This is an issue I went round and round about a while ago, but did not have time to resolve. I posted this at linuxquestions.org, but this is really a wine issue. Forgive me for posting a subject that was once discussed at length as I've lost the responces people sent. I have Slackware 10.0 running, and have used for quite a while. I run the Windows Half-Life OP4 server using wine. To start this, I have to start either the Norton Commander for Windows, or the Total Commander for Windows, both windows file manager type of programs. From there, I start hlds.exe, and it runs just fine. Both of these file managers see ONLY C:\, the windows fake drive, and Z:\, which appears to be mapped to my linux root (this is not my doing, it just appears there and I'm guessing this is a feature of Wine). They see them as if they were windows drives, not linux drives. So, I navigate to z:\fat-d\hlserver\gearbox, where hlds.exe is located, and start it with appropriate switches. I've been doing this for about a year, and it works well. If I try to start if from konqueror, it fails to start: fixme:font:WineEngCreateFontInstance just using first face for now err:mmio:MMIO_ParseExtA No . in szFileName: "" err:mmio:MMIO_ParseExtA No . in szFileName: "Z:\\fat-d\\hlserver\\gearbox\\" wine: Unhandled exception (thread 003e), starting debugger... WineDbg starting on pid 0x3d Unhandled exception: page fault on read access to 0x00000000 in 32-bit code (0x01408d68). In 32 bit mode. Register dump: CS:0023 SS:002b DS:002b ES:002b FS:1007 GS:0000 EIP:01408d68 ESP:4068fb14 EBP:42ec0944 EFLAGS:00210246( - 00 -RIZP1) EAX:00000000 EBX:42ec0900 ECX:00000001 EDX:42ec0944 ESI:415d5d30 EDI:42ecc310 Stack dump: 0x4068fb14: 42ecc7d8 415d5d30 00000000 42ec09b4 0x4068fb24: 00000100 00000000 00000000 00000000 0x4068fb34: 00000136 00000000 0140cba5 42ff1130 0x4068fb44: 0140cbb6 42ff1130 00000000 00000001 0x4068fb54: 0003004c 42ff1130 00000000 00000000 0x4068fb64: 00000136 0000015e 42ea0fe7 00000001 0200: sel=1007 base=40016000 limit=00001f97 32-bit rw- Backtrace: =>1 0x01408d68 in hlds.exe -port 27014 (+0x8d68) (0x42ec0944) 2 0x42e9c550 in vgui2 (+0xc550) (0x42e9c230) 0x01408d68: movl 0x0(%eax),%edx Wine-dbg>parse error Wine-dbg> I'm not quite sure what is is telling me. Any ideas how to trouble shoot this, or where to go from here? Or why it works from the windows file manager programs, but not directly from konqueror?