wine: exists lstat socket : No such file or directory

hisnumber666 · 05-01-2006, 03:05 AM

i cant run wine right now. i am root.
here is what i get when i run wine
wine: exists lstat socket : No such file or directory

how do i fix this? this is a common problem but nobody explained how to fix it.

hisnumber666 · 05-02-2006, 03:35 AM

i guess i will go ahead and answer my own question.
i was using a libc6 from a testing repository which was causing many of my troubles. if thats the problem you have... you have an option to break you system (literally, you system does not live without libc), downgrading involves remove and install which means while you remove it will remove half the system (as it wanted to do for me). i chose to ignore dependencies and remove it. instantly my system became unusable (libraries required by bash were missing). you will have to manually put those libraries in to be able to chroot into your system and install a stable libc6.
wine and winex no longer give me that error.
just for the record i have libc6 2.3.2 right now.