wine users - Feb 2006 - Beginner needs help !

Hello everybody.

I am not new to linux but new to wine.
I run Fedora Core 4.

I tried various rpms for wine (from fedora extras, from
newrpms.sunsite.dk, and from winehq), with always the same conclusion :
I am unable to run anything, even winecfg.

[wec@wec-vero ~]$ winecfg
wine: creating configuration directory '/home/wec/.wine'...

No error message, but no window opens :-((

I can get the control back with Ctrl-C, which leaves several processes
(wineserver,wine-preloader,and wineprefixcreate). I can kill them all except
wine-preloader (even with kill -9). I now have a bunch of them...

Anyone got an idea ?

	WEC.

> I am unable to run anything, even winecfg.
> [wec@wec-vero ~]$ winecfg
> wine: creating configuration directory '/home/wec/.wine'...
> No error message, but no window opens :-((
    Does it actually create the directory /home/wec/.wine ?
    Is there anything in it after this happens?
    Have you tried running the wincfg program as root?

    A dumb question, but I'll ask anyway, you are in an x-windows
session, right?

   Also, try setting a WINEDEBUG option and dump the output
to a file.  Perhaps it will shed some light on the issue.
When I run (with a working wine system):

WINDEBUG="+all" winecfg >& ./winecfg.debug

   This produces about 68M of output, so you might try just using
"warn+all" and maybe that will show enough to give you a heads up
as to the problem.
> I can get the control back with Ctrl-C, which leaves several
> processes (wineserver,wine-preloader,and wineprefixcreate).
> I can kill them all except wine-preloader (even with kill -9).
> I now have a bunch of them...
   Try using "kill -KILL".  That always takes care of any stubborn
processes on my system.


Mr Duck

In my case also !!
> > Try to rename one of those to .wine and run winecfg.
> 
> In my case, winecfg still hangs after renaming the directory.
> 
> Ben

Sorry I spoke too quickly.
After a certain time, it worked !

Now the launching time seems normal.

Thank you Jonathan !


On Sat, 4 Feb 2006 19:05:56 +0100
Fabien Perdu <fabien.perdu@m4x.org> wrote:
> In my case also !!
> 
> > > Try to rename one of those to .wine and run winecfg.
> > 
> > In my case, winecfg still hangs after renaming the directory.
> > 
> > Ben