Hi, I'm playing around with installation of a number of older, Win 98/Win ME era sound programs. One I'm working on right now comes up with what, for me, is sort of a standard problem. I get a dialog box with this message: "Severe - Unable to create a directory under C:\PROG~FBU\GSampler. Please check write access to this directory." I'm running the installation form an xterm. The only thing in the xterm seems pretty benign: flash cdrom $ fixme:dialog:MSGBOX_OnInit task modal msgbox ! Not modal yet. The current contents of the GSampler directory are: flash mark $ ls c/Program\ Files/GSampler/ CD1FileSize.lst CD2FileSize.lst CD3FileSize.lst CRP32DLL.DLL CRP9516E.DLL CRYP95E.DLL DeIsL1.isu GS.HLP GSEDIT.HLP GSEnv.dll SCONVERT.HLP Sconvert.exe VRTKRNLD.vxd XCK16DB.EXE gs.exe gsdll.dll gsedit.exe midi.drv mp3FileSize.lst oemFileSize.lst oemFileSize_GetsAppendedToCD1FileSizeForLeOemBuilds.lst register.txt release.txt unstall.dll flash mark $ ls c/Program\ Files/GSampler/ Now, the GSampler directory was created by this install program. Why can't this program create a directory under GSampler? Permissions look like: flash mark $ ls c/Program\ Files/GSampler/ls -al c/Program\ Files/ ls: c/Program Files/GSampler/ls: No such file or directory c/Program Files/: total 36 drwxr-xr-x 9 mark users 4096 Oct 20 10:52 . drwxr-xr-x 8 mark users 4096 Oct 18 19:05 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 mark users 4096 May 26 10:20 Common Files drwxr-xr-x 4 mark users 4096 Oct 18 18:11 Finale NotePad 2004 drwxr-xr-x 2 mark users 4096 Oct 20 10:52 GSampler drwxr-xr-x 3 mark users 4096 Sep 19 15:53 Native Instruments drwxr-xr-x 3 mark users 4096 May 28 07:55 Sonic Foundry Setup drwxr-xr-x 4 mark users 4096 Sep 18 08:59 Steinberg drwxr-xr-x 2 mark users 4096 Sep 18 11:44 Vstplugins flash mark $ And the Wine threads seemed to be owned by me: mark .. 10:51 0:11 /usr/bin/wineserver mark .. 10:51 0:09 /usr/bin/wine-pthread E:\_ins0432._mp -fS:\SETUP.INS -z1 -cx -xE:\ What can I do to allow the program to write to this location??? Thanks, Mark
Mark Knecht
2004-Oct-25 11:05 UTC
[Wine]Re: "Severe - Unable to create a directory under ..."
Trying again. Any ideas on this one? Frist sent last Wednesday. No responses so far. Thanks, Mark On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 11:02:10 -0700, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:> Hi, > I'm playing around with installation of a number of older, Win > 98/Win ME era sound programs. One I'm working on right now comes up > with what, for me, is sort of a standard problem. I get a dialog box > with this message: > > "Severe - Unable to create a directory under C:\PROG~FBU\GSampler. > Please check write access to this directory." > > I'm running the installation from an xterm. The only thing in the > xterm seems pretty benign: > > flash cdrom $ fixme:dialog:MSGBOX_OnInit task modal msgbox ! Not modal yet. > > The current contents of the GSampler directory are: > > flash mark $ ls c/Program\ Files/GSampler/ > CD1FileSize.lst > CD2FileSize.lst > CD3FileSize.lst > CRP32DLL.DLL > CRP9516E.DLL > CRYP95E.DLL > DeIsL1.isu > GS.HLP > GSEDIT.HLP > GSEnv.dll > SCONVERT.HLP > Sconvert.exe > VRTKRNLD.vxd > XCK16DB.EXE > gs.exe > gsdll.dll > gsedit.exe > midi.drv > mp3FileSize.lst > oemFileSize.lst > oemFileSize_GetsAppendedToCD1FileSizeForLeOemBuilds.lst > register.txt > release.txt > unstall.dll > flash mark $ ls c/Program\ Files/GSampler/ > > Now, the GSampler directory was created by this install program. Why > can't this program create a directory under GSampler? Permissions look > like: > > flash mark $ ls c/Program\ Files/GSampler/ls -al c/Program\ Files/ > ls: c/Program Files/GSampler/ls: No such file or directory > c/Program Files/: > total 36 > drwxr-xr-x 9 mark users 4096 Oct 20 10:52 . > drwxr-xr-x 8 mark users 4096 Oct 18 19:05 .. > drwxr-xr-x 2 mark users 4096 May 26 10:20 Common Files > drwxr-xr-x 4 mark users 4096 Oct 18 18:11 Finale NotePad 2004 > drwxr-xr-x 2 mark users 4096 Oct 20 10:52 GSampler > drwxr-xr-x 3 mark users 4096 Sep 19 15:53 Native Instruments > drwxr-xr-x 3 mark users 4096 May 28 07:55 Sonic Foundry Setup > drwxr-xr-x 4 mark users 4096 Sep 18 08:59 Steinberg > drwxr-xr-x 2 mark users 4096 Sep 18 11:44 Vstplugins > flash mark $ > > And the Wine threads seemed to be owned by me: > > mark .. 10:51 0:11 /usr/bin/wineserver > mark .. 10:51 0:09 /usr/bin/wine-pthread E:\_ins0432._mp > -fS:\SETUP.INS -z1 -cx -xE:\ > > What can I do to allow the program to write to this location??? > > Thanks, > Mark >