I will use this topic to post all of my problems with wine (I decided that's better than opening a lot of stupid posts that only spam this forum)
(to admins: You can delete this topic if you think it's inappropriate)
I'm having a lot of problems with wine (maybe some of it is similar to yours,
so this is kind of DONT'S that you don't want ot do on your computer)
My first problem was this: http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t=591
(I later found out, that problem wasn't in wine it was in my drive that was used as C: drive in Wine)
The second problem was: http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t=609;
(very useful for all that want to install program from multiple installation disks)
But it's causing some real problems:
1) The installation doesn't continue after I put CD2 in tray. Why?
2) The program i wanted to install is now half installed and is resideng among lost&found. How can I "uninstall" if I never really installed it in the first place??
3) I had the problem that was auto resolved (I don't know how)
When I put CD with windows application on it I would loose icons of all of my drives. Well that was yesterday, but today it works just fine...
Hope this topic will be useful to all of you who want to experiment with wine what you should you not do (at least if you want your wine to work fine)
Thanks for your help (on my previous and this problems)
(hope I'm not spamming)
Primus's mishaps
sounds like you might have a problem with your disk where your filesystem was corrupt if you find things in lost+found2) The program i wanted to install is now half installed and is resideng among lost&found. How can I "uninstall" if I never really installed it in the first place??
if you have a bad disk, it can cause "a lot of problems"
Well yes it is a old disk. But maybe I didn't put it right...jeffz wrote:sounds like you might have a problem with your disk where your filesystem was corrupt if you find things in lost+found2) The program i wanted to install is now half installed and is resideng among lost&found. How can I "uninstall" if I never really installed it in the first place??
if you have a bad disk, it can cause "a lot of problems"
I don't find them in file Lost&Found but in my K-menu (i use Kubuntu) in KDE4 I find the whole wine under lost&found in K-menu (i think that's because of the fact that wine and KDE4 don't go along fine)
In KDE 3.5.9 Wine is under wine, but this semi installed program is under lost and found...
BTW: My main disk is 5-8 years old the other is around 5 years old (are they too old?)
Plus i remembered another problem in Warcraft 3 TFT when i want to save it reports some kind of error, I'll keep you all posted about that.
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Dan Kegel
Primus's mishaps
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 4:26 AM, Primus <[email protected]> wrote:
then copy your user data files from the old ones. Otherwise you're
asking for total data loss...
Probably. Better get a new disk and do a fresh install of Linux on it,BTW: My main disk is 5-8 years old the other is around 5 years old (are they too old?)
then copy your user data files from the old ones. Otherwise you're
asking for total data loss...
Primus's mishaps
On Monday April 21 2008 11:26:26 Primus wrote:
lost+found directory with Lost & Found in K-Menu. They serves completely
different purposes. If you see a lot of things in Lost & Found in K-Menu it
has *nothing* to do with you disks or your Linux installation (that means
your Linux installations and disks are probably OK, and most likely no need
to reinstall something or replace disks).
Personally I have a LOT of things in Lost & Found in K-Menu. But that's OK
for me. I use K-Menu not very often, and personally I don't care about it (if
you care you can sort them out manually using menu editor).
The Lost & Found in KDE menu is for placing applications that have a category
which doesn't fit into any existing menus.
lost+found in the root of your file system is for orphaned (corrupted) files.
smartctl (how many hours you disks worked and what's their current
condition). But in my experience good hard drives can easily work for many
years of real uptime.
Personally I still have my *very* old hard disks and all of them are still
working (only exception is my 20 MB (yes, this isn't a typo) hard drive - it
was disassembled many years ago and doesn't work anymore after that; but I'm
pretty sure that if it wasn't disassembled in dirty atmosphere in the past it
would be in working condition even today). I do not use hard disks with less
than 100 GB anymore because they are so small and just occupy space in PC
case; however, they are alive and I use some of them for additional backups
and some other specific purposes (like pseudo-mobile HD for example).
So if your disks are still OK (you can use smartctl to check this), you
havn't any hardware errors in your filesystem and you have no need in
extended memory then you don't need to replace them.
It seems that others who is trying to help you in this forum are confusingjeffz wrote:Well yes it is a old disk. But maybe I didn't put it right...sounds like you might have a problem with your disk where your filesystem2) The program i wanted to install is now half installed and is
resideng among lost&found. How can I "uninstall" if I never really
installed it in the first place??
was corrupt if you find things in lost+found
if you have a bad disk, it can cause "a lot of problems"
I don't find them in file Lost&Found but in my K-menu (i use Kubuntu) in
KDE4 I find the whole wine under lost&found in K-menu (i think that's
because of the fact that wine and KDE4 don't go along fine) In KDE 3.5.9
Wine is under wine, but this semi installed program is under lost and
found...
lost+found directory with Lost & Found in K-Menu. They serves completely
different purposes. If you see a lot of things in Lost & Found in K-Menu it
has *nothing* to do with you disks or your Linux installation (that means
your Linux installations and disks are probably OK, and most likely no need
to reinstall something or replace disks).
Personally I have a LOT of things in Lost & Found in K-Menu. But that's OK
for me. I use K-Menu not very often, and personally I don't care about it (if
you care you can sort them out manually using menu editor).
The Lost & Found in KDE menu is for placing applications that have a category
which doesn't fit into any existing menus.
lost+found in the root of your file system is for orphaned (corrupted) files.
Well, this depends on how *really* old they are. You can see this withBTW: My main disk is 5-8 years old the other is around 5 years old
(are they too old?)
smartctl (how many hours you disks worked and what's their current
condition). But in my experience good hard drives can easily work for many
years of real uptime.
Personally I still have my *very* old hard disks and all of them are still
working (only exception is my 20 MB (yes, this isn't a typo) hard drive - it
was disassembled many years ago and doesn't work anymore after that; but I'm
pretty sure that if it wasn't disassembled in dirty atmosphere in the past it
would be in working condition even today). I do not use hard disks with less
than 100 GB anymore because they are so small and just occupy space in PC
case; however, they are alive and I use some of them for additional backups
and some other specific purposes (like pseudo-mobile HD for example).
So if your disks are still OK (you can use smartctl to check this), you
havn't any hardware errors in your filesystem and you have no need in
extended memory then you don't need to replace them.
Primus's mishaps
On Monday April 21 2008 14:33:04 Dan Kegel wrote:
installation isn't completely destroyed (BTW, most packages reinstall
themselves during each distro-upgrade).
What about possibility of data loss, if someone care about this he/she
definitely is doing regular backups of whole system and at least daily backup
of his/her current work (if not, new hard drives will not help anyway;
without backups you lose everything sooner or later).
Well, there are definitely no reason to do fresh install of Linux if oldOn Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 4:26 AM, Primus <[email protected]> wrote:Probably. Better get a new disk and do a fresh install of Linux on it,BTW: My main disk is 5-8 years old the other is around 5 years old (are
they too old?)
then copy your user data files from the old ones. Otherwise you're
asking for total data loss...
installation isn't completely destroyed (BTW, most packages reinstall
themselves during each distro-upgrade).
What about possibility of data loss, if someone care about this he/she
definitely is doing regular backups of whole system and at least daily backup
of his/her current work (if not, new hard drives will not help anyway;
without backups you lose everything sooner or later).
