If you install a program using wine that wants to reboot, how do you restart wine and get the program you installed to recognize that the "system" has been restarted?

you should just be able to restart the program with "wine program" and it should act as if your did restart your system... I have never had a problem with this because when you stop using wine it is as if you did restart.

Okay, I'm rooting through your archives to try and find an answer to this very problem. I would have thought AquamaN was correct, but I cannot get this to work. I'm hoping I'm doing something wrong...

Essentially I need wine to 'think' it's been rebooted. Thats the short version.

Here comes the long version...

I installed a windows based CBT with wine. Everything seemed to go just fine, no errors or 'unexpected this or that'. UNTIL I went to run the program. THEN it tells me files are missing and I need to re-install. Well, after following the on-screen instructions, and the installation again goes off flawlessly, or appearantly so, it still has missing files when it comes time to run. I check the installation requirements, and lo and behold! IE5 or greater is REQUIRED for the program to operate. Now this is where I get in trouble. I get my trusty IE6SP1 cd and start the automated install... The CD was created with the IE-SDK. The install runs, and a 'reboot' is programed into the install, and the wine window quits. My othe wine programs work (not the CBT) but I cannot start iexplore.exe. So the installation needs to finish after the 'reboot', but how do you get wine to 'reboot' and finish the install?

If you are confused at this point, please accept my apologies. I'm confused as well, and will do my best to clarify the situation if requested.

Stats.
Mandrake 10.0
wine ver. 20040313
Dell Optiplex GX270
512 MB RAM
40GB HD
2.8Ghz Intel P4.

Thanks.

It's the "wineboot" command. Simple, eh?

It sounds simple... and I'm sure it's supposed to be, but when I type wineboot and the command line I get the following.
Sooo, either I don't have it installed, or it's not in my PATH, or there's more to it than just wineboot. Thanks for sparing my the RTFM.

How did you install wine? I compiled it from source, and running wineboot from the command line worked fine...

EDIT: Do you have the wineboot.exe.so in your wine place? Mine is /usr/local/lib/wine - it depends on where you installed wine.

I found wineboot in /usr/bin, but when I type or I still get So then I copied it to the /var/lib/wine directory (this is where my 'windows' is) and it still said cannot find wineboot.exe I tried as root as well. I hate it when something that is supposed to be simple, gives me grief.


Thanks for your patience.

wineboot is a script which basically runs 'wine wineboot.exe'

try (as root):
find / -name wineboot*

and tell me what it says.

BTW I'm in the awkward position of not having wine on LFS, which I'm using now, but only on slackware, so this is based on searches of my slackware files.

So if I am understanding you correctly... I still have to fine the "wineboot.exe' binary.

try it with wineboot.* instead of wineboot* it shouldnt make a difference but did for me...

if thats the same, then theres a problem with your wine installation - did you say how you installed it?

wineboot.* came up empty.

It was installed via an RPM from my Mandrake 10.0 CDs I'll try to check the contents of the RPM.

try downloading the source and installing that. im currently compiling it, so perhaps i can help you more when its finished.

Okay now you are starting to scare me. I'm a compiling virgin. Haven't had to cross that bridge yet.. I'll have to screw up the courage for that.

It's not really very hard, especially for wine. As long as you are happy with /usr/local as a prefix, just download it, extract it, then run tools/wineinstall and answer some easy questions, wait for a while, answer some more and tada!

ok, installed wine from source - wineboot works perfectly - just try the source. ill talk you through it if you want. u got msn?