[Wine] System logout when installing software

Jonathan Ernst jonathan at ernstfamily.ch
Mon Jan 21 08:48:12 CST 2008


Hello,

Le lundi 21 janvier 2008 à 10:45 +0800, Zhongli Xu a écrit :
> Hi all,
> 
> Has anyone encountered this problem when installing software?
> This software requires the system to reboot. However, when installing
> with root permission, the system will not logout automatically.

Never run wine as root, it won't work.

> After login again, I found that the files have been copied. It seems
> nothing wrong exception system logout itself. 

When a Windows application wants to reboot, you don't need to reboot
your Linux system (it doesn't make any good), just wine (you can use
wineboot or let the application ask wine to reboot itself).

Regards.

Jonathan





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