Just got Wine 1.1.13 on Ubuntu 8.10 tried to map D: to my Windows partition /dev/sda5 /media/DATA but Wine wouldn't keep my choice and reverts to /media/cdrom0.
Found out that permissions for ~/.wine/dosdevices/d: were root only and couldn't change them. So I deleted d: & d:: and made new symbolic links
$ sudo rm -r /home/me/.wine/dosdevices/d*
$ ln -s /media/DATA /home/me/.wine/dosdevices/d:
$ ln -s /dev/sda5 /home/me/.wine/dosdevices/d::
which fixed my problem.
Is this a bug as I never had this problem before?
Drive Mapping Problem & solution
Drive Mapping Problem & solution
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 10:56 AM, samclam <[email protected]> wrote:
it? Former, okay, later, don't do it.
misconfiguration.
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-Austin
Why are you mounting that drive? To read data, or to run programs fromJust got Wine 1.1.13 on Ubuntu 8.10 tried to map D: to my Windows partition /dev/sda5 /media/DATA but Wine wouldn't keep my choice and reverts to /media/cdrom0.
it? Former, okay, later, don't do it.
Did you run wine as sudo/root?Found out that permissions for ~/.wine/dosdevices/d: were root only and couldn't change them. So I deleted d: & d:: and made new symbolic links
$5 says you've run wine as root/sudo, in which case, not a bug, but$ sudo rm -r /home/me/.wine/dosdevices/d*
$ ln -s /media/DATA /home/me/.wine/dosdevices/d:
$ ln -s /dev/sda5 /home/me/.wine/dosdevices/d::
which fixed my problem.
Is this a bug as I never had this problem before?
misconfiguration.
--
-Austin
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James McKenzie
Drive Mapping Problem & solution
samclam wrote:
root or an adminstrative user on Linux/UNIX. All sorts of badness can
and will happen.
Fix:
sudo rm -rf /home/me/.wine
Run wine notepad as me. This will recreate the .wine directory.
Install all applications that you want to install. There are known
issues with several programs and workarounds in the Applications
Database. Please take time to read through them.
If you run into a problem, such as a program crash, please explore the
Bugzilla for previous reports. If none are found for your situation,
then please submit one. If you do find an existing report, vote for
it. This lets the developers know which problem affects the most users
and if resources are available, a fix can be found.
Again, NEVER run Wine as root, it leads to problems.
James McKenzie
Austin was a much nicer than I'm going to be: Never, ever run Wine asJust got Wine 1.1.13 on Ubuntu 8.10 tried to map D: to my Windows partition /dev/sda5 /media/DATA but Wine wouldn't keep my choice and reverts to /media/cdrom0.
Found out that permissions for ~/.wine/dosdevices/d: were root only and couldn't change them. So I deleted d: & d:: and made new symbolic links
$ sudo rm -r /home/me/.wine/dosdevices/d*
$ ln -s /media/DATA /home/me/.wine/dosdevices/d:
$ ln -s /dev/sda5 /home/me/.wine/dosdevices/d::
root or an adminstrative user on Linux/UNIX. All sorts of badness can
and will happen.
Fix:
sudo rm -rf /home/me/.wine
Run wine notepad as me. This will recreate the .wine directory.
Install all applications that you want to install. There are known
issues with several programs and workarounds in the Applications
Database. Please take time to read through them.
If you run into a problem, such as a program crash, please explore the
Bugzilla for previous reports. If none are found for your situation,
then please submit one. If you do find an existing report, vote for
it. This lets the developers know which problem affects the most users
and if resources are available, a fix can be found.
Again, NEVER run Wine as root, it leads to problems.
James McKenzie
Drive Mapping Problem & solution
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:22 PM, James McKenzie
<[email protected]> wrote:
Rare circumstances require running as root, e.g., needing raw ICMP
permissions or other such issues often requires root permissions on
Unixish OSes. That said, it can be done with POSIX permissions, but
those aren't widespread yet, nor are they often needed for Wine.
The rule of thumb is, unless you know for certain that you need root
permission, you don't. That's why I tried to get a patch to refuse to
run as wine as root, or warn heavily, but AJ disagreed.
--
-Austin
<[email protected]> wrote:
That's not _exactly_ accurate.samclam wrote:Austin was a much nicer than I'm going to be: Never, ever run Wine asJust got Wine 1.1.13 on Ubuntu 8.10 tried to map D: to my Windows partition /dev/sda5 /media/DATA but Wine wouldn't keep my choice and reverts to /media/cdrom0.
Found out that permissions for ~/.wine/dosdevices/d: were root only and couldn't change them. So I deleted d: & d:: and made new symbolic links
$ sudo rm -r /home/me/.wine/dosdevices/d*
$ ln -s /media/DATA /home/me/.wine/dosdevices/d:
$ ln -s /dev/sda5 /home/me/.wine/dosdevices/d::
root or an adminstrative user on Linux/UNIX. All sorts of badness can
and will happen.
Fix:
sudo rm -rf /home/me/.wine
Run wine notepad as me. This will recreate the .wine directory.
Install all applications that you want to install. There are known
issues with several programs and workarounds in the Applications
Database. Please take time to read through them.
If you run into a problem, such as a program crash, please explore the
Bugzilla for previous reports. If none are found for your situation,
then please submit one. If you do find an existing report, vote for
it. This lets the developers know which problem affects the most users
and if resources are available, a fix can be found.
Again, NEVER run Wine as root, it leads to problems.
James McKenzie
Rare circumstances require running as root, e.g., needing raw ICMP
permissions or other such issues often requires root permissions on
Unixish OSes. That said, it can be done with POSIX permissions, but
those aren't widespread yet, nor are they often needed for Wine.
The rule of thumb is, unless you know for certain that you need root
permission, you don't. That's why I tried to get a patch to refuse to
run as wine as root, or warn heavily, but AJ disagreed.
--
-Austin
