I am having the same problem here on NetBSD/i386 3.0, with the same results, except that I am able to kill the processes after breaking out of winecfg. Ben On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 06:55:30AM +0100, Fabien Perdu wrote: > On Fri, 03 Feb 2006 16:41:58 -0600 > Mr Duck <tld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > I am unable to run anything, even winecfg. > > > [wec@wec-vero ~]$ winecfg > > > wine: creating configuration directory '/home/wec/.wine'... > > > No error message, but no window opens :-(( > > > > Does it actually create the directory /home/wec/.wine ? > > Not precisely. > It creates a directory > such as .wine-gA1cDR/ .wine-GTMM10/ .wine-jaHZgc/ .wine-Xv08Dy/, > a different one each time... > > > Is there anything in it after this happens? > > These directories all contain dosdevices drive_c (with a whole > hierarchy) system.reg and user.reg > > > Have you tried running the wincfg program as root? > > Yes, same business... > > > > > A dumb question, but I'll ask anyway, you are in an x-windows > > session, right? > > Of course :-)) > Actually with a KDE desktop. > > > Also, try setting a WINEDEBUG option and dump the output > > to a file. Perhaps it will shed some light on the issue. > > When I run (with a working wine system): > > > > WINDEBUG="+all" winecfg >& ./winecfg.debug > > [wec@wec-vero ~]$ WINDEBUG="+all" winecfg >& ./winecfg.debug > ^C > [wec@wec-vero ~]$ cat winecfg.debug > wine: creating configuration directory '/home/wec/.wine'... > [wec@wec-vero ~]$ > > > > I can get the control back with Ctrl-C, which leaves several > > > processes (wineserver,wine-preloader,and wineprefixcreate). > > > I can kill them all except wine-preloader (even with kill -9). > > > I now have a bunch of them... > > > > Try using "kill -KILL". That always takes care of any stubborn > > processes on my system. > > Not any difference with kill -9. > > _______________________________________________ > 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