wine users - Jul 2008 - New install not working

OK, it has nothing to do with trying to run a setup.exe off of floppy.

I've installed 1.0.r4 -- yes, it's kind of old, but seems to be the
latest binary available for FreeBSD 7 -- and it doesn't want to run
anything I've tried.  For example:

$ rm -rf .wine
$ wine notepad
wine: created the configuration directory '/home/perryh/.wine'
wineserver: fcntl /tmp/.wine-105/server-53-772d/lock : Invalid argument

Now what?

> I've installed 1.0.r4 -- yes, it's kind of old, but seems to be the
> latest binary available for FreeBSD 7 -- and it doesn't want to run
> anything I've tried.  For example:
>
> $ rm -rf .wine
> $ wine notepad
> wine: created the configuration directory '/home/perryh/.wine'
> wineserver: fcntl /tmp/.wine-105/server-53-772d/lock : Invalid argument
>
> Now what?
Anyone have an idea?  Do I have to attempt building from source,
even though that's generally not recommended for non-experts?

perryh wrote:
> 
> > I've installed 1.0.r4 -- yes, it's kind of old, but seems to
be the
> > latest binary available for FreeBSD 7 -- and it doesn't want to
run
> > anything I've tried.  For example:
> > 
> > $ rm -rf .wine
> > $ wine notepad
> > wine: created the configuration directory '/home/perryh/.wine'
> > wineserver: fcntl /tmp/.wine-105/server-53-772d/lock : Invalid
argument
> > 
> > Now what?
> > 
> 
> Anyone have an idea?  Do I have to attempt building from source,
> even though that's generally not recommended for non-experts?

Wine always have problems with FreeBSD. If you really want to use Wine, *BDS is
not an option.

check to see if a bug report has been filed, if not file one.

perryh wrote:
> 
> > There are number of bugs for Wine not working on *BSD ... in most
> > cases there is nothing Wine can do - it's the OS limitations that
> > cause all the problems.
> > 
> 
> Is there a list of those OS limitations somewhere?  I'm a lot more
> familiar with FreeBSD than with either Wine or Windows, so might
> conceivably be able to work on fixing some of the limitations.
> 
> My interest in all this is to run one particular Windows app on
> FreeBSD.  I've gotten the impression that Wine is probably the most
> promising way to accomplish this, in addition to being a Good Thing
> as a matter of principle.
Wine is the only thing you can use other then VM to run windows apps on *NIX.

You can search bugzilla for the  list of FreeBSD bugs
(http://bugs.winehq.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&op_sys=FreeBSD)