[Wine]Error writing temporary file. Make sure your temp folder is valid.

[Walt Ogburn]

Hi Mark,

The "#" at the end of the prompt traditionally goes with root, while an
ordinary user would have something different, like ">" or "$" or "%".

- Walter



On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, Mark Knecht wrote:

> On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 11:22:17 -0800 (PST), Walt Ogburn
> <reuben at ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote:
> > Hi Dan,
> >
> > Are you trying to run wine as root?  If so, why?
> >
> > - Walter
>
>
> Walt,
>    I don;t think he's trying to run as root:
>
> /home/gbdoco # wine --version
>
> However, I've run into this sort of thing a couple of times and
> haven't been able to explain it as of yet. He probably shoudll try to
> run it from the top of the Windows directory structure though. I've
> seen that help.
>
> - Mark
>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, Dan O wrote:
> >
> > > Here we go...
> > >
> > > Version
> > > SuSE:/home/gbdoco # wine --version
> > > Warning: the specified Windows directory L"C:\\Windows" is not accessible.
> > > Warning: the specified System directory L"C:\\Windows\\System" is not
> > > accessible.
> > > Wine 20041019
> > >
> > > I can see the config file,
> > >
> > > I have not modified anything.
> > >
> > > And I have tryed to install a couple apps, ABC bittorent client (just cause
> > > I had it lying around)
> > > WinAmp
> > > and exam essencials 5.5
> > >
> > > They all get the same error. "Error writing temporary file. Make sure your
> > > temp folder is valid."
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > "Mark Knecht" <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote in message
> > > news:5bdc1c8b04110906414316d78 at mail.gmail.com...
> > > > On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 00:27:26 -0600, Dan O <legacyboy at shaw.ca> wrote:
> > > > > "Error writing temporary file. Make sure your temp folder is valid."
> > > > >
> > > > > Can someone help out with this one? I have been trying to figure it out
> > > all
> > > > > day :(
> > > > >
> > > > > I have installed from the newest RPM for SuSE 9.1, and get the above as
> > > any
> > > > > user. I suspect there is something to be changed in the config file, but
> > > I
> > > > > have no idea where to start.
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks All,
> > > >
> > > > Hi Dan,
> > > >    A few questions:
> > > >
> > > > 1) What version of Wine? Run the command
> > > >
> > > > wine  --version
> > > >
> > > > 2) Are you using a config file? Assuming things are in the normal
> > > > place, run the command
> > > >
> > > > ls -al ~dan/.wine
> > > >
> > > > 3) Have you modified any of the links in dosdevices?
> > > >
> > > > ls -al ~dan/.wine/dosdevices
> > > >
> > > > 4) What application are you running that is causing this message? Is
> > > > it known to work according to the WineHQ application database?
> > > >
> > > > Let's start with that much and see where it leads.
> > > >
> > > > good luck,
> > > > Mark
> > >
> > >
> > >
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