WINE: Permissions Issue When Installing 'Guild Wars'

cjc

I am trying to install the demo client for "Guild Wars" (it is free over the next few days, thought I'd join my Windows buddies at seeing what it is like). You can download the client here. The only problem is that every install (no matter the destination, permissions on the destination, etc) does this:

[img:7de33fc40c]http://studentweb.cs.bham.ac.uk/~ug97cjc/gwperm.png[/img:7de33fc40c]

Now, it is not a space issue (unless it is trying to use over the 31GB I have free on that disk...), and I cannot see how it is a permissions issue.

Here is the "df -h" output for that drive:

josh · Posted: Tue May 11, 2004 5:59 pm Post subject:

hm, tricky. what's the permissions your program files directory? (ls -ld .wine/fake_windows/Program\ Files)

To be extra sure, you could change to your .wine/ directory then do "chmod -R *"
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cjc · Posted: Tue May 11, 2004 6:04 pm Post subject:

josh · Posted: Tue May 11, 2004 6:13 pm Post subject:

(oops, I meant "chmod -R 755 *")

But that's odd. I've used wine a bit, but really only to play Half-Life. After they switched to steam, I haven't been able to get it to work, so I haven't tinkered with it much.

Are there any directories in your .wine/config that wine may be trying to access that you don't have permission to access? Such as a windows partition or cdrom or something?
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cjc · Posted: Tue May 11, 2004 6:15 pm Post subject:

It has 'Z:', which is / and therefore it only has read permission, would that be a problem?

[edit]
Oops, to answer the rest. The CD drive is in my WINE directory, I loop mount ISOs there. There is no Windows partition. As far as I can see 'Z:' is the only 'device' that exists outside of ~/.wine/.

josh · Posted: Tue May 11, 2004 6:20 pm Post subject:

Doesn't seem like the Z:\ drive would effect anything unless it was trying to install there, which it wouldn't.

You could try creating a .wine directory and everything for root, and try running it as root. After that, I'm fresh out of ideas.
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cjc · Posted: Tue May 11, 2004 6:26 pm Post subject:

Thanks for your help, even if we did not resolve the issue. I would rather not run it as root, if there is a chance that it is the Z: drive thing -- having it dumping files all over / is not something I desire. I'll keep trying things, and post if I come across the solution.

By the way, I should have probably stated (in case it is not implied in some way) that this is a working installation of WINE that runs several other games.

josh · Posted: Tue May 11, 2004 6:34 pm Post subject:

yeah, glad to help. I understand your concern with running as root. I hadn't thought of that. you cold try commenting out the Z drive incase it's a problem; with cjc that is. but I doubt it.

what windows version are you emulating? I'm not sure how to change it with wine, but with winex you do "wine --winver winxp prog.exe". Maybe it's the same for wine now. Because I think it defaults to win95. But then, that wouldn't be a problem I guess. Could try downgradign the winver to like win98 when permissions wouldn't have been a problem. It might be in the config file.
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cjc · Posted: Tue May 11, 2004 6:40 pm Post subject:

That is in the config file, and unfortunately I had just (unsuccessfully) tried being Windows 2000 and XP. It was set as Windows 98 by default, and that is what I normally use.

cjc · Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 12:30 pm Post subject:

Okay, can we take a backwards step: can other people reproduce this error and or install? (regardless of considering what my issue is.)

josh · Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 2:53 pm Post subject:

ha, I just tried to install it, and I'm getting the exact same error as you. But I'm getting a bit from the debug. Check this out:

josh · Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 2:56 pm Post subject:

also, I even tried to change it to install into my "D:" drive, which is my home directory. No go.
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Kestrel2 · n00b Joined: 12 May 2004 Posts: 3

same problem here, getting the above err dialog

what's weird, is if you click on "Change" in the installer, you can see the wine filesystem just fine...

running wine 20040408
kernel 2.6.4

rettichschnidi · n00b Joined: 03 Aug 2004 Posts: 15

i've exactly the same problem. no rights,... blablabla.... too no idea,sry
im using the german version and cedega-4.3.2

Xoalin · n00b Joined: 11 Jun 2004 Posts: 40 Location: North Pole

Not sure if anyone is still paying attention to this thread or not.

But for those of you who are having problems installing guild wars, do you know if your installer is able to connect to arenanet?

I am having a similar issue, and I am begining to wonder if that is the issue.
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Xoalin · n00b Joined: 11 Jun 2004 Posts: 40 Location: North Pole

Try this link, for a downloadable installer.

Tried it and it installed fine (so far) with plain old wine.
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gralves · Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2005 4:34 am Post subject:

I have exactly the same problem with wine 20050725 and several apps (permission problem with the isntalation).