[Bug 12238] New: wine chooses wrong home directory

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12238

Summary: wine chooses wrong home directory
           Product: Wine
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: programs
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]

Wine failed to find c:\Windows

According to spec, it should have looked for
~hendrik/.wine/fake_windows/Windows.
I suspect it actually looked in /home/hendrik/.wine/fake_windows/Windows.

My home directory is /farhome/hendrik, not /home/hendrik.

After I inserted a symbolic link

ln -s /home/hendrik /farhome/hendrik

wine stopped complaining about not finding c:\Windows.

I suspect that Wine assumes home directories are in /home instead of looking in
the appropriate configuration file, such as /etc/passwd.  (There ought to be a
system call you can use to find this information instead of grotting around in
/etc/passwd.  Is there?)

-- hendrik

[Bug 12238] wine chooses wrong home directory

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12238

Hendrik Boom  changed:

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Dan Kegel  changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Dan Kegel   2008-03-26 16:27:26 ---
Perhaps Wine is simply recording the home directory
somewhere it shouldn't be.

Did it change recently?

If you remove that symlink, blow away ~/.wine, and
reinstall your apps (if any), does wine get your home
dir right?

[Bug 12238] wine chooses wrong home directory

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12238

--- Comment #2 from Lei Zhang   2008-03-26 16:29:41 ---
Wine should be looking at $HOME. What is $HOME set to on your machine?

[Bug 12238] wine chooses wrong home directory

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12238

--- Comment #3 from Hendrik Boom   2008-03-26 16:34:54 ---
(In reply to comment #2)
> Wine should be looking at $HOME. What is $HOME set to on your machine?

hendrik@lovesong:~$ echo $HOME
/farhome/hendrik
hendrik@lovesong:~$

-- hendrik

[Bug 12238] wine chooses wrong home directory

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12238

--- Comment #4 from James Hawkins   2008-03-26 16:35:12 ---
check out wine/libs/wine/config.c:174

we first check the HOME env var, and if it doesn't exist, we call getpwuid and
get the home dir from that structure (like you were guessing).  For that to
work, HAVE_GETPWUID has to be defined when wine is built.

[Bug 12238] wine chooses wrong home directory

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12238

--- Comment #5 from Hendrik Boom   2008-03-26 16:44:37 ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> Perhaps Wine is simply recording the home directory
> somewhere it shouldn't be.
>
> Did it change recently?
>
> If you remove that symlink, blow away ~/.wine, and
> reinstall your apps (if any), does wine get your home
> dir right?

When I do this, it no longer complains.

-- hendrik

[Bug 12238] wine chooses wrong home directory

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12238

James Hawkins  changed:

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--- Comment #6 from James Hawkins   2008-03-26 16:49:32 ---
Invalid.

[Bug 12238] wine chooses wrong home directory

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--- Comment #7 from James Hawkins   2008-03-26 16:49:48 ---
Closing.

[Bug 12238] wine chooses wrong home directory

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12238

Dan Kegel  changed:

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--- Comment #8 from Dan Kegel   2008-03-26 17:07:32 ---
Hang on, maybe it's not invalid.

Shouldn't Wine continue working if the user's
home directory is relocated?  It would be a nice
feature, and it's not unreasonable to expect.

[Bug 12238] wine chooses wrong home directory

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12238

Dmitry Timoshkov  changed:

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--- Comment #9 from Dmitry Timoshkov   2008-03-26 23:41:11 ---
Looks like Wine is not relocated but from another era: fake_windows

That's really makes it invalid.

[Bug 12238] wine chooses wrong home directory

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Dmitry Timoshkov  changed:

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--- Comment #10 from Dmitry Timoshkov   2008-03-26 23:41:27 ---
Closing.

[Bug 12238] wine chooses wrong home directory

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12238

--- Comment #11 from Dan Kegel   2008-03-27 00:13:26 ---
I wondered about that.  Wow.