[Wine] Re: "Failed to open the service control manager" -- is it OK?
Daniel Skorka
skorka at gmx.net
Mon Mar 19 00:52:21 CDT 2007
goldstein.mark at gmail.com wrote:
> Now, the first strange thing I see is that when I'm running
> wineprefixcreate, I'm getting this "Failed to open the service control
> manager" message when the script tries to issue "wine rundll32.exe
> setupapi.dll,InstallHinfSection DefaultInstall 128 wine.inf". But when
> after that I'm issuing the same command manually, it works OK.
All of us see this when we create a new .wine directory. No idea why,
but it has been like this for many versions, and seemingly is harmless.
> Is it a symptom of something wrong, or can I just ignore it and
> continue experimenting (I still fail to run IE)?
If you _really_ want IE, have a look at ies4linux
Daniel
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