Denpos <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >Whenever I try to open anything that has to do with wine (winecfg, run an exe with wine, uninstall wine programs,...) by >using the GUI menu, I get the error "The program wineboot.exe has encountered a serious problem and needs to close.". > >So I tried using the terminal, which gives me the same error. > >But with su-privileges, I can get everything working: I can run winecfg, run wine *.exe,... > You broke Wine's pseudo-Windows directory by using root to run Wine (that is what su and sudo do.) You might be able to recover by doing the following: Change to your user's home directory: cd and issue the command to change the file owner AND group by using the change owner command: chown -R <user name>:<user group> .wine If this does not work then you will have to delete the .wine directory and start over. BTW, WHY are you running Wine as root? James McKenzie
