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Itzamna
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 Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 9:00 am Post subject: Wine and /home partition woes on Gentoo/amd64 |
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I apologize if the question has been posed before, but I did not find any similar posts by browsing or searching through the forums. Here it goes:
I have been using Gentoo Linux for a year now, and never have I had a problem I couldn't solve. However, not long ago I bought a 1 TB hard disk which I divided into 7 partitions: /boot, (swap), /, /var, /tmp, /usr and /home (yes, that's FreeBSD influence right there). When I finished compilation of Wine, I found I could no longer install DirectX. Age of Empires III, Black & White II and Unreal Tournament III wouldn't install either - it wouldn't budge. These are the errors DXSetup produces:
(the console only displays a 'status 43' message, I don't even know what the hell that means)
I figure it has to have something to do with permissions, as somehow the program can't write to my /home partition. I fiddled around with /etc/fstab and octal permissions all day, to no avail. This is my current configuration:
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/dev/sda1 /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 1 2
/dev/sda2 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/sda4 / ext4 noatime 0 1
/dev/sda5 /var ext4 noatime 0 0
/dev/sda6 /tmp ext4 noatime 0 0
/dev/sda7 /usr ext4 noatime 0 0
/dev/sda8 /home ext4 noatime,users,rw,exec 0 0
/dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,ro 0 0
shm /dev/shm tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0
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As you can see, my /home partition and all its subdirectories have full drwxrwxrwx (777) permission. Also, my /home/${user} folder is owned by {user}:{user}.
Wine detects all partitions and drives perfectly:
My Wine version is 1.1.20 (the problem persists after downgrading to stable), my O/S is Gentoo 64-bit (on kernel 2.6.28-r5), I have compiled all emul-linux-x86 libraries, all partitions except for /boot are ext4.
Can anyone help me out? I'm going bald from stress here. Thanks in advance,
Itzamna
P.S.: I have done all the standard fix attempts, like deleting my ~/.wine folder, reemerging wine, installing a different wine version, ..., so please dream up a useful solution. |
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John Drescher
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| Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 9:27 am Post subject: Wine and /home partition woes on Gentoo/amd64 |
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| Quote: | I have been using Gentoo Linux for a year now,
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Since early 2004 here on 30 to 50 machines (real or virtual hw)
between home and work.
| Quote: | and never have I had a problem I couldn't solve. However, not long ago I bought a 1 TB hard disk which I divided into 7 partitions: /boot, (swap), /, /var, /tmp, /usr and /home (yes, that's FreeBSD influence right there). When I finished compilation of Wine, I found I could no longer install DirectX. Age of Empires III, Black & White II and Unreal Tournament III wouldn't install either - it wouldn't budge. These are the errors DXSetup produces:
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You should NEVER install DirectX under wine.
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Martin Gregorie
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| Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 9:32 am Post subject: Wine and /home partition woes on Gentoo/amd64 |
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On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 10:00 -0500, Itzamna wrote:
| Quote: | I figure it has to have something to do with permissions, as somehow
the program can't write to my /home partition. I fiddled around
with /etc/fstab and octal permissions all day, to no avail. This is my
current configuration:
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Actually, you haven't posted the permissions for /home, which of course
would be the output from 'ls -l /home', but its possible you've managed
to run out of room in a partition. The best way to see that is by
running:
df -h
FWIW Fedora distros run this as part of the overnight logwatch report -
I'd imagine Gentoo does something similar. If you don't want to login as
root every day to read the system mail messages you can redirect the,m
to your usual mail account. Add the redirect by editing /etc/aliases and
then run 'newaliases' to update the aliases database. 'man aliases'
describes the file format and how its used.
Martin |
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austin987
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| Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 9:37 am Post subject: Wine and /home partition woes on Gentoo/amd64 |
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On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 10:26 AM, John Drescher <drescherjm@gmail.com> wrote:
| Quote: | | Quote: | I have been using Gentoo Linux for a year now,
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Since early 2004 here on 30 to 50 machines (real or virtual hw)
between home and work.
| Quote: | and never have I had a problem I couldn't solve. However, not long ago I bought a 1 TB hard disk which I divided into 7 partitions: /boot, (swap), /, /var, /tmp, /usr and /home (yes, that's FreeBSD influence right there). When I finished compilation of Wine, I found I could no longer install DirectX. Age of Empires III, Black & White II and Unreal Tournament III wouldn't install either - it wouldn't budge. These are the errors DXSetup produces:
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You should NEVER install DirectX under wine.
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No...there are a few cases where it is needed, though d3dx9 is
preferred (from winetricks).
Where are you running the executable from? Is it one of the noexec partitions?
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Itzamna
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| Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 10:36 am Post subject: |
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Thanks for the swift replies.
This is the output of df -h:
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Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda4 510M 326M 158M 68% /
udev 10M 196K 9.9M 2% /dev
/dev/sda5 4.0G 240M 3.6G 7% /var
/dev/sda6 510M 19M 466M 4% /tmp
/dev/sda7 9.9G 6.6G 2.9G 70% /usr
/dev/sda8 895G 168G 682G 20% /home
shm 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sdb1 230G 162G 56G 75% /media/disk
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None of my partitions seem full, so no problems there. The permissions of my /home directory are all drwxrwxrwx or -rwxrwxrwx, I can't imagine that's the problem either. I don't want to mount /usr with the exec option, as that would be a huge security risk.
Is there anyone who has a clue? |
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Martin Gregorie
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| Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 11:15 am Post subject: Wine and /home partition woes on Gentoo/amd64 |
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On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 11:36 -0500, Itzamna wrote:
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None of my partitions seem full, so no problems there.
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| Quote: | The permissions of my /home directory are all drwxrwxrwx or
-rwxrwxrwx, I can't imagine that's the problem either.
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| Quote: | I don't want to mount /usr with the exec option, as that would be a
huge security risk.
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Well, considering that /usr contains just about all executables except
those that are needed at boot time you might want to reconsider that.
The standard places to look for executables are
/bin - programs used during the boot process
/sbin - privileged programs used during the boot process
/usr/bin - all programs in a distro's optional packages
and extras
/usr/sbin - all privileged programs in a distro's optional
packages and extras
/usr/local/bin } these are where all non-distro programs should go,
/usr/local/sbin } i.e binary downloads and locally compiled programs.
This rule is commonly ignored though its a sensible
distinction.
So, in general, the /usr partition *should* be exec rather than noexec.
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Itzamna
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| I have traced the problem to gnome-volume-manager and HAL. Somehow HAL can't play nice with /etc/fstab. When I have found the solution, I'll post it here. |
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Itzamna
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I have spent hours looking for a solution through fixing the Nautilus file access bug, but I ended up devising a workaround.
If, for example, I want to run Neverwinter Nights II in the ~/games/nwn2/ directory*, I simply copy the required DLLs into the directory and set the WINEPREFIX environment variable for that particular Wine session:
| Code: | | WINEPREFIX=~/games/nwn2/ wine nwn2.exe |
Of course, don't forget adding DLL overrides with the correct environment variable:
| Code: | | WINEPREFIX=~/games/nwn2/ winecfg |
Problem solved.  I hope this is of use to anyone.
* The tilde, ~, stands for the user's home directory: /home/${user}. ~/games/nwn2/ is the ${user}/games/nwn2 directory on the /home partition.
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austin987
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| Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2009 9:14 am Post subject: Wine and /home partition woes on Gentoo/amd64 |
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On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Itzamna <wineforum-user@winehq.org> wrote:
| Quote: | I have spent hours looking for a solution through fixing the Nautilus file access bug, but I ended up devising a workaround.
If, for example, I want to run Neverwinter Nights II in the ~/games/nwn2/ directory, I simply copy the required DLLs into the directory and set the WINEPREFIX environment variable for that particular Wine session:
Code:
WINEPREFIX=~/games/nwn2/ wine nwn2.exe
Of course, don't forget adding DLL overrides with the correct environment variable:
Code:
WINEPREFIX=~/games/nwn2/ winecfg
Problem solved. I hope this is of use to anyone.
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Where were they before? Is ~/games on a different partition?
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Itzamna
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| Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2009 9:52 am Post subject: Re: Wine and /home partition woes on Gentoo/amd64 |
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| austin987 wrote: | Where were they before? Is ~/games on a different partition?
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The tilde stands for my home directory: /home/${user}, so ~/games stands for /home/itzamna/games/. I don't know the exact mechanism by which this workaround operates, but I think it has something to do with GVFS (Gnome's virtual file system), as it has its own subset of permissions. I must say, my Gentoo box sure is secure! |
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austin987
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| Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2009 10:17 am Post subject: Wine and /home partition woes on Gentoo/amd64 |
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On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Itzamna <wineforum-user@winehq.org> wrote:
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austin987 wrote:
| Quote: | Where were they before? Is ~/games on a different partition?
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The tilde stands for my home directory: /home/{user}, so ~/games stands for /home/itzamna/games/.
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I'm aware. I wasn't sure if you had it symlinked elsewhere. If your
home directory is mounted exec, there shouldn't be any difference
between ~/games/foo and ~/.wine/.
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