Wine has stopped working

ezacharyk · Post by **ezacharyk** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 7:06 am

Alright. I had Ubuntu 7.10 with wine .9 something or other. I installed Warcraft 2, Neverwinter Nights, Baldur's Gate 1 and 2 all just fine.

I then decided I wanted to install Flash CS3 so I was following these instructions as best I could:

http://wine-review.blogspot.com/2008/03 ... ng-in.html

Once this failed, I decided to upgrade wine to the 1.0 version for my version of Ubuntu. After following the guide and upgrading, Wine no longer works.

When clicking the Configure wine option, nothing happens. None of my games run anymore. When I click on .exe files and say to run in wine, nothing happens.

I have upgraded Ubuntu to 8.04 and have uninstalled and reinstalled the latest version of Wine and it still does not work.

How do I fix this?

Forester · Post by **Forester** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 5:10 pm

Hi,

Question 1

Deleted you installed Warcraft2 etc under an old version of Wine under Ubuntu 7.10. These were installed under ~/.wine. You had a go at installing Flash CS3 there too. When this failed, where you still able to run your games ?

Question 2

You have since upgraded Wine and Ubuntu and then Wine again. What, if anything have you done with your .wine directory ?

Often, in these situations, folks are advised to delete their .wine directory and reinstall everything.

Suggestion 1

Rename .wine to .wine.bad or something. Start Wine. If it looks okay, then try installing one of your old games (pick one that the AppDB claims works well with the version of Wine you are using).

If that works, then you probably had best delete your old .wine directory and reinstall everything. You may want to copy data files out of the old .wine into the new .wine, if ego and noddle permit.

Suggestion 2

Make a backup copy of your .wine directory before you try to install Flash CS3 again or follow any instructions "as best you can".

Gert van den Berg · Post by **Gert van den Berg** » Wed Sep 24, 2008 5:53 am

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 12:10 AM, Forester <[email protected]> wrote:

Suggestion 1

Rename .wine to .wine.bad or something. Start Wine. If it looks okay, then try installing one of your old games (pick one that the AppDB claims works well with the version of Wine you are using).

If that works, then you probably had best delete your old .wine directory and reinstall everything. You may want to copy data files out of the old .wine into the new .wine, if ego and noddle permit.

This time it is probably a good idea to read up about the WINEPREFIX
variable, that's main purpose seem to be to allow you to break a lot
less programs if you mess up...

See
http://wiki.jswindle.com/index.php/Wine_Prefixes

Suggestion 2

Make a backup copy of your .wine directory before you try to install Flash CS3 again or follow any instructions "as best you can".

Or install into a separate WINEPREFIX (Remember to use
WINEPREFIX=~/.wine-whatever before all Wine commands, including
winecfg, etc... (unless you are using the export option...))

ezacharyk · Post by **ezacharyk** » Wed Sep 24, 2008 6:30 am

Forester wrote:Hi,

Question 1

Deleted you installed Warcraft2 etc under an old version of Wine under Ubuntu 7.10. These were installed under ~/.wine. You had a go at installing Flash CS3 there too. When this failed, where you still able to run your games ?

No. None of my games worked anymore. Nothing would start. Not the configure wine or uninstall wine apps.

Forester wrote: Question 2

You have since upgraded Wine and Ubuntu and then Wine again. What, if anything have you done with your .wine directory ?

I didn't do anything to the .wine directory.

Forester wrote: Often, in these situations, folks are advised to delete their .wine directory and reinstall everything.

Suggestion 1

Rename .wine to .wine.bad or something. Start Wine. If it looks okay, then try installing one of your old games (pick one that the AppDB claims works well with the version of Wine you are using).

If that works, then you probably had best delete your old .wine directory and reinstall everything. You may want to copy data files out of the old .wine into the new .wine, if ego and noddle permit.

Suggestion 2

Make a backup copy of your .wine directory before you try to install Flash CS3 again or follow any instructions "as best you can".

Now, I tried renaming the .wine directory, but the wine option in my application list still shows all the games I installed. Even after uninstalling wine and deleting the directory, the games still show up under that app list. Is that supposed to happen? Am I deleting the wrong .wine folder? The one I deleted was in my /home folder. That is the only one I could find.

Post by **dimesio** » Wed Sep 24, 2008 6:50 am

ezacharyk wrote: Now, I tried renaming the .wine directory, but the wine option in my application list still shows all the games I installed. Even after uninstalling wine and deleting the directory, the games still show up under that app list. Is that supposed to happen? Am I deleting the wrong .wine folder? The one I deleted was in my /home folder. That is the only one I could find.

Deleting ~/.wine does not remove entries from your menu. Follow the directions here: http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-9893ae5 ... af2e69b391

ezacharyk · Post by **ezacharyk** » Wed Sep 24, 2008 5:49 pm

Thanks for all the help guys. Wine is working now.

I will wait until I know a little more about Wine before I install Flash CS3.