wine users - May 2011 - Unable to open executable with Program Loader since upgrade

Since ugprading today to a fresh install of Xubuntu 11.04 I am unable to open
.exe's through Thunar my file manager with 'WINE Program Loader'

Wine 1.2.2.

When I try to i receive the error: 

> The file '/media/DUMP/Downloads/anything.exe' is not marked as
executable.  If this was downloaded or copied from an untrusted source, it may
be dangerous to run. For more details, read about the executable bit.

When I check the permissions tab of properties there is no option to make it
executable as per screenshot.

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Also using chmod +x doesn't change anything but I am able to open .exe using
WINE in the terminal but I would rather I did not have to do this every time I
use WINE.

Is there something I can do?

P.S. I have no intention of using mIRC, it was just a small windows installer I
downloaded for testing.

Looks like xubuntu's gui is a bit oversimplified, and is missing that
checkbox.

You can use chmod +x from the commandline.

See http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=110&t=54204&start=0
for someone that had the same problem.

EDIT: when I chmod +x on the file on my home partition I can open it, but when I
try the same on my media partition it does not help at all.

Can I make it so it will work on any partition, and can I make it so I do not
need to manually chmod +x every time?

Either your partition has filesystem that does not support right premissions or
is not compatible with wine or you have mounted the filesystem without a
executable bit (see fstab)

Cloudef wrote:
> Either your partition has filesystem that does not support right
premissions or is not compatible with wine or you have mounted the filesystem
without a executable bit (see fstab)

[quote="jjmckenzie"]On 5/11/11 4:04 PM, dusf wrote:
> EDIT: when I chmod +x on the file on my home partition I can open it, but
when I try the same on my media partition it does not help at all.
> 
It appears that you are trying to run programs from CD/DVD/USB media.  
These normally do NOT have the execute bit set but are mounted read-only.
> Can I make it so it will work on any partition, and can I make it so I do
not need to manually chmod +x every time?
> 
> 
> 
You will need to modify, as per cloudef's instructions, the fstab file 
so that cdrom media open with the execute bit set for your user.  Google 
is your friend or ask on your distribution's forums.[quote]

Firstly, sorry for the late reply, I have been unable to access the Internet.

I am not trying to run programs from CD/DVD/USB media, only from my ext4 /home
partition AND from another NTFS partition used for storage on the same SATA hard
disk drive. Do I still need to do something with fstab, and why was this never
necessary before?

To reiterate, for a long time I have used WINE on Ubuntu with relatively few
problems up as far as my upgrade to 11.04 of last week or so when I decided I
wanted instead to try Xubuntu 11.04.

To test WINE was working okay on the new install I quickly downloaded mIRC, a
lightweight program with an installer I never intended to use for anything other
than testing purposes. Whether I download the setup.exe to /home or /media/DUMP/
(hard disk drive - separate partition - same hard disk as /home), I receive the
same error.

chmod +x on the /home/Downloads/setup.exe does allow me to open the file
normally, but doing so when downloaded to /media/DUMP/Downloads/setup.exe does
not.

I have since tried other Windows problems and received the same error.

I never had any similar problems in the past, so I know this is not supposed to
happen and should and does not happen for most.

How can I make the problem not only stop on /media/DUMP/ partition, but also on
/home, because I do not see having to chmod +x every single Windows program I
download as a fix, and it is not something I had to do before.

If relevant on installing Xubuntu 11.04 I formatted the home partition and used
the same username, but chose a different computer name. I also using wine from
your repos.

For some reason when installing Windows software Xubuntu is not populating the
nice Main menu >> Wine >> Programs menu as it did before so I am
going to reinstall.

Please advise.

dusf at banshee:~$ apt-cache search wine
gnome-colors - set of GNOME icon themes
gnome-exe-thumbnailer - Wine .exe and other executable thumbnailer for Gnome
gnome-wine-icon-theme - red variation of the GNOME-Colors icon theme
q4wine - Qt4 GUI for wine (W.I.N.E)
shiki-colors - set of Metacity/GTK-2+ themes
shiki-wine-theme - red variation of the Shiki-Colors theme
tellico - collection manager for books, videos, music
tellico-data - collection manager for books, videos, music [data]
tellico-scripts - collection manager for books, videos, music [scripts]
ttf-symbol-replacement - Free font with the same metrics as Symbol
unmass - Extract game archive files
wine - Microsoft Windows Compatibility Layer (meta package)
wine1.2 - Microsoft Windows Compatibility Layer (Binary Emulator and Library)
wine1.2-dbg - Microsoft Windows Compatibility Layer (debugging symbols)
wine1.2-dev - Microsoft Windows Compatibility Layer (Development files)
winefish - LaTeX Editor based on Bluefish
playonlinux - front-end for Wine
pptview - view PowerPoint presentations
wine-gecko - Microsoft Windows Compatibility Layer (dummy package)
wine1.0 - Microsoft Windows Compatibility Layer (Binary Emulator and Library)
wine1.0-dev - Microsoft Windows Compatibility Layer (Development files)
wine1.0-gecko - Microsoft Windows Compatibility Layer (Web Browser)
wine1.2-gecko - Microsoft Windows Compatibility Layer (Web Browser)
libkwineffects1a - library used by effects for the KDE window manager
winetricks - Microsoft Windows Compatibility Layer (winetricks)
ttf-symbol-replacement-wine1.3 - Free font with the same metrics as Symbol
wine1.3-dev - Microsoft Windows Compatibility Layer (Development files)
wine1.3 - Microsoft Windows Compatibility Layer (Binary Emulator and Library)
wine1.3-dbg - Microsoft Windows Compatibility Layer (debugging symbols)
wine1.3-gecko - Microsoft Windows Compatibility Layer (Web Browser)
wisotool - Microsoft Windows Compatibility Layer (wisotool transition dummy)

Reinstall fixed nothing, still receiving the error every time I try to open an
executable.

Is anyone else using Xubuntu?

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