wine users - Sep 2009 - Problem with wine creating folders on installs

Code:
 bobby at tux ~ $ wine --version
wine-1.1.29



i tried installing several games, perfect world international, jade dynasty,
atlantica and installation goes through up until to a certain percentage where a
window comes up with a "Failed to create C:\Program Files\Perfect World
Entertainment\Perfect World International" (for example) message and when i
click OK on that window, the whole progress regresses and the game is
uninstalled.

i have tried version 1.1.24 with the same result.  i think wine does not have
authority to create those folders but i dont know why.

please help

> i tried installing several games, perfect world international, jade
dynasty, atlantica and installation goes through up until to a certain
percentage where a window comes up with a "Failed to create C:\Program
Files\Perfect World Entertainment\Perfect World International" (for
example) message and when i click OK on that window, the whole progress
regresses and the game is uninstalled.
>
> i have tried version 1.1.24 with the same result. ?i think wine does not
have authority to create those folders but i dont know why.
>
I seriously doubt that the problem is a permissions issue. It's more
likely that some unimplemented part of wine is causing the installer
to fail. Read the FAQ and post terminal output.

John

h2sammo wrote:
> i tried installing several games, perfect world international, jade
dynasty, atlantica and installation goes through up until to a certain
percentage where a window comes up with a "Failed to create C:\Program
Files\Perfect World Entertainment\Perfect World International" (for
example) message
Terminal output? You haven't moved default c: location are you?

i dont see an error in the terminal output. 

wine output stops at the moment it asks me where to install the game.  it opens
the exe file just fine, the installation runs, but when it gets to 99% it stops
and uninstalls everything.


Code:
 bobby at tux ~ $ wine /home/bobby/Downloads/PWI_v166_XP.part1.exe
fixme:shell:SHAutoComplete SHAutoComplete stub
fixme:shdocvw:PersistStreamInit_InitNew (0x1612a0)
fixme:urlmon:URLMoniker_BindToObject use running object table
fixme:system:SetProcessDPIAware stub!
fixme:dwmapi:DwmIsCompositionEnabled 0x327f58
fixme:iphlpapi:NotifyAddrChange (Handle 0x212e918, overlapped 0x212e920): stub
fixme:iphlpapi:GetAdaptersAddresses no support for IPv6 addresses
0[173828]: IMM32: InitKeyboardLayout, aKeyboardLayout=04090409, sCodePage=1252,
sIMEProperty=00090000
fixme:shdocvw:ClOleCommandTarget_QueryStatus (0x161340)->((null) 1 0x328520
(nil))
fixme:shdocvw:ClOleCommandTarget_Exec (0x161340)->((null) 25 2 0x328534
(nil))
fixme:shdocvw:ClOleCommandTarget_Exec (0x161340)->((null) 26 2 0x328534
(nil))
fixme:mshtml:OleControl_OnAmbientPropertyChange offline connection is not
supported
fixme:mshtml:OleObject_SetClientSite silent == true
fixme:shdocvw:ClientSite_GetContainer (0x161340)->(0x328570)
fixme:mshtml:set_moniker silent == true
fixme:mshtml:set_moniker offline == true
fixme:shdocvw:ClOleCommandTarget_Exec
(0x161340)->({000214d1-0000-0000-c000-000000000046} 37 0 0x3285fc (nil))
fixme:shdocvw:ClOleCommandTarget_Exec
(0x161340)->({000214d1-0000-0000-c000-000000000046} 84 0 (nil) 0x328624)
fixme:mshtml:PersistStreamInit_InitNew (0x162730)
fixme:shdocvw:OleObject_Close (0x1612a0)->(1)
fixme:mshtml:HlinkTarget_SetBrowseContext (0x162730)->((nil))
fixme:shdocvw:OleInPlaceObject_UIDeactivate (0x1612a0)
fixme:shdocvw:OleInPlaceObject_InPlaceDeactivate (0x1612a0)
fixme:shdocvw:PersistStreamInit_InitNew (0x1612a0)
fixme:urlmon:URLMoniker_BindToObject use running object table
fixme:shdocvw:ClOleCommandTarget_QueryStatus (0x161340)->((null) 1 0x328520
(nil))
fixme:shdocvw:ClOleCommandTarget_Exec (0x161340)->((null) 25 2 0x328534
(nil))
fixme:shdocvw:ClOleCommandTarget_Exec (0x161340)->((null) 26 2 0x328534
(nil))
fixme:mshtml:OleControl_OnAmbientPropertyChange offline connection is not
supported
fixme:mshtml:OleObject_SetClientSite silent == true
fixme:shdocvw:ClientSite_GetContainer (0x161340)->(0x328570)
fixme:mshtml:set_moniker silent == true
fixme:mshtml:set_moniker offline == true
fixme:shdocvw:ClOleCommandTarget_Exec
(0x161340)->({000214d1-0000-0000-c000-000000000046} 37 0 0x3285fc (nil))
fixme:shdocvw:ClOleCommandTarget_Exec
(0x161340)->({000214d1-0000-0000-c000-000000000046} 84 0 (nil) 0x328624)
fixme:mshtml:PersistStreamInit_InitNew (0x2368da8)
fixme:shdocvw:OleObject_Close (0x1612a0)->(1)
fixme:mshtml:HlinkTarget_SetBrowseContext (0x2368da8)->((nil))
fixme:shdocvw:OleInPlaceObject_UIDeactivate (0x1612a0)
fixme:shdocvw:OleInPlaceObject_InPlaceDeactivate (0x1612a0)
fixme:shdocvw:PersistStreamInit_InitNew (0x2390238)
fixme:urlmon:URLMoniker_BindToObject use running object table
fixme:shdocvw:ClOleCommandTarget_QueryStatus (0x23902d8)->((null) 1 0x327858
(nil))
fixme:shdocvw:ClOleCommandTarget_Exec (0x23902d8)->((null) 25 2 0x32786c
(nil))
fixme:shdocvw:ClOleCommandTarget_Exec (0x23902d8)->((null) 26 2 0x32786c
(nil))
fixme:mshtml:OleControl_OnAmbientPropertyChange offline connection is not
supported
fixme:mshtml:OleObject_SetClientSite silent == true
fixme:shdocvw:ClientSite_GetContainer (0x23902d8)->(0x3278a8)
fixme:mshtml:set_moniker silent == true
fixme:mshtml:set_moniker offline == true
fixme:shdocvw:ClOleCommandTarget_Exec
(0x23902d8)->({000214d1-0000-0000-c000-000000000046} 37 0 0x327934 (nil))
fixme:shdocvw:ClOleCommandTarget_Exec
(0x23902d8)->({000214d1-0000-0000-c000-000000000046} 84 0 (nil) 0x32795c)
fixme:mshtml:PersistStreamInit_InitNew (0x2397cc0)
fixme:shdocvw:OleObject_Close (0x2390238)->(1)
fixme:mshtml:HlinkTarget_SetBrowseContext (0x2397cc0)->((nil))
fixme:shdocvw:OleInPlaceObject_UIDeactivate (0x2390238)
fixme:shdocvw:OleInPlaceObject_InPlaceDeactivate (0x2390238)
fixme:resource:GetGuiResources (0xffffffff,0): stub
fixme:exec:SHELL_execute flags ignored: 0x00000180

h2sammo wrote:
> no installation reaches completion.
Try wine-1.1.30, it has few installer bugs fixed.

have 1.1.30 installed now, same result.  is there anyone i could PM who has a
bit more experience with helping me?

thx

h2sammo wrote:
> have 1.1.30 installed now, same result.  is there anyone i could PM who has
a bit more experience with helping me?
>
> thx
>
>   
I would like a little more background on what is happening here.

You state that Wine is unable to build folders in your user .wine folder?

Did you EVER run Wine as root?  If you did, you messed up the
permissions to that folder and Wine, when run as a regular user will not
be able to create folders, ever.   The solution is to remove the .wine
folder and start over again.  This is one reason that we do not
recommend running Wine as root.

James McKenzie

so i should rm the .wine folder, uninstall wine, then reinstall wine?

thank you for reply.

h2sammo wrote:
> here is my bug post for future viewers:
> 
> 
> http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20357

When you work out if there is a demo that reproduces the problem and provide a
download link maybe someone will look at it.  Pasting that log certainly makes
it more annoying.