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I apologize if the question has been posed before, but I did not find any similar posts by browsing or searching through the forums. Here it goes: I have been using Gentoo Linux for a year now, and never have I had a problem I couldn't solve.
However, not long ago I bought a 1 TB hard disk which I divided into 7 partitions: /boot, (swap), /, /var, /tmp, /usr and /home (yes, that's FreeBSD influence right there). When I finished compilation of Wine, I found I could no longer install DirectX. Age of Empires III, Black & White II and Unreal Tournament III wouldn't install either - it wouldn't budge.
These are the errors DXSetup produces: (the console only displays a 'status 43' message, I don't even know what the hell that means) I figure it has to have something to do with permissions, as somehow the program can't write to my /home partition. I fiddled around with /etc/fstab and octal permissions all day, to no avail. This is my current configuration. And never have I had a problem I couldn't solve. However, not long ago I bought a 1 TB hard disk which I divided into 7 partitions: /boot, (swap), /, /var, /tmp, /usr and /home (yes, that's FreeBSD influence right there).
When I finished compilation of Wine, I found I could no longer install DirectX. Age of Empires III, Black & White II and Unreal Tournament III wouldn't install either - it wouldn't budge. These are the errors DXSetup produces: You should NEVER install DirectX under wine. John Martin Gregorie. I figure it has to have something to do with permissions, as somehow the program can't write to my /home partition. I fiddled around with /etc/fstab and octal permissions all day, to no avail.
This is my current configuration: Actually, you haven't posted the permissions for /home, which of course would be the output from 'ls -l /home', but its possible you've managed to run out of room in a partition. The best way to see that is by running: df -h FWIW Fedora distros run this as part of the overnight logwatch report - I'd imagine Gentoo does something similar.
If you don't want to login as root every day to read the system mail messages you can redirect the,m to your usual mail account. Add the redirect by editing /etc/aliases and then run 'newaliases' to update the aliases database. 'man aliases' describes the file format and how its used. Martin austin987. And never have I had a problem I couldn't solve.
However, not long ago I bought a 1 TB hard disk which I divided into 7 partitions: /boot, (swap), /, /var, /tmp, /usr and /home (yes, that's FreeBSD influence right there). When I finished compilation of Wine, I found I could no longer install DirectX. Age of Empires III, Black & White II and Unreal Tournament III wouldn't install either - it wouldn't budge. These are the errors DXSetup produces: You should NEVER install DirectX under wine.
No.there are a few cases where it is needed, though d3dx9 is preferred (from winetricks). Where are you running the executable from? Is it one of the noexec partitions?
- -Austin Itzamna. Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda4 510M 326M 158M 68% / udev 10M 196K 9.9M 2% /dev /dev/sda5 4.0G 240M 3.6G 7% /var /dev/sda6 510M 19M 466M 4% /tmp /dev/sda7 9.9G 6.6G 2.9G 70% /usr /dev/sda8 895G 168G 682G 20% /home shm 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /dev/shm /dev/sdb1 230G 162G 56G 75% /media/disk None of my partitions seem full, so no problems there. The permissions of my /home directory are all drwxrwxrwx or -rwxrwxrwx, I can't imagine that's the problem either. I don't want to mount /usr with the exec option, as that would be a huge security risk.
Is there anyone who has a clue? Martin Gregorie. I don't want to mount /usr with the exec option, as that would be a huge security risk. Well, considering that /usr contains just about all executables except those that are needed at boot time you might want to reconsider that. The standard places to look for executables are /bin - programs used during the boot process /sbin - privileged programs used during the boot process /usr/bin - all programs in a distro's optional packages and extras /usr/sbin - all privileged programs in a distro's optional packages and extras /usr/local/bin these are where all non-distro programs should go, /usr/local/sbin i.e binary downloads and locally compiled programs. This rule is commonly ignored though its a sensible distinction.
So, in general, the /usr partition.should. be exec rather than noexec. Martin Itzamna. I have spent hours looking for a solution through fixing the Nautilus file access bug, but I ended up devising a workaround. If, for example, I want to run Neverwinter Nights II in the /games/nwn2/ directory, I simply copy the required DLLs into the directory and set the WINEPREFIX environment variable for that particular Wine session: Code: WINEPREFIX=/games/nwn2/ wine nwn2.exe Of course, don't forget adding DLL overrides with the correct environment variable: Code: WINEPREFIX=/games/nwn2/ winecfg Problem solved. I hope this is of use to anyone. Where were they before?
Is /games on a different partition? - -Austin Itzamna.
Hi, I am running gentoo with kenel 3.06 and VB 4.0.12. Created a Winxp Guest with the folowing steps. VBoxManage createvm -name 'WinXP1' -ostype WindowsXP -register -basefolder /mnt/VM/winxp/ 2. VBoxManage modifyvm 'WinXP1' -memory 256 -acpi on -boot1 dvd -nic1 nat 3. VBoxManage createhd -filename '/mnt/VM/winxp/WinXP1.vdi' -size 15000 4. VBoxManage storagectl 'WinXP1' -name 'IDE Controller' -add ide -controller PIIX4 5.
VBoxManage storageattach 'WinXP1' -storagectl 'IDE Controller' -port 0 -device 0 -type hdd -medium '/mnt/VM/winxp/WinXP1.vdi' 6. VBoxManage storageattach 'WinXP1' -storagectl 'IDE Controller' -port 0 -device 1 -type dvddrive -medium /media/sdd1/software/dewindowsxpprofessionalwithservicepack3x86cdvlx14-73985.iso Everything went well and the WinXP is able to start Headless. Changed the nic1 to bridged mode: Code: VBoxManage modifyvm 'WinXP1' -memory 256 -acpi on -boot1 dvd -nic1 bridged Trying to start Guest leads to the following error: Code: vdr # VBoxHeadless -startvm 'WinXP1' Oracle VM VirtualBox Headless Interface 4.0.12 (C) 2008-2011 Oracle Corporation All rights reserved. VRDE server is listening on port 3389. Error: failed to start machine. Error message: Failed to open/create the internal network 'HostInterfaceNetworking-' (VERRINVALIDPARAMETER). Unknown error creating VM (VERRINVALIDPARAMETER) Any idea how to get bridged mode for nic1 up and running?
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Volunteer Posts: 17800 Joined: 17. Mar 2008, 13:41 Location: /dev/random Primary OS: Debian other VBox Version: PUEL Guest OSses: Windows XP, Windows 7, Linux. Tried this as well. Bubba@sc430:$ VBoxManage modifyvm 'CentOS6.3' -memory 1024 -acpi on -boot1 dvd -nic1 bridged -bridgeadapter1 eth0 bubba@sc430:$ VBoxManage startvm 'CentOS6.3' -type headless Waiting for VM 'CentOS6.3' to power on. VBoxManage: error: Failed to open/create the internal network 'HostInterfaceNetworking-' (VERRINVALIDPARAMETER). VBoxManage: error: Failed to attach the network LUN (VERRINVALIDPARAMETER) VBoxManage: error: Details: code NSERRORFAILURE (0x80004005), component Console, interface IConsole bubba@sc430:$ Posts: 2 Joined: 8. Dec 2012, 11:35.