http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29341
Bug #: 29341 Summary: Wine fails to populate its prefix if ~/.wine points to a non-existent directory Product: Wine Version: 1.3.34 Platform: All OS/Version: All Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: minor Priority: P2 Component: wineserver AssignedTo: wine-bugs@winehq.org ReportedBy: t.artem@mailcity.com Classification: Unclassified
I have several wine prefixes but I want to keep the default ~/.wine temporary thus I created a symbolic link from ~/.wine to /tmp/wine. I do it because I don't want to have temporary software kept (and survive reboots) at all.
The problem is that my /tmp folder is a tmpfs mount point thus after every (re)boot /tmp is empty and /tmp/wine doesn't exist any longer. In this case wine fails to run with this message:
wine: chdir to /home/username/.wine : No such file or directory
Please, allow such a usage scenario (e.g. try to create ~/.wine regardless).