[Wine] Wine 1.1.7 and 1.0.1 not working on Intrepid 64 bit

[Austin English]

On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 12:28 AM, nanonils <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> I posted this on Ubuntuforums but after reading a bit more it seems this is mostly used for gaming questions so I decided to come here.
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> I am running 64 bit Ubuntu intrepid (still a beta but a release candidate). I can see Wine in my application menu but when I go to Programs/Acessories/Notepad nothing happens. I am unable to open the configuration nor am I able to uninstall using the Applications menu option.
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> I had Picasa installed. Upon searching around (how on earth do I get Google desktop to also search my file system, not just my home folder?) I found that Picasa has a Wine folder here: /opt/google/picasa/3.0
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> I uninstalled and installed 1.0.1, the stable version twice from the repositories using Synaptics without change - still not able to configure Wine. I then added the development packages of Wine to my software sources as described here, updated and reinstalled: http://www.winehq.org/site/download-deb
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> Still no luck. I'm really lost here. Wine works OK on two other computers we have.
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> When I use my system monitor to check for what processes open when I click e.g. notepad, notepad and wineserver show for a second but then vanish.
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> Removing Picasa does not change a thing. After repeat install of Wine it still doesn't work. I'm totally lost. Why doesn't a fresh install via Synaptics fix it? When I now search for wine I find a large directory here: /usr/lib32/wine
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> If I run winecfg from the console I get:
> laptop:~$ winecfg
> err:module:import_dll Library rpcrt4.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\services.exe") not found
> err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L"C:\\windows\\system32\\services.exe" failed, status c0000135
> err:wineboot:start_services_process Unexpected termination of services.exe - exit code -1073741515
> err:module:import_dll Library rpcrt4.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\ole32.dll") not found
> err:module:import_dll Library ole32.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\winecfg.exe") not found
> err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L"C:\\windows\\system32\\winecfg.exe" failed, status c0000135
> nils at nils-laptop:~$ winecfg
> err:module:import_dll Library rpcrt4.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\services.exe") not found
> err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L"C:\\windows\\system32\\services.exe" failed, status c0000135
> err:wineboot:start_services_process Unexpected termination of services.exe - exit code -1073741515
> err:module:import_dll Library rpcrt4.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\ole32.dll") not found
> err:module:import_dll Library ole32.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\winecfg.exe") not found
> err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L"C:\\windows\\system32\\winecfg.exe" failed, status c0000135
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Sounds like you goofed up your config somehow. Try:
$ rm -rf ~/.wine

To delete your config and start fresh.

-- 
-Austin