I'm new to wine, so I'm kind of stumbling around in the dark trying to
make heads or tails of the documentation. I'm trying to get a working
installation of wine and I'm having some troubles. I've tried downloading the source and using the wineinstall script and
that has stopped at several different spots with errors that I don't
understand, the last one was Error 2, this during the compile stage.
However, what I'm trying to figure out now is what the fuck is this
socket thing? When I try to run wine I get the following error message:
wine: lstat /tmp/.wine-aharris/server-301-829b5/socket : No such file or
directory
I've tried creating a blank file in that spot, but that gives me this
error:
wine: '/tmp/.wine-aharris/server-301-829b5/socket' is not a socket
What is a socket and how do I put one in the appropriate spot?
Thanks in advance. :-)
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Hello Alex, I'm not a wine expert but I do know unix. You were guessing right but a socket is a special file that is not a disk file even though it appears to be visible in a directory. A socket in this case is opened namely by the wine server in an effort to establish communications with the target wine application and of course the unix or Linux OS. Evidently, you need to review you install but also you can debug examining the unix/Linux system log files. In the case of Linux a system log might be: /var/log/messages. Also, review the wine doco on where specialized log files might be created and archived as the wine server performs functions over time. Hope this helps, David.
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