Tried to create a window, no driver could be loaded (998)

Carbiens · Post by **Carbiens** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 10:04 am

Hi,

This could be a configuration problem as i am trying to run this on my office machine and i have not checked its hardware profile or drivers. Also im fairly new to all this but i know my way around for the most part.

My destro: Fedora 8
WINE version: 0.9.56

Done a yum install for wine today, ran without any errors. afterwards went to Applications>Wine>winehelp and nothing seemed to happen. I should note that none of the launchers have icons after >Wine (dont know if thats normal or not).I also tried Wine Configuration and the uninstaller.
I then tried to run ie6setup.exe (internet explorer) using wine taken from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/than ... layLang=en
Same result, nothing seemed to happen.

From my terminal i ran the following:

[root@me Desktop]# cd /home/me/Desktop/
[root@me Desktop]# ll
total 496
-rw-r--r-- 1 me mygroup 491768 2008-03-20 14:49 ie6setup.exe
drwxr-xr-x 7 501 501 4096 2007-11-26 06:28 ies4linux-2.99.0.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 me mygroup 197 2008-03-13 16:35 OpenOffice.desktop
[root@me Desktop]# wine ie6setup.exe
fixme:advapi:CheckTokenMembership ((nil) 0x11d9c8 0x32fd78) stub!
fixme:advapi:DecryptFileA "C:\\windows\\temp\\IXP000.TMP\\" 00000000
Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded.
Unknown error (998).
Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded.
Unknown error (998).
err:ole:apartment_createwindowifneeded CreateWindow failed with error 0
fixme:cursor:CURSORICON_LoadFromFile No support for .ani cursors.
fixme:advpack:set_ldids Need to support changing paths - default will be used
fixme:advpack:set_ldids Need to support changing paths - default will be used
fixme:advpack:NeedReboot (0): stub
[root@me Desktop]#

I should note that i have done a yum update on wine.

Apologies if this is a little vague, please let me know if there is any more information i can get to make it more clear.

Cheers
Brian

Carbiens · Post by **Carbiens** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 10:13 am

To add, when in the /root/.wine/drive_c/windows directory and trying to run explorer or notepad the same 988 error is displayed:

Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded.
Unknown error (998).

Dan Kegel · Post by **Dan Kegel** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 10:34 am

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 8:04 AM, Carbiens <[email protected]> wrote:

[root@me Desktop]# wine ie6setup.exe

Never run wine as root.

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 11:13 am

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 10:04 AM, Carbiens <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi,

This could be a configuration problem as i am trying to run this on my office machine and i have not checked its hardware profile or drivers. Also im fairly new to all this but i know my way around for the most part.

My detro: Fedora 8
WINE version: 0.9.56

Done a yum install for wine today, ran without any errors. afterwards went to Applications>Wine>winehelp and nothing seemed to happen. I should note that none of the launchers have icons after >Wine (dont know if thats normal or not).
I then tried to run ie6setup.exe (internet explorer) using wine taken from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/than ... layLang=en
Same result, nothing seemed to happen.

From my terminal i ran the following:

[root@me Desktop]# cd /home/me/Desktop/
[root@me Desktop]# ll
total 496
-rw-r--r-- 1 me mygroup 491768 2008-03-20 14:49 ie6setup.exe
drwxr-xr-x 7 501 501 4096 2007-11-26 06:28 ies4linux-2.99.0.1

Why are you installing ie6? Wine has its own implementation of ie for
rendering. If it is to test web design, then use ies4linux, but wine
doesn't support it.

Hugo Cardozo · Post by **Hugo Cardozo** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 11:25 am

From my terminal i ran the following:

[root@me Desktop]# cd /home/me/Desktop/
[root@me Desktop]# ll
total 496
-rw-r--r-- 1 me mygroup 491768 2008-03-20 14:49 ie6setup.exe
drwxr-xr-x 7 501 501 4096 2007-11-26 06:28 ies4linux-2.99.0.1

The folks here say it a lot, but I can repeat it anyway

:

DON'T RUN WINE AS ROOT! NEVER!

You could destroy your entire system running unknown software as root!

Hugo S.

Carbiens · Post by **Carbiens** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 11:25 am

I was using IE because it was the first .exe application that popped into my head to be honest

I have tried using WINE to open mIRC now with the same error

Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded.
Unknown error (998).
err:ole:apartment_createwindowifneeded CreateWindow failed with error 998
[me@me Desktop]$ Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded.
Unknown error (998).
err:ole:apartment_createwindowifneeded CreateWindow failed with error 998
fixme:advapi:CheckTokenMembership ((nil) 0x13a0c0 0x34fb58) stub!
fixme

DllCanUnloadNow stub
Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded.
Unknown error (998).
err:ole:apartment_createwindowifneeded CreateWindow failed with error 998
fixme

DllCanUnloadNow stub
err:menubuilder:WinMain failed to build menu item for C:\windows\temp\Windows.lnk

Im just trying it out at work at the moment with a machine im not too familiar with, ill try again from home on my own machine and see if I have better luck.

Thanks for the input.

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 1:10 pm

Carbiens wrote:I was using IE because it was the first .exe application that popped into my head to be honest

I have tried using WINE to open mIRC now with the same error

Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded.
Unknown error (998).
err:ole:apartment_createwindowifneeded CreateWindow failed with error 998
[me@me Desktop]$ Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded.
Unknown error (998).
err:ole:apartment_createwindowifneeded CreateWindow failed with error 998
fixme:advapi:CheckTokenMembership ((nil) 0x13a0c0 0x34fb58) stub!
fixmeDllCanUnloadNow stub
Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded.
Unknown error (998).
err:ole:apartment_createwindowifneeded CreateWindow failed with error 998
fixmeDllCanUnloadNow stub
err:menubuilder:WinMain failed to build menu item for C:\windows\temp\Windows.lnk

Im just trying it out at work at the moment with a machine im not too familiar with, ill try again from home on my own machine and see if I have better luck.

Thanks for the input.

How did you logged in to that machine? Are you running Xserver (GUI) right now? Are you using xterm to run that command or the pure text terminal? What does "echo $DISPLAY" say? Have you removed ~/.wine directory since it was contaminated by root?

Carbiens · Post by **Carbiens** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 4:33 am

vitamin wrote: How did you logged in to that machine? Are you running Xserver (GUI) right now? Are you using xterm to run that command or the pure text terminal? What does "echo $DISPLAY" say? Have you removed ~/.wine directory since it was contaminated by root?

Im running Gnome 2.20.3 as my GUI and its Gnome terminal emulator (Terminal 2.18.4) as my terminal.

echo $DISPLAY returns:
:0.0

I'm not familiar with this command though so im not sure where i should have run it from. that output is just from /home/user/Desktop

I have completely removed the wine directory and then re-installed, WINE is still completely non-responsive.

The bug report http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emu ... bugs/97415 seems to describe my problem accurately.

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 11:12 am

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 5:15 AM, Carbiens <[email protected]> wrote:

****This is an edited version of a previous post****

Hi,

This could be a configuration problem as i am trying to run this on my office machine and i have not checked its hardware profile or drivers. Also im fairly new to all this but i know my way around for the most part.

My destro: Fedora 8
WINE version: 0.9.56

Done a yum install for wine today, ran without any errors. afterwards went to Applications>Wine>winehelp and nothing seemed to happen. I should note that none of the launchers have icons after >Wine (dont know if thats normal or not).I also tried Wine Configuration and the uninstaller.
I then tried to run ie6setup.exe (internet explorer) using wine taken from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/than ... layLang=en

Why are you trying to install ie6? Mozilla gecko is already downloaded
when IE is needed, and getting Microsoft's IE to run takes quite a bit
of tweaking.

Same result, nothing seemed to happen.

From my terminal i ran the following:

[root@me Desktop]# cd /home/me/Desktop/
[root@me Desktop]# ll

Don't run wine as root.
Don't run wine as root.
Don't run wine as root.

To clear up the root mess:
$ sudo rm ~/.wine

Then reinstall your needed apps. Are you trying to test it wine works?
If so, do:
$ wine notepad

And you should get a small notepad window.