hello;
every time i run wine i get this message:
Floating point exception


and when i run winecfg from run command it doesn't work?!
what have i missed?

Insufficient data at this time for accurate analysis.

please post full output as wel as computer archatecture, distrobution configuration, and method of install.

ok
1-full output:
[m-j@localhost ~]$ wine notepad
Floating point exception
[m-j@localhost ~]$

2-computer archatecture:
i686

3-distrobution:
mandriva

4-method of install:
rpm package

up up

Try and use source to install

i've had bugs in older versions of WINE

Do you get the same with:
wine notepad.exe
?

Have you copied user32.dll to the working directory?
http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iVersionId=1121

I just noticed there is a new RPM available for Mandriva: wine-0.9.38-mdv.i586.rpm.
There hadn't previously been a build since 0.9.30.

This command will tell you one of two things:
1) what version of Wine you are running, or 2) that your problem isn't with notepad but with Wine itself

thanx guys 4 the help i well try again and tell you with the Results

you forgot to format your harddisk first

reinstall windows 95 or even better, msdos

and then build back up from there

- perry

i think you'r right before i install linux i had a problem making more than one partition on the harddisk for installing linux and winows together with Magic partition (when i restarted the pc for changrs to take Affect it just stoped and i get a Black screen so i just installed linux Ignoring the error)
but i didn't understand what you mean by saying "reinstall windows 95 or even better, msdos

and then build back up from ther"?
Because i dont have much experience in formating

note: i just found out that when i try to install windows
it tell me Unknown partition try another (all three partitions have the same message)
Frankly im surprised of how u discovered that just by one error message

regards

Were you trying to run notepad.exe from a Windows partition? Why not run it from ~/.wine/drive_c/windows ?

when i run it from that directory i get the same message

Hey max020, you never told us the result from running: wine --version

I am wondering if the problem isn't notepad, but Wine itself.
If wine --version gives an error, then you know the whole Wine installation has a problem.

Edit: There are two dash characters in that command.

Hi there KenJackson,
sorry forgot to post it and the result from running: wine --version
is the same
[root@localhost m-j]# wine --version
Floating point exception
[root@localhost m-j]#


and yes the Wine installation has a problem

note:the name of the rpm file i downloaded is wine-0.9.38-mdv.i586.rpm

i didn't find one with i686 arch
and i just clicked on it and it told me the instalition is done
so how can it be that i didn't install it right.

and by the way i used back-track2 live cd distro wich have wine installed by default
(after i give up on mandriva).
and it worked just fine on back-track but
then another issue Shows up i get (the directory you have chosen don't have Enough space and the same message on all directory's i chose)when i try to install any of windows programm's in back-track.

i don't know is it just me or that wine is trying to annoy me?!
but i will not stop until i run wine properly sooner or later
with you'r help Of course
and thanx for the quick replay's and help

A full disk can cause all kinds of odd errors. Try this to see if your disk is full: If that's not the issue, you could take drastic action: delete your false C: drive and start over: