[Bug 9567] New: steam crashes when installed to user' s home and there is a dosdevice symlink to /home/user

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9567

Summary: steam crashes when installed to user's home and there is
                    a dosdevice symlink to /home/user
           Product: Wine
           Version: 0.9.44.
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: wine-binary
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]

i prefer to install games to my home directory, rather than the .wine
directory.  however, there is a problem with Valve's steam application when
doing this.

i've set up a symlink to my home directory (so that steam will see the correct
amount of free disk space on that partition)

$ ln -s /home/user /home/user/.wine/dosdevices/h:"

to repoduce this bug, install steam (http://www.steampowered.com) to
/home/user/games.  also make sure you've set up the symlink as above.  then run
steam with

$ wine /home/user/games/steam.exe

you will get the error

Steam - Fatal Error
  Fatal Error: Could not load module 'bin/vgui2.dll'

note that the problem does not occur if the symlink to /home/user is not set
up.  however this isn't a solution because steam will refuse to install games
because it thinks that the free space on my / partition is the free space on my
/home partition.

thanks for all the hard work on wine.

[Bug 9567] steam crashes when installed to user' s home and there is a dosdevice symlink to /home/user

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9567

Vitaliy Margolen  changed:

What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |INVALID

--- Comment #1 from Vitaliy Margolen   2007-09-02 18:50:10 ---
> $ wine /home/user/games/steam.exe

Invalid! Read FAQ for how properly run win applications!
http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ

[Bug 9567] steam crashes when installed to user' s home and there is a dosdevice symlink to /home/user

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9567

Vitaliy Margolen  changed:

What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|RESOLVED                    |CLOSED

--- Comment #2 from Vitaliy Margolen   2007-09-02 18:50:22 ---
Closing invalid.

[Bug 9567] steam crashes when installed to user' s home and there is a dosdevice symlink to /home/user

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9567

--- Comment #3 from Michael Gilbert   2007-09-02 19:13:58 ---
ok, i see

wine "h:\games\steam.exe"

does work as i expect.  steam now detects that the h drive has the same free
space as my home partition.

why not either make wine autodetect the correct windows path or just fail when
passed the unix path?

thanks for your help!

[Bug 9567] steam crashes when installed to user' s home and there is a dosdevice symlink to /home/user

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9567

James Hawkins  changed:

What    |Removed                     |Added
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          Component|_obsolete_binary            |-unknown