Re: Problems with wincfg

"dimesio" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.emulators.wine.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
David Bailey wrote:
> 2)      At some point I accidentally ran wine as super user :(

http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-8b89c928ce782c014b8b312469223296093e1484


> 4)     When I clicked on the Drives tab, I got the message: Failed to connect to the mount manager.

Sounds like you didn't install all the necessary 32 bit parts of Wine. I believe Fedora splits Wine into lots of different packages; make sure you have all the ones you need.


> Also, if wine is not to be used as super user, why doesn't it check for that eventuality and stop with an error message before any damage is done?
> 

It's not recommended, but ultimately it's the user's choice.
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