winex

[ice13]

i've recently installed RH 9 and tried to install wine/winex.
the problem is i keep getting an error about wineserver/socket not being a file or directory...also when i last tried to build from source i got segmentation faults and even had to reset my PC(rare thing under linux )




thanks in advance,
ice

[Dolda2000]

That is actually a bug in wine. Run "rm -rf ~/.wine/wineserver*" to fix it temporarily.
If gcc segfaults, that is a _bad_ thing. It often indicates hardware failure. If I were you, I'd download memtest86 and leave it on during a night (or preferrably the whole day) to let it test your memory thoroughly.

[ice13]

already tried the rm thing and it didn't work. any other ideas?
what memory are we talking about RAM or HD?
do i realy have to let that app run all day or could i leave it on for a few hours?

[Dolda2000]

Didn't work? Do you mean that it made no difference at all? That seems rather strange in that case. See if you have any wine-related processes running, and if so, kill them, and then try the rm thing again. If you want a fast and efficient way of killing all wine processes, do this:

ps -A | grep wine | awk '{print $1;}' | xargs -i kill -KILL {}

As for the memory, I'm talking about the RAM. Although you _can_ just leave it on for a few hours, it's not certain that it will detect it then. You should let it run through all tests a couple of times.
Like I said, you can just leave it on during the night. That way it should have enough time.