The latest release of wine (20050111) compiles fine, but it is not possible to create a profile directory. Wine crashes immediately. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Enter the command wine Actual Results: Wine output this: wine: creating configuration directory '/home/xXx/.wine'... wine: Unhandled exception (thread 0009), starting debugger... err:seh:EXC_DefaultHandling Unhandled exception code c0000005 flags 0 addr 0x77edd5f1 wine: wineprefixcreate failed while creating '/home/xXx/.wine'. bash-2.05b$ wineserver: could not save registry branch to /home/xXx/.wine-V8X6Ob/system.reg : No such file or directory wineserver: could not save registry branch to /home/xXx/.wine-V8X6Ob/userdef.reg : No such file or directory wineserver: could not save registry branch to /home/xXx/.wine-V8X6Ob/user.reg : No such file or directory Expected Results: Wine should have created a profile directory and showed up the status information or the usage information.
if you `rm -r ~/.wine*` and try again does it still fail ?
It especially crashes if I do so...
please file a bug in the upstream bug tracker i believe the URL is http://bugs.winehq.org/
