I have RTFM but it is limited on offering help when a problem crops up for a noob who is not a programmer. I DL and installed the WINE program on my Ubuntu 7.10 and can see it on the Applications. Selecting 'Configure Wine' brings up the 'grey' screen but nothing I do to it seems to function. I opened the terminal and typed 'winecfg' and stuff happens like: 'bob at XPS:~$ winecfg fixme:ntdll:FILE_GetNtStatus Converting errno 40 to STATUS_UNSUCCESSFUL Warning: the specified Windows directory L"c:\\windows" is not accessible. fixme:ntdll:FILE_GetNtStatus Converting errno 40 to STATUS_UNSUCCESSFUL Warning: the specified System directory L"c:\\windows\\system32" is not accessible. fixme:ntdll:FILE_GetNtStatus Converting errno 40 to STATUS_UNSUCCESSFUL fixme:ntdll:FILE_GetNtStatus Converting errno 40 to STATUS_UNSUCCESSFUL fixme:ntdll:FILE_GetNtStatus Converting errno 40 to STATUS_UNSUCCESSFUL fixme:ntdll:FILE_GetNtStatus Converting errno 40 to STATUS_UNSUCCESSFUL ad nauseum ' So, to paraphrase a disgruntled individual when asked this question replied that I should RTFM, well how do I proceed with the F setup? :-) No matter which version of Windows I selected from Vista to the oldest one, nothing happens. Where am I going wrong? and is there a noob manual that gets to the nitty-gritty of its operation? The user manual is pretty vague on some issues that would help if explained more in detail so's us dummies could understand. bob [Question]
The manual is not going to help you much. Did you compile it yourself? it seems that Wine is not loading correctly a library.
sgtbob wrote:> I have RTFM but it is limited on offering help when a problem crops up for a noob who is not a programmer. > > I DL and installed the WINE program on my Ubuntu 7.10 and can see it on the Applications. Selecting 'Configure Wine' brings up the 'grey' screen but nothing I do to it seems to function. > > I opened the terminal and typed 'winecfg' and stuff happens like: 'bob at XPS:~$ winecfg > fixme:ntdll:FILE_GetNtStatus Converting errno 40 to STATUS_UNSUCCESSFUL > Warning: the specified Windows directory L"c:\\windows" is not accessible. > fixme:ntdll:FILE_GetNtStatus Converting errno 40 to STATUS_UNSUCCESSFUL > Warning: the specified System directory L"c:\\windows\\system32" is not accessible. > fixme:ntdll:FILE_GetNtStatus Converting errno 40 to STATUS_UNSUCCESSFUL > fixme:ntdll:FILE_GetNtStatus Converting errno 40 to STATUS_UNSUCCESSFUL > fixme:ntdll:FILE_GetNtStatus Converting errno 40 to STATUS_UNSUCCESSFUL > fixme:ntdll:FILE_GetNtStatus Converting errno 40 to STATUS_UNSUCCESSFUL > ad nauseum > ' > > So, to paraphrase a disgruntled individual when asked this question replied that I should RTFM, well how do I proceed with the F setup? :-) > > No matter which version of Windows I selected from Vista to the oldest one, nothing happens. Where am I going wrong? and is there a noob manual that gets to the nitty-gritty of its operation? The user manual is pretty vague on some issues that would help if explained more in detail so's us dummies could understand. >Do the following: rm -rf ~/.wine wine notepad And then try to run winecfg It appears that your user's .wine folder is corrupt. Also, make sure your user and write to the $HOME directory and that you never run Wine as root using sudo (it does bad things like not allowing your user to write to the directory structure.) James
James - I completely removed WINE via Synaptic, then re-installed it (version 0.9.57) then used your instructions: rm -rf ~/.wine and then wine notepad. If I use the winecfg in the terminal here is the result: bob at XPS:~$ rm -rf ~/.wine bob at XPS:~$ wine notepad wine: creating configuration directory '/home/bob/.wine'... err:reg:SCSI_getprocentry bus id line scan count error (fscanf returns 0, expected 4) Could not load Mozilla. HTML rendering will be disabled. wine: '/home/bob/.wine' created successfully. err:reg:SCSI_getprocentry bus id line scan count error (fscanf returns 0, expected 4) bob at XPS:~$ Then if I run winecfg in the teminal, here is what I see: bob at XPS:~$ winecfg err:reg:SCSI_getprocentry bus id line scan count error (fscanf returns 0, expected 4) In addition to the foregoing, there is a box that appears with the 7 tabs and indicating Windows 2000. I changed to Windows XP and clicked on the C:/ ...drive and clicked on 'autodetect'. It appeared to pick up my CDRom and Thunb Drives. But I can't figure out what I should do at this point. The written instructions infer that I should open any '.exe' file, but there aren't any that I can see. Now what? Bob [/b]
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 1:49 PM, sgtbob <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:> I completely removed WINE via Synaptic, then re-installed it (version 0.9.57) > then used your instructions: rm -rf ~/.wine and then wine notepad.Great! So it works.> If I use the winecfg ...Why are you using winecfg? Why not just run your app? See Question #1 in http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ - Dan
Dan - how do you run the application if I do not see an .exe file? This may sound dumber than a box of hammers, but I am unable to figure the operation out.... bob [Rolling Eyes]
Trying another approach as suggested, I opened a terminal and entered: bob at XPS:~$ wine PandoSetup.exe err:reg:SCSI_getprocentry bus id line scan count error (fscanf returns 0, expected 4) wine: could not load L"C:\\windows\\system32\\PandoSetup.exe": Module not found bob at XPS:~$ So then I tried another one: bob at XPS:~$ wine PandoSetup.exe err:reg:SCSI_getprocentry bus id line scan count error (fscanf returns 0, expected 4) wine: could not load L"C:\\windows\\system32\\PandoSetup.exe": Module not found bob at XPS:~$ What must I do? Bob [Embarassed] [Embarassed]
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 3:36 PM, sgtbob <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:> Trying another approach as suggested, I opened a terminal and entered: > > bob at XPS:~$ wine PandoSetup.exe > > err:reg:SCSI_getprocentry bus id line scan count error (fscanf returns 0, expected 4) > wine: could not load L"C:\\windows\\system32\\PandoSetup.exe": Module not foundYou forgot to cd to the directory containing PandoSetup.exe, I think.
Alan - your reply seems logical to me, but how do I '...let Wine create it's own Windows-like setup on a Linux disk,...' - in other words, what is the exact procedure? I've monkeyed around with this for 6 months and have not been able to run Windows apps through Wine, even though some stuff seems to have been set up on my system which looks liek wine features... Bob
For further clarification and future purposes, the wine installation is a folder in your home directory named .wine You won't see it unless you use the key combo ctrl+h to reveal hidden files and folders. Inside of it will be a folder named "drive_c" which is wine's virtual C drive. From that point on, the layout is similar in appearance to an actual windows installation. This is nice so if you ever needed to meddle with your programs files or throw in a Windows-native DLL, the proper folders will be as easy to locate as the ones on a real Windows installation.