[Wine] wine fails to run with: "KERNEL32.DLL" failed to initialize

[Austin English]

On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 2:02 AM, ggking7 <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> I'm use Gentoo and I've tried wine-1.1.4 as well as the latest version from git.  No matter which wine command I try, the error is always just about the same:
>
> # winecfg
> err:heap:HEAP_GetPtr Invalid heap (nil)!
> err:heap:HEAP_GetPtr Invalid heap (nil)!
> err:module:attach_process_dlls "KERNEL32.dll" failed to initialize, aborting
> err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L"C:\\windows\\system32\\wineboot.exe" failed, status c0000005
> err:heap:HEAP_GetPtr Invalid heap (nil)!
> err:heap:HEAP_GetPtr Invalid heap (nil)!
> err:module:attach_process_dlls "KERNEL32.dll" failed to initialize, aborting
> err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L"C:\\windows\\system32\\winecfg.exe" failed, status c0000005
>
> I've tried deleting .wine and I've tried running as a normal user and as root with the same results.  Does anyone know how to fix this?

Remove ~/.wine and run as normal user.


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-Austin