Wine refusing to create a configuration directory there

[PG]

Hello,

I am new on the forum, and apologize in advance if this question was answered somewhere else -I looked up, but couldn't find it.

This is NOT an issue with running wine as root; I am NOT trying to do that. Just so everybody knows!

I am using MacOS 10.7.3 on a late 2011 MacBook Pro, and Wine used to work on it up until last week (it had been ported from a preceding Snow Leopard machine).

Unfortunately something happened, and I had to reinstall it -and can't. The install itself works, but wen I try either to winecfg, or to open an .exe file (same difference, I gather), I get this Terminal message:

MacBook-4:~ pierregervais$ winecfg
wine: '/Users/pierregervais' is not owned by you, refusing to create a configuration directory there

As you see, I am NOT working under the root shell. However, for some reason the wine process, which was installed at the root -and from what I read there is no other way- decides that it is not allowed to write into my Home Directory. Of course I could sudo evrything, but this would be tantamount to running wine in root, wouldn't it? And I fully agree with the rule which forbids that.

Install: I tried two ways, first the way I had installed it on Snow Leopard,

http://www.davidbaumgold.com/tutorials/wine-mac/

with the special PATH commands after MacPorts

then a more streamlined way

http://computechtips.com/install-wine-mac-lion

without any PATH terminal fiddling.

Either way ends up in the same mistake.

All this may be created by a permissions issue on my Mac; I tried reparing permissions of course, to no avail...

Any help, hint, or pointer would be deeply appreciated. I am not a very compeent user, and know probably way not enough about the structure of permissions. But Installing Wine seemed, and was straightforward the first time out, and I can't figure out what I am doing wrong here!

Pierre Gervais

[PG]

Good morning, and never mind! One should never take up forum space late at night. With a few hours' sleep, I was coherent enough to think of checking Home Directory ownership through BatChmod -and to discover that owner had been mysteriously set to root instead of username.

When ownership was changed back (replacing root as owner with my username through BatChmod), there were still a few bugs in the system, but Wine is indeed up and running. Will reinstall, though, and confirm that the problem is solved...

Sorry for the wasted space!

PG

[alimcg]

i seem to have messed up my permissions also, as i get the same message:

wine: '/Users/robmcgrew' is not owned by you, refusing to create a configuration directory there
### LOG ### Command '/Applications/Wine.app/Contents/Resources/bin/wine regedit /tmp/coreaudio.reg' returned status 1.

BUT i don't know how to fix it with chmod. can someone please help??

[jjmckenzie]

On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 9:22 AM, alimcg <[email protected]> wrote:

i seem to have messed up my permissions also, as i get the same message:

wine: '/Users/robmcgrew' is not owned by you, refusing to create a configuration directory there

Where does this file reside and are you on a Mac by chance?

James