Hello. I have been pretty satisfied with wine since I have become aware of its existance and am having a pretty good time with it. There are, however, a couple issues I can't wrap my head around. First of all, I cannot run regedit as root, it says: Code: wine: /home/mokuren/.wine is not owned by you I don't know how the root is supposed to "not own" something. This isn't a real problem since regedit runs fine not as root, but well... Second issue: I cannot rename keys in regedit. I need to create a Direct3D and a DirectInput key with a couple strings in order to fix some issues (one minor, one game-breaking) with a couple games. However, I am only able to create the keys, any attempt at renaming gives no benefit. It doesn't matter how many times and how hard I press F2 or how many times I right-click and choose "rename", it absolutely refuses to allow me to change a registry key's name. What went wrong?
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Mokuren<wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:> Hello. > > I have been pretty satisfied with wine since I have become aware of its existance and am having a pretty good time with it. There are, however, a couple issues I can't wrap my head around. > > First of all, I cannot run regedit as root, it says:Why do you need to run regedit as root?> Code: > wine: /home/mokuren/.wine is not owned by you > > > I don't know how the root is supposed to "not own" something. This isn't a real problem since regedit runs fine not as root, but well...Exactly. Root doesn't own it, mokuren does.> Second issue: I cannot rename keys in regedit. > > I need to create a Direct3D and a DirectInput key with a couple strings in order to fix some issues (one minor, one game-breaking) with a couple games. However, I am only able to create the keys, any attempt at renaming gives no benefit. > > It doesn't matter how many times and how hard I press F2 or how many times I right-click and choose "rename", it absolutely refuses to allow me to change a registry key's name. > > What went wrong?When you say rename, do you mean recase? That fails on windows as well. If renaming fails though, something is wrong. -- -Austin
austin987 wrote:> Why do you need to run regedit as root?No reason, it just felt weird that I couldn't austin987 wrote:> When you say rename, do you mean recase? That fails on windows as > well. If renaming fails though, something is wrong.I'm talking about renaming, I can create new keys that go by the default name (New Key #1 and so on) but any attempt at renaming does... Absolutely nothing. I mean: it's not that I rename it and the name doesn't stick, I don't even get to edit the name in the first place, the command does absolutely nothing
austin987 wrote:> Try in a clean wineprefix. What wine version?Wine version is 1.1.26 As a matter of fact, I have never used wineprefix, since regedit is builtin.
austin987 wrote:> Right, but if the registry is corrupted for some reason, could give > weird errors. Especially since you tried sudo'ing and such. > > Try: > $ mv ~/.wine ~/.wine.bak > $ wine regedit > > and see if it works.Yes, yes it works now. Could be because I installed/uninstalled some software in weird ways and such. Is there a way to fix this without reinstalling wine?
austin987 wrote:> Probably your root escapades.I was thinking winetricks actually, it always crashes after installing DirectX (thought they do work)