Re: wine problem

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Richard Black wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion, but I fixed that stuff (and so got rid of the first two
> lines--which look like warnings anyway) and still no luck
> 
> I still get
> 
> wine WORDPAD.EXE
> wine: can't exec 'WORDPAD.EXE': error=0
> 
> cheers
> 
> Richard
> 
> >
> Thomas Guettler wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 10:37:23AM -0400, Richard Black wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I am trying to use wine--something that I have had no problem doing in
> > > the past--but all I get currently are exec errors e.g.:
> > >
> > > wine WORDPAD.EXE
> > > Could not stat /floppy, ignoring drive A:
> > > Could not stat /cdrom, ignoring drive D:
> > > wine: can't exec 'WORDPAD.EXE': error=0
> > >
> >
> > never used wine before, but it sounds like
> > you have no access rights to your devices.
> >
> > put yourself in group floppy, make cdrom user mountable
> > in /etc/fstab
> >
> > --
> >                        Thomas Guettler

I upgraded WINE a week or two ago and then I started getting this same
type of message. I tinkered and fought and finally gave up. Then a
couple of days ago I pointed my sources.list to woody and updated again.
That problem went away. My favorite app ("Backgammon, by George")
crashes a lot now, when it was pretty stable two WINE versions ago, but
at least I can usually get in one and a half games before it just winks
out of existence.

Sorry this isn't a real solution for you, but it might help somehow.