Whenever I try to open anything that has to do with wine (winecfg, run an exe with wine, uninstall wine programs,...) by using the GUI menu, I get the error "The program wineboot.exe has encountered a serious problem and needs to close.". So I tried using the terminal, which gives me the same error. But with su-privileges, I can get everything working: I can run winecfg, run wine *.exe,... Accessing everything by the terminal takes some time tho, so it would be handy if I get it to work in the GUI or without su-privileges as well. Can anyone help me solving this problem? :)
On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 2:39 PM, Denpos <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:> Whenever I try to open anything that has to do with wine (winecfg, run an exe with wine, uninstall wine programs,...) by using the GUI menu, I get the error "The program wineboot.exe has encountered a serious problem and needs to close.". > > So I tried using the terminal, which gives me the same error. > > But with su-privileges, I can get everything working: I can run winecfg, run wine *.exe,... >Do not do that. Using su, sudo or root is most likely the reason for your problem. The first time you issued su you trashed the permissions on your wine folder preventing it from working as your normal user. John
Denpos <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:> >Whenever I try to open anything that has to do with wine (winecfg, run an exe with wine, uninstall wine programs,...) by >using the GUI menu, I get the error "The program wineboot.exe has encountered a serious problem and needs to close.". > >So I tried using the terminal, which gives me the same error. > >But with su-privileges, I can get everything working: I can run winecfg, run wine *.exe,... >You broke Wine's pseudo-Windows directory by using root to run Wine (that is what su and sudo do.) You might be able to recover by doing the following: Change to your user's home directory: cd and issue the command to change the file owner AND group by using the change owner command: chown -R <user name>:<user group> .wine If this does not work then you will have to delete the .wine directory and start over. BTW, WHY are you running Wine as root? James McKenzie