wine users - Nov 2008 - wine fails to run with: "KERNEL32.DLL" failed to initialize

I'm use Gentoo and I've tried wine-1.1.4 as well as the latest version
from git.  No matter which wine command I try, the error is always just about
the same:

# winecfg
err:heap:HEAP_GetPtr Invalid heap (nil)!
err:heap:HEAP_GetPtr Invalid heap (nil)!
err:module:attach_process_dlls "KERNEL32.dll" failed to initialize,
aborting
err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for
L"C:\\windows\\system32\\wineboot.exe" failed, status c0000005
err:heap:HEAP_GetPtr Invalid heap (nil)!
err:heap:HEAP_GetPtr Invalid heap (nil)!
err:module:attach_process_dlls "KERNEL32.dll" failed to initialize,
aborting
err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for
L"C:\\windows\\system32\\winecfg.exe" failed, status c0000005

I've tried deleting .wine and I've tried running as a normal user and as
root with the same results.  Does anyone know how to fix this?

On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 2:02 AM, ggking7 <wineforum-user at winehq.org>
wrote:
> I'm use Gentoo and I've tried wine-1.1.4 as well as the latest
version from git.  No matter which wine command I try, the error is always just
about the same:
>
> # winecfg
> err:heap:HEAP_GetPtr Invalid heap (nil)!
> err:heap:HEAP_GetPtr Invalid heap (nil)!
> err:module:attach_process_dlls "KERNEL32.dll" failed to
initialize, aborting
> err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for
L"C:\\windows\\system32\\wineboot.exe" failed, status c0000005
> err:heap:HEAP_GetPtr Invalid heap (nil)!
> err:heap:HEAP_GetPtr Invalid heap (nil)!
> err:module:attach_process_dlls "KERNEL32.dll" failed to
initialize, aborting
> err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for
L"C:\\windows\\system32\\winecfg.exe" failed, status c0000005
>
> I've tried deleting .wine and I've tried running as a normal user
and as root with the same results.  Does anyone know how to fix this?
Remove ~/.wine and run as normal user.


-- 
-Austin

austin987,

Thank you for your response, but as I said I've already tried that.  Here it
is without .wine as a normal user:

$ winecfg
wine: created the configuration directory '/home/grant/.wine'
err:heap:HEAP_GetPtr Invalid heap (nil)!
err:heap:HEAP_GetPtr Invalid heap (nil)!
err:module:attach_process_dlls "KERNEL32.dll" failed to initialize,
aborting
err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for
L"C:\\windows\\system32\\wineboot.exe" failed, status c0000005
err:heap:HEAP_GetPtr Invalid heap (nil)!
err:heap:HEAP_GetPtr Invalid heap (nil)!
err:module:attach_process_dlls "KERNEL32.dll" failed to initialize,
aborting
err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for
L"C:\\windows\\system32\\winecfg.exe" failed, status c0000005

Thank you, my kernel's pax support was causing the problem.