Op 26 nov. 2017 10:52 schreef "Alan E. Davis via arch-general" < arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: To clarify, I have been running the same Arch Linux installation for many months, without a hitch. Until this event. [...] I will reinstall Arch Linux, no doubt, unless I can fix this. A quicker way may be to try another user first. My best guesses; you use some desktop environment and it has included wine's .desktop files and made at least one of them default for $action. So at some point, you ask your DE to execute $action; Let's say you open a JPEG file in a filemanager. The file manager looks up the default program, finds that it is wine related and executes the corresponding command. That program crashes for whatever reason, making it look like the entire system is broken (which it isn't necessarily). So, will an mkfs, followed by a fresh Arch install fix the problem? Probably, until you repeat the same steps, ending up in the same situation... An easier approach may be to create a new user, log in with that and repeat the action (in the example above, opening a JPEG). Same error? Then it's something system wide. No error? Then the problem hides in the homedir of the first user. Though, on second thought; the entire problem could be just ADE ;). If the problem is that it auto-starts on logon or whatever, try renaming the wine directory (~/.wine) first. That's just about comparable to reinstalling Windows... Where it comes to ADE: Can't help there, i'm afraid. I limit my collection to drm-free materials (organised with Calibre). Ps I often used $WINEPREFIX to separate Windows programs from one another. Mvg, Guus Snijders
