Re: wine problem

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On 2/13/07, Yuandan Zhang < yuandan.zhang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > I have probelm with wine. if this is not the right place to ask, please
> > > point me to.
> > >
> > > I installed the lasted wine and associates from fedora-extras on FC5. my
> > > system (kenerl etc) has been updated with the latest verison of rpms.
> > > when I start any wine command (wineconfig wineboot, it just hangs there.
> > >
> > > here is a example of the error:
> > >
> > > [host|10:02:54|~]wineboot
> > > wine: creating configuration directory '/home/zhang/.wine'...
> > > Failed to open the service control manager.
> > >
> > > wine-cms-0.9.30-1.fc5...
From http://www.tutorials-blog.com/wine/Failed-open/:
goldstein.mark@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Now, the first strange thing I see is that when I'm running
> wineprefixcreate, I'm getting this "Failed to open the service control
> manager" message when the script tries to issue "wine rundll32.exe
> setupapi.dll,InstallHinfSection DefaultInstall 128 wine.inf". But when
> after that I'm issuing the same command manually, it works OK.

All of us see this when we create a new .wine directory. No idea why,
but it has been like this for many versions, and seemingly is harmless.

> Is it a symptom of something wrong, or can I just ignore it and
> continue experimenting (I still fail to run IE)?

If you _really_ want IE, have a look at ies4linux
Seems to be normal. What are you actually trying to do? I was attempting to get a specific application working under wine yesterday and ended up chasing down this same message.

Cheers,
Dave

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