Wineboot

[lmalhoit]

I keep getting prompted by wine that I need to reboot every time I try to install a program. I did a search and I believe my issue is that I need to use wineboot to simulate a windows restart. When I try to run the command wineboot I get an error that says wine: cannot find L"C:\\windows\\system32\\wineboot.exe"

I've found a few posts on this, but no helpful answers yet. Is this a bad install or do I have it configured incorrectly? I'm a newb, so I apologize if this is a simple thing.

I'm running Fedora14.

Thanks!

[vitamin]

I keep getting prompted by wine that I need to reboot every time I try to install a program.

After installer is finished make sure all windows programs exist. You can check that with 'ps -ef | grep wine'. If you see wineserver running, that means something got stuck.

If that won't help, make sure you are using 32-bit Wine and not 64-bit Wine. To check if you are using 32-bit Wine run:

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WINEARCH=win32 wine winecfg

If it starts - you good.

[lmalhoit]

Thanks for the reply.

After doing the ps -ef | grep wine it just says that wine is running.

It does appear that I'm running the 64bit version. However, I didn't specify that. I just did a yum install wine. Is there a way to specify which version to install?

[vitamin]

After doing the ps -ef | grep wine it just says that wine is running.

Then you need to stop it with 'wineserver -k'. This will simulate a "reboot".

Is there a way to specify which version to install?

There are should be 2 separate set of packages of Wine. Wine is 32-bit bit. Another is 64-bit. Don't know exactly how they are named on your distro. You'll have to ask your distro forum / Wine packager.

[lmalhoit]

So, I want both the 64 bit and the 32 bit loaded?

[annabunches]

On 05/25/2011 12:21 PM, lmalhoit wrote:

So, I want both the 64 bit and the 32 bit loaded?

You probably just want 32-bit wine. 64-bit wine is... painful.

Sounds like you're in fedora; you can do this to get the 32-bit wine:

yum remove wine # to uninstall the 64-bit version; make sure nothing you
want to keep gets removed by this command!

yum install wine.i686 # specifying the architecture you want

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[lmalhoit]

Thanks for the suggestion! That seemed to go well. I'm now able to do wineboot at the command line and it doesn't give me an error.

However, I'm still getting the message "The system must be rebooted before installation can continue."

Any thoughts?

Thanks again!

[jjmckenzie]

On 5/25/11 12:53 PM, lmalhoit wrote:

Thanks for the suggestion! That seemed to go well. I'm now able to do wineboot at the command line and it doesn't give me an error.

However, I'm still getting the message "The system must be rebooted before installation can continue."

Any thoughts?

in another terminal session, type in wineboot. That should force the
original session to appear to have 'rebooted' and the installation
should continue.

James McKenzie

[lmalhoit]

I gave that a try, but no luck. It seems to go pretty quickly...like too quick. I'm not sure if it's actually doing anything.

[jjmckenzie]

On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 9:42 AM, lmalhoit <[email protected]> wrote:

I gave that a try, but no luck.  It seems to go pretty quickly...like too quick.  I'm not sure if it's actually doing anything.

wineboot 'fakes' a reboot of the system. I'm under the impression
that running this did not make it look to the program like the system
had rebooted.

[lmalhoit]

Okay, so it's probably just not working for the program I'm trying to use it with. Thanks for your help anyway.