Can't find a solution to this Steam problem

[bb_buster]

Right first off hello, first time posting here, so hey
Anyway yeah Im having a problem with steam installing.
I'm running an aspire one, Ive followed the instructions on the page to install steam and after installing it would update i could play half-life and then close steam and found that it had never installed the files on the machine, i looked everywhere, in the wine folder in all the system folders all my documents, couldn't find it

then i noticed on the webpage that it said that theres a problem with ntfs partitioned drives and that the only two solutions were to install it to a native drive or update the kernel, i updated the kernel but still when i try and install it no files are every created on the machine.

this is what I get when installing it using wine msiexec -i SteamInstall.msi

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fixme:advapi:LookupAccountNameW (null) L"root" (nil) 0x32f7fc (nil) 0x32f800 0x32f7f4 - stub
fixme:advapi:LookupAccountNameW (null) L"root" 0x12d150 0x32f7fc 0x129430 0x32f800 0x32f7f4 - stub
fixme:msi:ACTION_HandleStandardAction unhandled standard action L"SetODBCFolders"
fixme:msi:msi_unimplemented_action_stub RemoveRegistryValues -> 2 ignored L"RemoveRegistry" table values
fixme:msi:msi_unimplemented_action_stub RemoveShortcuts -> 3 ignored L"Shortcut" table values
fixme:shell:DllCanUnloadNow stub
Error: Failed to get common program folder
fixme:msi:msi_unimplemented_action_stub RemoveFolders -> 1 ignored L"CreateFolder" table values
fixme:msi:ITERATE_CreateShortcuts poorly handled shortcut format, advertised shortcut
fixme:msi:ITERATE_CreateShortcuts poorly handled shortcut format, advertised shortcut
fixme:msi:ITERATE_CreateShortcuts poorly handled shortcut format, advertised shortcut
fixme:shell:DllCanUnloadNow stub
fixme:shell:DllCanUnloadNow stub
fixme:shell:DllCanUnloadNow stub
fixme:shell:DllCanUnloadNow stub
[root@localhost Downloads]# wine msiexec -i SteamInstall.msi
fixme:advapi:LookupAccountNameW (null) L"root" (nil) 0x32f7fc (nil) 0x32f800 0x32f7f4 - stub
fixme:advapi:LookupAccountNameW (null) L"root" 0x12d150 0x32f7fc 0x129430 0x32f800 0x32f7f4 - stub
fixme:msi:ControlEvent_SpawnWaitDialog Doing Nothing
fixme:msi:ACTION_HandleStandardAction unhandled standard action L"SetODBCFolders"
fixme:msi:msi_unimplemented_action_stub RemoveRegistryValues -> 2 ignored L"RemoveRegistry" table values
fixme:msi:msi_unimplemented_action_stub RemoveShortcuts -> 3 ignored L"Shortcut" table values
fixme:msi:msi_unimplemented_action_stub RemoveFolders -> 1 ignored L"CreateFolder" table values
fixme:msi:ITERATE_CreateShortcuts poorly handled shortcut format, advertised shortcut
fixme:msi:ITERATE_CreateShortcuts poorly handled shortcut format, advertised shortcut
fixme:msi:ITERATE_CreateShortcuts poorly handled shortcut format, advertised shortcut
fixme:shell:DllCanUnloadNow stub
fixme:shell:DllCanUnloadNow stub
fixme:shell:DllCanUnloadNow stub
fixme:shell:DllCanUnloadNow stub
fixme:advapi:SetEntriesInAclA 1 0x33fe68 (nil) 0x33fe60
fixme:advapi:SetNamedSecurityInfoW L"C:\\Program Files" 1 4 (nil) (nil) (nil) (nil)
fixme:advapi:SetEntriesInAclA 1 0x33fe68 (nil) 0x33fe60
fixme:advapi:SetNamedSecurityInfoW L"MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Valve\\Steam" 4 4 (nil) (nil) (nil) (nil)

Any help would be much appreciated, thanks

[vitamin]

then i noticed on the webpage that it said that theres a problem with ntfs partitioned drives and that the only two solutions were to install it to a native drive or update the kernel, i updated the kernel but still when i try and install it no files are every created on the machine.

this is what I get when installing it using wine msiexec -i SteamInstall.msi

What all have you changed from the Wine default config?
Why are you using ntfs partition? How are you specifying to install on your ntfs partition? Where are you looking for those files?

[bb_buster]

as far as i know i haven't changed any part of he wine config, I installed it using the package manager and about using an ntfs partition I've not changed it since I've got the aspire one, is there a way to get wine make the c drive into a formatted one FAT?
as for the las question i have been using both the wine file program and looked in the directory it should have saved in, and also in the .wine folder and the documents

[dimesio]

as far as i know i haven't changed any part of he wine config, I installed it using the package manager and about using an ntfs partition I've not changed it since I've got the aspire one, is there a way to get wine make the c drive into a formatted one FAT?
as for the las question i have been using both the wine file program and looked in the directory it should have saved in, and also in the .wine folder and the documents

Wine cannot format a partition for you, and even if it could, I don't think you'd want to do that because it would wipe out everything on that partition.

What distro are you using, and is this a dual boot system? Wine by default installs apps to the user's home directory, which should be a native Linux filesystem (usually ext3, but there are others). If you are having problems installing because the partition is ntfs, that means you either changed Wine's default drive_c to point to a different partition, or you somehow installed Linux to an ntfs partition (which I'm not sure is even possible, but it's the only other thing I can think of).

[Gert van den Berg]

On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 10:05 AM, bb_buster <[email protected]> wrote:

as far as i know i haven't changed any part of he wine config, I installed it using the package manager and about using an ntfs partition I've not changed it since I've got the aspire one, is there a way to get wine make the c drive into a formatted one FAT?
as for the las question i have been using both the wine file program and looked in the directory it should have saved in, and also in the .wine folder and the documents

Paste the output of 'mount -v' and 'cat /proc/mounts' to verify the
partition filesystems.... (NTFS should show up as fuse-something /
ntfs / ntfs-3g...)

[bb_buster]

What distro are you using, and is this a dual boot system? Wine by default installs apps to the user's home directory, which should be a native Linux filesystem (usually ext3, but there are others). If you are having problems installing because the partition is ntfs, that means you either changed Wine's default drive_c to point to a different partition, or you somehow installed Linux to an ntfs partition (which I'm not sure is even possible, but it's the only other thing I can think of).

I'm running the default version of linux on the aspire one, the Linpus distro. so i had nothing to do with installing that

Paste the output of 'mount -v' and 'cat /proc/mounts' to verify the
partition filesystems.... (NTFS should show up as fuse-something /
ntfs / ntfs-3g...)

with mount -v i get:

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[root@localhost home]# mount -v
/dev/sda1 on / type ext2 (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
none on /sys type sysfs (rw)
none on /mnt/home type aufs (rw,si=f3e5a9c0,xino=/home/user/.aufs.xino,create=mfs,dirs=/home/user=rw)

but with cat/proc/mounts it tells me theres no such file or folder

[vitamin]

What distro are you using, and is this a dual boot system? Wine by default installs apps to the user's home directory, which should be a native Linux filesystem (usually ext3, but there are others). If you are having problems installing because the partition is ntfs, that means you either changed Wine's default drive_c to point to a different partition, or you somehow installed Linux to an ntfs partition (which I'm not sure is even possible, but it's the only other thing I can think of).

I'm running the default version of linux on the aspire one, the Linpus distro. so i had nothing to do with installing that

Paste the output of 'mount -v' and 'cat /proc/mounts' to verify the
partition filesystems.... (NTFS should show up as fuse-something /
ntfs / ntfs-3g...)

with mount -v i get:

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[root@localhost home]# mount -v
/dev/sda1 on / type ext2 (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
none on /sys type sysfs (rw)
none on /mnt/home type aufs (rw,si=f3e5a9c0,xino=/home/user/.aufs.xino,create=mfs,dirs=/home/user=rw)

So where is your ntfs?

but with cat/proc/mounts it tells me theres no such file or folder

It's "cat /proc/mounts" note the space after "cat".

[bb_buster]

right okay
with the cat /proc/mounts i get:

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rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
/dev/root.old /initrd ext2 rw 0 0
/dev/root / ext2 rw,noatime 0 0
proc /proc proc rw 0 0
tmpfs /dev tmpfs rw 0 0
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs rw 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
none /sys sysfs rw 0 0
none /mnt/home aufs rw,si=f3e5a9c0,xino=/home/user/.aufs.xino,create=mfs,dirs=/home/user=rw 0 0

and im not sure if it is ntfs but when using wine file it would say something like 'C: - ntfs' for the root of the c drive, so i just assumed it was ntfs.

[vitamin]

right okay
with the cat /proc/mounts i get:

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rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
/dev/root.old /initrd ext2 rw 0 0
/dev/root / ext2 rw,noatime 0 0
proc /proc proc rw 0 0
tmpfs /dev tmpfs rw 0 0
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs rw 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
none /sys sysfs rw 0 0
none /mnt/home aufs rw,si=f3e5a9c0,xino=/home/user/.aufs.xino,create=mfs,dirs=/home/user=rw 0 0

and im not sure if it is ntfs but when using wine file it would say something like 'C: - ntfs' for the root of the c drive, so i just assumed it was ntfs.

Still don't see any NTFS mounts. The only one you have is / (root) which is ext2 file system.

So you seeing "NTFS" in Wine? Of course you would, Wine does return NTFS file system type for hard drive disks. Which doesn't mean it's a real NTFS partition.

Can you repeat again. What is the problem? I still don't understand. You sure you running Wine as regular user EVERY TIME? And NEVER as root? Where did you look for "installed files"?

[bb_buster]

fixed

thanks for all you help, i was originally installing as root, but installed it as user using

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wine start SteamInstall.msi

then it completed the update and its works so thanks for all help

[IneedAname]

On Thu, 27 Nov 2008 20:06:56 -0600
"bb_buster" <[email protected]> wrote:

fixme:advapi:LookupAccountNameW (null) L"root" (nil) 0x32f7fc (nil) 0x32f800 0x32f7f4 - stub
fixme:advapi:LookupAccountNameW (null) L"root" 0x12d150 0x32f7fc 0x129430 0x32f800 0x32f7f4 - stub

Are you running wine as root ? If so do not and read http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-96bebfa ... 78b0d41014