[Bug 29341] New: Wine fails to populate its prefix if ~/.wine points to a non-existent directory

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: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]
    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).

[Bug 29341] Wine fails to populate its prefix if ~/.wine points to a non-existent directory

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29341

Bruno Jesus  changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Bruno Jesus  2011-12-13 17:54:42 CST ---
Can't you mkdir /tmp/wine on boot? Like in /etc/rc.local or any other /etc/rcX
from your distro?

You're giving an invalid link to wine. As far as I understand it's different
than giving a non-existant directory.

[Bug 29341] Wine fails to populate its prefix if ~/.wine points to a non-existent directory

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29341

Dmitry Timoshkov  changed:

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          Component|wineserver                  |-unknown
           Platform|All                         |Other
         OS/Version|All                         |other
           Severity|minor                       |enhancement

--- Comment #2 from Dmitry Timoshkov  2011-12-13 20:05:43 CST ---
Probably an invalid request.

[Bug 29341] Wine fails to populate its prefix if ~/.wine points to a non-existent directory

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29341

Vitaliy Margolen  changed:

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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |INVALID

--- Comment #3 from Vitaliy Margolen  2011-12-13 20:12:34 CST ---
Wine prefix have to be a real directory. Wineserver explicitly checks for that,
and errors out if it's not a directory.

Invalid. Your Wine is probably modified and have this check removed.

[Bug 29341] Wine fails to populate its prefix if ~/.wine points to a non-existent directory

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29341

--- Comment #4 from Artem S. Tashkinov  2011-12-14 02:42:32 CST ---
A lot of applications I have installed here just create their files regardless,
so how it can be difficult for Wine to do the same (without checking for
errors), and only after that check if it can chdir to it?

[Bug 29341] Wine fails to populate its prefix if ~/.wine points to a non-existent directory

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29341

Dmitry Timoshkov  changed:

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             Status|RESOLVED                    |CLOSED

--- Comment #5 from Dmitry Timoshkov  2011-12-14 03:00:28 CST ---
Early reaction on errors is a key for safe programming. You're asking for
something really not reasonable.