wine users - Mar 2011 - wine cannot find L "c:/windows/system32/plugplay.exe

I'm running Wine1.2.2 on Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid). In my file manager, I can get
to the /.wine/drive_c folder, so I know it exists in my file system. However,
when I open the Wine Configuration window (either via apps/wine/configuration or
via terminal (winecfg), on the Drives tab it shows
   C:      ../drive_c
   D:      /media UDISK
(and a few other drives).

However, the C drive 'browse' button is greyed out, so I cannot link
Wine to this drive, which in fact does appear in my file system

When I try to bring up the wine configure page or the ../drive_c file in
terminal I get the message: wine cannot find L
"C/windows/system/32/plugplay.exe"

What is wrong and how can I fix this problem? Thanks.

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 11:09 AM, bflojoe6 <wineforum-user at winehq.org>
wrote:
> I'm running Wine1.2.2 on Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid). In my file manager, I
can get to the /.wine/drive_c folder, so I know it exists in my file system.
> However, when I open the Wine Configuration window (either via
apps/wine/configuration or via terminal (winecfg), on the Drives tab it shows
> ? C: ? ? ?../drive_c
> ? D: ? ? ?/media UDISK
> (and a few other drives).
>
> However, the C drive 'browse' button is greyed out, so I cannot
link Wine to this drive, which in fact does appear in my file system.
And you should NOT be able to do this.  What are you actually trying
to do?  If you are trying to link in an existing Windows file system,
PLEASE do not do this.  One thing is it will break your ability to run
programs in Wine and the second is that this will break your existing
Windows installation in interesting ways, requiring a COMPLETE
reinstall of Windows.
>
> When I try to bring up the wine configure page or the ../drive_c file in
terminal I get the message: wine cannot find
> L "C/windows/system/32/plugplay.exe".
Is this really what it says or is the response what you entered as the
Title of the forum thread?

Back to my original question.  What is it that you are trying to do?
If you want to run programs out of your Windows directory, I will
advise against it for two reasons:
1.  Wine presently does fully implement NTFS file permissions.  This
can cause problems when you try to use files created under Wine in
Windows.
2.  Most programs, when installed, write information to the Windows
Directory.  Wine cannot use your Windows registry 'hive' and has one
of its own.  You will need to re-install each program you want to use
in Wine.  Wine is a Linux program and will use, for the moment, Linux
related file permissions.  It is much better to use a Linux partition
for your programs and a FAT32 partition for your program's data
elements so you can move them to a Windows partition if needed.

James McKenzie

Thanks for that important distinction. Good to know. Its an installation  issue
then To install an application I copied its .exe file (msmoney.exe) onto the
Ubuntu desktop, opened a Terminal, changed directory to desktop and then typed
wine msmoney.exe in terminal. Then I get the following message:  joseph at
joseph-laptop:~$ cd Desktop
joseph at joseph-laptop:~/Desktop$ wine msmoney.exe
wine: cannot find L"C:\\windows\\system32\\plugplay.exe"
fixme:actctx:parse_depend_manifests Could not find dependent assembly
L"Microsoft.VC80.CRT" (8.0.50608.0)
err:module:import_dll Library UTLSRF08.DLL (which is needed by
L"Z:\\home\\joseph\\Desktop\\msmoney.exe") not found
err:module:import_dll Library MNYSL08.dll (which is needed by
L"Z:\\home\\joseph\\Desktop\\msmoney.exe") not found
err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for
L"Z:\\home\\joseph\\Desktop\\msmoney.exe" failed, status c0000135
joseph at joseph-laptop:~/Desktop$ When I then add msmoney.exe through the wine
configuration page, click OK, it does not stay there when I re-open the config
page. The issue seems related to wine not finding
c/windows/system32/plugplay.exe.This .exe does not seem to be in the
Windows/system32 folder anywhere.Any suggestions?

I  have a dual boot setup w/XP & Ubuntu with the following partitions: 

Sda1   Windows    (NTFS);
Sda 5  Linux Ubuntu Swap;
Sda 6  Linux Ubuntu (Ext 3);   /
Sda 7  Linux Ubuntu home directory (Ext 3)  /home
Sda 2  unallocated

I did not assign wine to a drive or partition when I installed it. Is there a
way to correct this in a dual boot situation, using a disk partition utility or
within wine?  The Windows partition is not mounted in Ubuntu Disk Utility,
although its file system does appear as an option in the Places/Home Folder list
of drives (this allows me to access Windows files). The Wine File - [Z:\]
contains the following folders: .cache, bin, boot, cdrom, etc, home, lib,
lost+found, media, mnt, opt, root, sbin, selinux, srv, tmp, usr, var, and a few
files. These are Linux folders, are they not?

Regarding my file structure, if I go to Places/Home Folder/.wine I find two
folders; dos devices and drive c. Within dos devices folder there are
sub-folders c, d, e, y, and z. Within the c sub-folder under dos devices there
are 3 sub-folders; Program files, Users and Windows.  Within this Program Files
sub folder there are 3 sub-folders; Common Files, Internet Explorer and
Microsoft Money Plus. Within the separate drive c sub-folder under .wine there
are 3 sub-folders (Program Files, Users, Windows-the same folders that appear
under dos devices/c.

If I go to Applications/wine/Browse drive c I end up at /home/joseph/dos
devices/c (not the separate drive c folder in .wine. Is this a problem? Does
this reflect a problem w/wine configuration?

One last comment. I downloaded/installed a Windows based utility in wine: 
CCleaner and it worked perfectly!

bflojoe6 wrote:
> Folder[/u]/.wine I find two folders; dos devices and drive c.
Correct. There are few more files too in that directory.


bflojoe6 wrote:
>  Within dos devices folder there are sub-folders c, d, e, y, and z.
They are not directories, they are symlinks.


bflojoe6 wrote:
> If I go to Applications/wine/Browse drive c I end up at /home/joseph/dos
devices/c
Correct.


bflojoe6 wrote:
> I downloaded/installed a Windows based utility in wine: CCleaner and it
worked perfectly!
I would not recommend using any such utilities. They will damage Wine registry
and/or files, even if it looks like they worked fine.

I've tried running a variety of log outputs, with the following results:

joseph at joseph-laptop:~$ WINEDEBUG=fixme+relay wine msmoney.exe
wine: cannot find L"C:\\windows\\system32\\msmoney.exe"
joseph at joseph-laptop:~$ WINEDEBUG=err+relay wine msmoney.exe
wine: cannot find L"C:\\windows\\system32\\msmoney.exe"

Am I not correctly stating the Terminal commands?

It seems significant that when I go to Applications/Wine/Browse Drive C, wine
takes me to  "/home/joseph/.wine/dosdevices/c". And in drive c is a
Program Files folder and in there is Microsoft Money (dosdevices also includes
drives d, e, y and z - and drives z, d & e with a locked icon). The z drive
owner is 'root'

If I look in the .wine folder in the file browser there are two folders there:
dosdevices and a separate drive_c. Is Wine unable to find msmoney.exe because
there are these 2 folders in .wine (both of which contains the folder Program
Files, and which includes MM+? Thanks. I'll post the logging file once I can
run it.