I apologize if the question has been posed before, but I did not find any similar posts by browsing or searching through the forums. Here it goes: I have been using Gentoo Linux for a year now, and never have I had a problem I couldn't solve. However, not long ago I bought a 1 TB hard disk which I divided into 7 partitions: /boot, (swap), /, /var, /tmp, /usr and /home (yes, that's FreeBSD influence right there). When I finished compilation of Wine, I found I could no longer install DirectX. Age of Empires III, Black & White II and Unreal Tournament III wouldn't install either - it wouldn't budge. These are the errors DXSetup produces: [Image: http://img111.imageshack.us/img111/8825/winetricks1.jpg ] [Image: http://img512.imageshack.us/img512/5236/winetricks.jpg ] (the console only displays a 'status 43' message, I don't even know what the hell that means) I figure it has to have something to do with permissions, as somehow the program can't write to my /home partition. I fiddled around with /etc/fstab and octal permissions all day, to no avail. This is my current configuration: Code: /dev/sda1 /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 1 2 /dev/sda2 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/sda4 / ext4 noatime 0 1 /dev/sda5 /var ext4 noatime 0 0 /dev/sda6 /tmp ext4 noatime 0 0 /dev/sda7 /usr ext4 noatime 0 0 /dev/sda8 /home ext4 noatime,users,rw,exec 0 0 /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,ro 0 0 shm /dev/shm tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0 As you can see, my /home partition and all its subdirectories have full drwxrwxrwx (777) permission. Also, my /home/${user} folder is owned by {user}:{user}. Wine detects all partitions and drives perfectly: [Image: http://img512.imageshack.us/img512/8273/winetricks2.jpg ] My Wine version is 1.1.20 (the problem persists after downgrading to stable), my O/S is Gentoo 64-bit (on kernel 2.6.28-r5), I have compiled all emul-linux-x86 libraries, all partitions except for /boot are ext4. Can anyone help me out? I'm going bald from stress here. Thanks in advance, Itzamna P.S.: I have done all the standard fix attempts, like deleting my ~/.wine folder, reemerging wine, installing a different wine version, ..., so please dream up a useful solution.
