WINE problems

[Tynach]

Hello, world!

Haven't posted here in a long time (haven't had any problems I couldn't solve), but I find the need to post here yet again.

I recently updated to Kubuntu 8.04, and now Wine does not work. Whenever I try to run a Wine program, nothing happens.

I tried using ksysguard to see if Wine even starts, and it does for about two seconds, then quits.

If I try to run winecfg through a terminal, here is what the error output is:

fixme:advapi:RegisterEventSourceW ((null),L"Print"): stub
fixme:winsock:convert_af_w2u unhandled Windows address family 26
fixme:winsock:convert_af_w2u unhandled Windows address family 26
fixme:winsock:convert_af_w2u unhandled Windows address family 26
fixme:ds:DsRoleGetPrimaryDomainInformation ((nil), 1, 0x32f030) stub
fixme:advapi:LsaOpenPolicy ((null),0x32efd8,0x00000001,0x32eff4) stub
fixme:advapi:LsaClose (0xcafe) stub
fixme:profile:CloseProfileUserMapping (), stub!
fixme:advapi:ObjectOpenAuditAlarmW stub (L"Spooler",0x4a0158,L"Server",L"\\\\Colin-Linux",0x162970,0xac,0x00000001,0x00000001,(nil),0,1,0x75bfb4fc)
fixme:advapi:ObjectCloseAuditAlarmW stub (L"Spooler",0x4a0158,0)
err:winspool:add_printer_driver Failed adding driver "wineps.drv" ("Windows NT x86"): 1805
fixme:winspool:AddPrinterW Can't create printer L"hp_LaserJet_1300"
err:winspool:CUPS_LoadPrinters printer 'hp_LaserJet_1300' not added by AddPrinterA (error 1801)
fixme:advapi:ObjectOpenAuditAlarmW stub (L"Spooler",0x4a0158,L"Server",L"\\\\Colin-Linux",0x162970,0xac,0x00000001,0x00000001,(nil),0,1,0x75bfb4fc)
fixme:advapi:ObjectCloseAuditAlarmW stub (L"Spooler",0x4a0158,0)
err:winspool:add_printer_driver Failed adding driver "wineps.drv" ("Windows NT x86"): 1805
err:winspool:CUPS_LoadPrinters printer 'PDF' not added by AddPrinterA (error 1797)
fixme:mixer:ALSA_MixerInit No master control found on MPU-401 UART, disabling mixer
err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {a9e69610-b80d-11d0-b9b9-00a0c922e750} not registered
err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {a9e69610-b80d-11d0-b9b9-00a0c922e750} not registered
err:ole:create_server class {a9e69610-b80d-11d0-b9b9-00a0c922e750} not registered
fixme:ole:CoGetClassObject CLSCTX_REMOTE_SERVER not supported
err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {a9e69610-b80d-11d0-b9b9-00a0c922e750} could be created for context 0x17

I never had this problem until I updated to 8.04 over the Internet. I've installed all updates since then. I have programs installed that I don't want to reinstall again, so I don't want to erase ~/.wine/ or anything like that.

[svpctech]

Re: WINE problems

I would recommend that you back up your .wine folder and purge the wine package and go with a fresh install. You can wait till KUbuntu finally decides to let us have Wine 1.0 in the repos.


But as dangerous as wine is, do you really need it

[Tynach]

Re: WINE problems

I've never heard of it as dangerous, and its never caused problems in the past.

And, there ARE a few programs that I like to run on it (Portal and other games work faster under Wine than in Windows, for some reason).

[skedone]

Re: WINE problems

i would say do a fresh install mate i did yesterday and all is working well (apart from episode 2 ) thats moans about a permission error

[Tynach]

Re: WINE problems

Do you mean a fresh install of Ubuntu, or a fresh install of Wine?

I've already reinstalled Wine. And I don't want to do a fresh Ubuntu install, because I have no way to reliably back up my data (honestly, don't argue with this. Just accept this fact and don't try to help me with backing up data).