Austin English wrote: > On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 9:58 AM, James Mckenzie > <jjmckenzi...@earthlink.net> wrote: >> Aurimas FiĊĦeras <auri...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Sent: Feb 9, 2009 7:45 AM >>> To: James Mckenzie <jjmckenzi...@earthlink.net> >>> Cc: wine-devel@winehq.org >>> Subject: Re: ntdll: add a warning about running wine as root (resend) >>> >>> James Mckenzie wrote: >>>> Alexandre Julliard <julli...@winehq.org> wrote: >>>> [...] >>>> New wine installation: >>>> >>>> su (no dash so root's environment is not picked up) >>>> wine notepad >>>> install various programs and use them. >>>> exit >>>> >>>> User logs in a second time after learning how to properly use Wine. >>>> Attempt to do anything with Wine in user space. Cannot do due to >>>> permissions problems. >>>> >>>> The solution: >>>> >>>> sudo rm -rf .wine >>> No, the solution is >>> sudo chown -R user:user .wine >> Correct. However, this is not being given as the solution. >> >> Also, if the user is on an alternate wine prefix this would change to: >> >> sudo chown -R <username>:users $WINEPREFIX >> >> Is this in the FAQ somewhere? >> >> James McKenzie >> >> > It is now (before, just said sudo rm -rf ~/.wine). >
You forgetting all the files created under ~/Desktop, ~/.config and ~/.local. Those will be a bigger pita and source for lots of issues. Vitaliy.