-windows" change absoluty nothing
>and my wine config are correct (it seems to be)
>The problem is in the symlinks in the directory .wine/dosdevices/
>before the change I made, two symlinks were wrong and seems to go to nowhere 
>(as I tried in the shell and kde):
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>lrwxrwxrwx    1 bea.gr   users          29 2004-06-19 07:33 c: -> ../
>${HOME}/.wine/fake_windows
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>lrwxrwxrwx    1 bea.gr   users          10 2004-06-19 07:33 y: -> ../${HOME}
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>then I recreated the links :
>lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           32 2004-07-02 23:31 c: -> /home/
>bea.gr/.wine/fake_windows/
>lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           13 2004-07-02 23:34 y: -> /home/
>bea.gr/
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>and it works now with no such that message anymore :
>"Warning: the specified Windows directory L"C:\\Windows" is not 
>accessible"....
>I can launch "wine notepad" without problems
>???? a reason for this ?
>
>Bea.gr 
>thanks a lot 8-)
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Well, the only thing that's different is that instead of using the 
variable ${HOME}, you're now using the full path to the home directory.


Frankly, I'm not surprised that changing that fixed it, as in a year of 
using Wine, I have never known that variable to actually work properly. 
I thought it was just me.

Glad you got it fixed.

Holly

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>>I run WINE on Suse9.0 and it runs fine (I dont know wether Suse9.0 has utf-8
>>as default). As far as I know there are at least two wrong configurations
>>which cause a
>>"Warning: the specified Windows directory L"C:\\Windows" is not accessible"
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>>First, your fake-windows drive ("c:") is not  set up correctly or the
>>permissions on the fake-win directory are wrong. (By the way in newer WINE
>>versions there are symlinks in .wine/dosdevices not in the drive sections in 
>>the wine config file)
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>>Second, the path two the windows system directory in wine config is wrong.
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>>I never experienced any other problems accessing a fake-win directory. If you
>>post your drives section/dosdevices directory listing and the permissions on
>>your win drive, maybe I can help you.
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>>cu,
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>>Stefan
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