I am running wine 1.1.27 on Ubuntu 9.04 amd64. I install wine, making no changes to it. Run "wine vcredist_x86.exe". I eventually come up with the "Unable to find a volume for file extraction. Please verify that you have proper permissions." Code: wine vcredist_x86.exe wine: created the configuration directory '/home/user/.wine' fixme:mixer:ALSA_MixerInit No master control found on HDA ATI HDMI, disabling mixer fixme:system:SetProcessDPIAware stub! fixme:dwmapi:DwmIsCompositionEnabled 0x33cf94 fixme:file:MoveFileWithProgressW MOVEFILE_WRITE_THROUGH unimplemented fixme:advapi:SetNamedSecurityInfoW L"C:\\windows\\system32\\gecko\\1.0.0\\wine_gecko\\components\\xpti.dat" 1 536870916 (nil) (nil) 0x19c214 (nil) fixme:iphlpapi:NotifyAddrChange (Handle 0xa71e908, overlapped 0xa71e910): stub fixme:iphlpapi:GetAdaptersAddresses no support for IPv6 addresses fixme:file:MoveFileWithProgressW MOVEFILE_WRITE_THROUGH unimplemented fixme:advapi:SetNamedSecurityInfoW L"C:\\windows\\system32\\gecko\\1.0.0\\wine_gecko\\components\\compreg.dat" 1 536870916 (nil) (nil) 0x1ecb65c (nil) fixme:shell:DllCanUnloadNow stub X Error of failed request: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) Major opcode of failed request: 152 (GLX) Minor opcode of failed request: 19 (X_GLXQueryServerString) Serial number of failed request: 1998 Current serial number in output stream: 1998 err:process:__wine_kernel_init boot event wait timed out fixme:clusapi:GetNodeClusterState ((null),0x32ec9c,0) stub! The error occurs in a pop up window at the end. Using the winetricks script where it creates "~/.wine/harddiskvolume0/" to link to "~/.wine/drive_c/" does not change anything (looks like it shouldn't matter anyway).