Hi Mark, The "#" at the end of the prompt traditionally goes with root, while an ordinary user would have something different, like ">" or "$" or "%". - Walter On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 11:22:17 -0800 (PST), Walt Ogburn > <reuben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi Dan, > > > > Are you trying to run wine as root? If so, why? > > > > - Walter > > > Walt, > I don;t think he's trying to run as root: > > /home/gbdoco # wine --version > > However, I've run into this sort of thing a couple of times and > haven't been able to explain it as of yet. He probably shoudll try to > run it from the top of the Windows directory structure though. I've > seen that help. > > - Mark > > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, Dan O wrote: > > > > > Here we go... > > > > > > Version > > > SuSE:/home/gbdoco # wine --version > > > Warning: the specified Windows directory L"C:\\Windows" is not accessible. > > > Warning: the specified System directory L"C:\\Windows\\System" is not > > > accessible. > > > Wine 20041019 > > > > > > I can see the config file, > > > > > > I have not modified anything. > > > > > > And I have tryed to install a couple apps, ABC bittorent client (just cause > > > I had it lying around) > > > WinAmp > > > and exam essencials 5.5 > > > > > > They all get the same error. "Error writing temporary file. Make sure your > > > temp folder is valid." > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > "Mark Knecht" <markknecht@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message > > > news:5bdc1c8b04110906414316d78@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 00:27:26 -0600, Dan O <legacyboy@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > "Error writing temporary file. Make sure your temp folder is valid." > > > > > > > > > > Can someone help out with this one? I have been trying to figure it out > > > all > > > > > day :( > > > > > > > > > > I have installed from the newest RPM for SuSE 9.1, and get the above as > > > any > > > > > user. I suspect there is something to be changed in the config file, but > > > I > > > > > have no idea where to start. > > > > > > > > > > Thanks All, > > > > > > > > Hi Dan, > > > > A few questions: > > > > > > > > 1) What version of Wine? Run the command > > > > > > > > wine --version > > > > > > > > 2) Are you using a config file? Assuming things are in the normal > > > > place, run the command > > > > > > > > ls -al ~dan/.wine > > > > > > > > 3) Have you modified any of the links in dosdevices? > > > > > > > > ls -al ~dan/.wine/dosdevices > > > > > > > > 4) What application are you running that is causing this message? Is > > > > it known to work according to the WineHQ application database? > > > > > > > > Let's start with that much and see where it leads. > > > > > > > > good luck, > > > > Mark > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > wine-users mailing list > > > wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx > > > http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > wine-users mailing list > > wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx > > http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users > > > _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
