wine users - Jan 2008 - System logout when installing software

Hi all,

Has anyone encountered this problem when installing software?
This software requires the system to reboot. However, when installing with
root permission, the system will not logout automatically.
After login again, I found that the files have been copied. It seems nothing
wrong exception system logout itself.

My system is ubuntu 7.10 with wine 0.9.46. The same problem pops up on Suse
10.3 with wine 0.9.52.

Thanks.

Milo Xu
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Hello,

Le lundi 21 janvier 2008 ? 10:45 +0800, Zhongli Xu a ?crit
:
> Hi all,
> 
> Has anyone encountered this problem when installing software?
> This software requires the system to reboot. However, when installing
> with root permission, the system will not logout automatically.
Never run wine as root, it won't work.
> After login again, I found that the files have been copied. It seems
> nothing wrong exception system logout itself. 
When a Windows application wants to reboot, you don't need to reboot
your Linux system (it doesn't make any good), just wine (you can use
wineboot or let the application ask wine to reboot itself).

Regards.

Jonathan

Hi James,

Thanks for the info.

On my ubuntu, I run wine as an account (not root) of administer. The setup
is OK.
But as an ordinary user, the system logout during the installation before I
can react. The windows software will install some drivers, which requires
reboot.

Does WINE has any method to prevent this automatic logout behavior?



On Jan 21, 2008 11:15 PM, James McKenzie <jjmckenzie51 at sprintpcs.com >
wrote:
> Zhongli Xu wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Has anyone encountered this problem when installing software?
> > This software requires the system to reboot. However, when installing
> > with root permission,
>
> NEVER RUN WINE AS ROOT.  It will not work properly and may leave leave
> Wine in an unusable state.  If the software requires Administrative
> rights, Wine will handle this and it does not require you to be root.
> > the system will not logout automatically.
> This is because you have to run wineboot or let Wine complete through
> and reset itself.
> > After login again, I found that the files have been copied. It seems
> > nothing wrong exception system logout itself.
> What is the program and has a bug been registered in the Wine Bugzilla?
> What happens if you try the install as an ordinary user?  If the install
> does not complete as an ordinary user, please file a bug in the Wine
> Bugzilla.
> >
> > My system is ubuntu 7.10 with wine 0.9.46. The same problem pops up on
> > Suse 10.3 with wine 0.9.52.
> >
> And it should.  Wine should not be run, ever, as root.
>
>
>
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