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#1 2004-11-18 06:30:38

eedok
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My wine is broken

for some reason I can't get my wine working, I posted this at another forum but it's looking like this is an arch specific problem.

Well I've just recently been getting strange errors with wine whenever I have to use the file dialog to open/save as, the error I get when the dialog starts is

err:shell:SHGetFolderPathW Failed to create directory 'L"c:\windows\Desktop"'.
err:commdlg:IShellBrowserImpl_BrowseObject could not browse to folder

When I hit the toolbar at the top:

err:shell:SHGetFolderPathW Failed to create directory 'L"c:\windows\Desktop"'.

Then when I hit the cancel button:

wine: Unhandled exception (thread 0009), starting debugger...
Warning: the specified Windows directory L"c:\windows" is not accessible.
Warning: the specified System directory L"c:\windows\system" is not accessible.
Usage: winedbg [--auto] [--gdb] cmdline

Any ideas on what may be the problem(and possibly how to fix it)?

PS: ~/.wine/fake_windows/Desktop exists

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#2 2004-11-19 23:52:57

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Re: My wine is broken

PS: ~/.wine/fake_windows/Desktop exists

I believe, your error message means, that .wine/fake_windows/Windows/Desktop has to exist (as opposed to .wine/fake_windows/Desktop), because fake_windows just supplies your "C:".

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#3 2004-11-21 05:53:10

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Re: My wine is broken

ahh thanks for the responce, fixes the first error, but the other errors still exist(the combo box at the top is blank)

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#4 2004-11-21 17:33:30

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Re: My wine is broken

One (maybe silly) question:

If you didn't have .../fake_windows/Windows/Desktop, does at least your "Windows installation" exist in .../fake_windows/Windows ? This holds about 54 MB of files on my computer, and it should do this on yours as well.

Looking at your error messages, this looks more and more like your problem.

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#5 2004-11-23 05:59:12

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Re: My wine is broken

that it does here's a better detail of what it's doing now

$ wine Anim8or.exe 
Warning: the specified Windows directory L"c:\windows" is not accessible.
Warning: the specified System directory L"c:\windows\system" is not accessible.
Please use the registry key HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIGSoftwareFontsLogPixels
to set the screen resolution and remove the "Resolution" entry in the config file

then I go File>Open in the program

err:shell:SHGetFolderPathW Failed to create directory 'L"c:\windows\Desktop"'.
err:shell:SHGetFolderPathW Failed to create directory 'L"c:\windows\Desktop"'.
err:shell:SHGetFolderPathW Failed to create directory 'L"c:\windows\Desktop"'.
err:shell:SHGetFolderPathW Failed to create directory 'L"c:\windows\Desktop"'.
err:shell:SHGetFolderPathW Failed to create directory 'L"c:\windows\Desktop"'.
err:commdlg:IShellBrowserImpl_BrowseObject could not browse to folder

when I hit the toolbar at the top

err:shell:SHGetFolderPathW Failed to create directory 'L"c:\windows\Desktop"'.

and when I hit cancel:

wine: Unhandled exception (thread 0009), starting debugger...
Warning: the specified Windows directory L"c:\windows" is not accessible.
Warning: the specified System directory L"c:\windows\system" is not accessible.
Usage: winedbg [--auto] [--gdb] cmdline

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#6 2004-11-23 10:02:22

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Re: My wine is broken

I don't really recall, what I did when I installed my Wine (long time ago). What did you do to setup Wine?

Something like "pacman -S wine", editing the wine config file, installing "Windows" in your fake windows directory?

To me it seems, like your fake Windows installation is missing or not complete. You need quite a few files in ~/.wine/fake_windows/Windows/ and I am not sure, whether they come with Wine or whether you have to install them yourself from the Windows CD.

Can you summarize the contents of your ~/.wine/fake_windows/Windows directory? For me, Wine works pretty good, MS Office is running etc., so we should be able to get it running for you as well.

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#7 2004-11-26 17:26:03

eedok
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Re: My wine is broken

[cody@hiscomputer windows]$ ls
Cookies  Profiles                  notepad.exe   system.ini       winhlp32.exe
Desktop  Start Menu                regedit.exe   uninstall.exe
Fonts    Temporary Internet Files  rundll32.exe  winebrowser.exe
History  command                   system        winhelp.exe

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#8 2004-12-09 22:10:49

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Re: My wine is broken

Hmm, mine looks a bit different, but I cannot tell you, whether this has to be:

[23:09 frank: ~/.wine/fake_windows/Windows]$ ls
Active Setup Log.BAK  Favorites      MSDFMAP.INI   SendTo                    dresd01.ini   profiles      ~VS7bb0.tmp
Active Setup Log.txt  Fonts          Media         ShellNew                  extract.exe   system.ini
Application Data      GPInstall.exe  NetHood       Start Menu                generic.ppd   unin0407.exe
Cookies               History        ODBC.INI      System                    iextract.exe  web
Cursors               Installer      ODBCINST.INI  TEMP                      inf           welc.exe
Desktop               IsUn0407.exe   PrintHood     Temporary Internet Files  isk3ro.exe    win.ini
Deutsch_DE.gpl        IsUninst.exe   Recent        WinInit.Ini               msdownld.tmp  ~VS3156.tmp

As I just upgraded Wine, there was a message saying:

pacman -S wine wrote:

>>> As of kernel 2.6.9, WINE will not work unless you enable the Legacy
>>> VM Layout.  You can do this like so:
>>>
>>> # echo "vm.legacy_va_layout = 1" >>/etc/sysctl.conf
>>> # sysctl -p

Is this maybe your problem? Strangely, WINE does work for me, even when I do not have this in /etc/sysctl.conf.

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