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Hiya after patching last night, my game starting having some issues let me explain.

When i double click the icon the game does not load, just says that there is no windows program configures to open this type of file, at this point it also changed the wow icon to the wine icon.
after digging around a bit i noticed, that the permissions in the warcraft folder /home/saec/.cxgames/win2000/drive_c/Program Files/World Of Warcraft to be exact has been changed to nill the folder is locked and my user has no access to it, i change them back to normal and launch the loader, but as soon as i do this the permissions go back to nill, i have to manually change the permissions everytime i load any part of wow.

any ideas?

This is a bit worrisome. Can you raise a support ticket?

With it, include the output (as an attachment) of 'glxinfo'

Also, include your OS specs (distro flavour, version, window manager, compiz yes/no, selinux or apparmour yes/no)?

We'll get right on looking into it as soon as we can set up an environment similar to yours!

ticket opened 770279

didnt open it before since there were a few opened, but figured diferent boxes so there it is

I am having the same problem with the icon changing into a wine bottle and an error message saying "No windows program is configured to open this application" when I try to run World of Warcraft on Ubuntu 9.04.

I had it Wow running perfectly until my HD crashed. After installing the new HD, Fresh install of Ubuntu 9.04, and Crossover Games and now WOW will not run. Each DVD seems to install correctly, everything seems normal until you get to the end and the WOW updater is supposed to launch and download the updated tools and patches. Furthermore I had the updater running after one install attempt and after downloading the Wow client patches the install went bad and gave me the "No windows program configured to run this type of file error.
Another error message appeared this morning and I sent that language to the trial at codeweavers email.
I also looked in the CX Games configuration to see if anything was obviously amiss and like Louis said all the permissions for the file types were removed or set to ignor. I tried resetting them but it didn't help.
I also tried to run launcher.exe to WOW manually thinking maybe the install was good but the shorcuts were just messed up, that did'nt work.

Blizzard pushed out a "tools patch" last night that caused weird problems for folks with native WoW clients.

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=21038224480&sid=1&pageNo=1

So far the tickets I've gotten on this sound like a broken desktop icon to WoW.exe or the WoW launcher.exe. Please try using Crossover Games Run Command to start the launcher.exe or the regular wow.exe and see if that gets it going. If so you can use the Run Command program to generate a new desktop icon.

If you're still unable to get either program to start check your WoW folder and pitch any downloaded patch files located there, and try re-running the launcher.exe as it might have a partial patch. Let me know if it's still not working.

Thanks,
Twinkie Ninja

Crossover Games run command will note let you run launcher.exe or any file in the c:\program files\worldofwarcraft folder, you can't even access it. I get a message that I do not have permission to access that folder? wat? lol

This morning after installing all 3 WOW DvDs, when I tried to play it had a message "symbol table unmapped, unmapped symbol substitution, Missing symbol, missing original install path"

I should add that I uninstalled WOW and I got a log saying that this whole long list of WOW files did not exist at the end of the uninstall. ?
Which is funny because I observed each of the DVDs and their installers run last night and everything seemed normal, no gliches. I have tried uninstalling and reinstallig CX Games and WOW several times yesterday, sometimes I get the updater to run and it downloads all the patches including the big 3.2 XX 1.3 Gig patch, but then for some reason in the end wow still wont launch. And during other installs the updater wont even run or my Burning Crusade and Wrath installs disappear after installing them and all cxgames shows is an asterik showing the original wow is installed.

very confusing! Until yesterday when my HD crashed and I installed a new one I had a fresh install of Ubuntu with nothing but cxgames and WOW installed and it ran beautifully :(

please advise thanks

Shut off AppArmor if it's running and re-chown your WoW bottle (~/.cxgames/(bottle). Could be something in the update process tweaked AppArmor.

Is AppArmor part of Ubuntu? How do I access it? I will look and try. TY

yes Apparmor is part of the ubuntu distro, to disable it try running

sudo /etc/init.d/apparmor stop

this will stop the service

I am having the same issue. I did not patch last night, however, this evening when I got home I was able to launch the WOW launcher on the first attempt. The game never launched. I went to launch it again and ran into the "There is no windows program configured to open this type of file."

I uninstalled CXgames, reinstalled. My bottles were restored and my desktop icons were restored. However I still cannot launch the game. Same error as mentioned above.

One thing I did notice was the file permissions are funky when doing a long listing in Ubuntu.

jeffrey@desktop:~/.cxgames/win2000/drive_c/Program Files$ ls -l
total 24
drwxr-xr-x  4 jeffrey jeffrey 4096 2009-09-18 15:32 Common Files
drwxr-xr-x  2 jeffrey jeffrey 4096 2009-09-19 08:59 Curse
drwxr-xr-x  2 jeffrey jeffrey 4096 2009-09-18 11:55 Internet Explorer
drwxr-xr-x  3 jeffrey jeffrey 4096 2009-09-18 11:55 Netscape
drwxr-xr-x 12 jeffrey jeffrey 4096 2009-11-08 19:30 Steam
d----wS---  8 jeffrey jeffrey 4096 2009-11-10 17:22 World of Warcraft
jeffrey@desktop:~/.cxgames/win2000/drive_c/Program Files$ sudo chmod 777 -R World\ of\ Warcraft/
jeffrey@desktop:~/.cxgames/win2000/drive_c/Program Files$ ls -l
total 24
drwxr-xr-x  4 jeffrey jeffrey 4096 2009-09-18 15:32 Common Files
drwxr-xr-x  2 jeffrey jeffrey 4096 2009-09-19 08:59 Curse
drwxr-xr-x  2 jeffrey jeffrey 4096 2009-09-18 11:55 Internet Explorer
drwxr-xr-x  3 jeffrey jeffrey 4096 2009-09-18 11:55 Netscape
drwxr-xr-x 12 jeffrey jeffrey 4096 2009-11-08 19:30 Steam
drwxrwsrwx  8 jeffrey jeffrey 4096 2009-11-10 17:22 World of Warcraft
jeffrey@desktop:~/.cxgames/win2000/drive_c/Program Files$ sudo chmod +x -R World\ of\ Warcraft/
jeffrey@desktop:~/.cxgames/win2000/drive_c/Program Files$ ls -l
total 24
drwxr-xr-x  4 jeffrey jeffrey 4096 2009-09-18 15:32 Common Files
drwxr-xr-x  2 jeffrey jeffrey 4096 2009-09-19 08:59 Curse
drwxr-xr-x  2 jeffrey jeffrey 4096 2009-09-18 11:55 Internet Explorer
drwxr-xr-x  3 jeffrey jeffrey 4096 2009-09-18 11:55 Netscape
drwxr-xr-x 12 jeffrey jeffrey 4096 2009-11-08 19:30 Steam
drwxrwsrwx  8 jeffrey jeffrey 4096 2009-11-10 17:22 World of Warcraft

What the heck is the S???

I forgot to add, I shutdown apparmor prior to making the above changes.

Another edit to add: After making the above changes I was able to launch the wow launcher again, however it crashed and I was unable to play.

The permissions now again look like this:

jeffrey@desktop:~/.cxgames/win2000/drive_c/Program Files$ ls -l
total 24
drwxr-xr-x  4 jeffrey jeffrey 4096 2009-09-18 15:32 Common Files
drwxr-xr-x  2 jeffrey jeffrey 4096 2009-09-19 08:59 Curse
drwxr-xr-x  2 jeffrey jeffrey 4096 2009-09-18 11:55 Internet Explorer
drwxr-xr-x  3 jeffrey jeffrey 4096 2009-09-18 11:55 Netscape
drwxr-xr-x 12 jeffrey jeffrey 4096 2009-11-08 19:30 Steam
d----wS---  8 jeffrey jeffrey 4096 2009-11-10 17:22 World of Warcraft
jeffrey@desktop:~/.cxgames/win2000/drive_c/Program Files$ ps -ef|grep apparmor
jeffrey   4989  2984  0 17:44 pts/1    00:00:00 grep --color=auto apparmor

Thanks for the info on AppArmor. I actually disabled it and uninstalled/unloaded it prior to installing
CX Games or WOW, so...I don't know what to think.

What is the exact command line to try to restore permissions? (please be specific Im fairly new to linux)
Thanks

Here's what I am getting at the end of the entire WOW install after the updater downloads updated tools
"Missing Symbol::OringinalInstallPath Symbol Table:Unmapped Symbol Substitution" ?

a workaround, annoying yes but lets people play
open your bottle folder were u have wow installed

mine is
/home/saec/.cxgames/win2000/drive_c/Program Files/World of Warcraft

giving myself folder permissions lets me run the loader, this will remove the permissions.
reassign the permissions on the folder with the loader running, after u give yourself permissions again click on the play/load button this will load the game, and u can play just fine. that is until u shutdown you will have to do everything i just said here to play again.

i know its annoying but it lets you play for now.

Please show me the command line syntax to do that, I get by, but I'm no command line expert! lol

easiest way is, Places > Home Folder > View > Show Hidden Files from there just find the .cxgames folder

if u wanna command line it youll do this:

1. Open terminal
2. chmod 777 "/home/saec/.cxgames/win2000/drive_c/Program Files/World of Warcraft"
3. launch loader
4. chmod 777 "/home/saec/.cxgames/win2000/drive_c/Program Files/World of Warcraft"
5. play game

chmod 777 will give everygroup create and delete permissions
since it will reset anyway i used that
will probably need to add sudo to the chmod
and remember to change the link in between the " " to werever youre wow is installed

Thank you

775 wouldn't be enough? and perhaps a:

sudo chown -R $USER "$HOME/.cxgames/win2000/drive_c/Program Files"
chmod 775 "$HOME/.cxgames/win2000/drive_c/Program Files/World of Warcraft"

My SysAdmin side just cringes at the thought of 777 permission even on a desktop system.

Anyway, whatever works for you. :)

We are waiting to see if Blizzard will amend this issue:

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=21038224480&sid=1&pageNo=1

While we wait our suggested workaround is a combination of the suggestions provided here, many thanks to you!

Our current work around is:

1. Open terminal
2. chmod 775 "/home/<username>/.cxgames/win2000/drive_c/Program Files/World of
   Warcraft"
3. launch loader
4. chmod 775 "/home/<username>/.cxgames/win2000/drive_c/Program Files/World of
   Warcraft"
5. play game

We do have an internal bug for this problem, if you would like to be added to it (it will be silently closed if Blizzard fixes this), please write us (support ticket or info@codeweavers.com) and ask. Bug 5798.

Our apologies for the inconvenience.

Digging deeper, that S flag on the directory permissions is Set-GID, so that any file created in that directory will be given the same group as the parent folder.

I think you can cancel the flag with "chmod g-s (directory)".

You may also want to do a "chmod -R g-s (directory)" to clear that setting on any folders inside the WoW directory too.

After that do the regular "chmod 755" commands Caron listed and hopefully the permissions stick, and don't reset after running WoW.

Caron Wills wrote:

1. Open terminal
2. chmod 775 "/home/<username>/.cxgames/win2000/drive_c/Program
   Files/World of
   Warcraft"
3. play game

Ok, so apparently this hasn't fixed it yet. We think wow.exe or launcher.exe are trying to do some Windows file permission commands and its being misinterpreted by Crossover and mucking up WoW's directory permissions.

We're running more testing in-house to try and get this cleared up as soon as we can. In the meantime please just chmod your directory manually and that'll get WoW started once before it resets.

chmod 775 "/home/<username>/.cxgames/win2000/drive_c/Program Files/World of Warcraft"

then use Crossover Run Command, pick your WoW bottle, wow.exe and fire the game up. Bypass the launcher.

Ah ha, it affects Wine too, http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20643

Note: once you have finished chmod'ing the dirs, run WoW.exe directly. Each time you run Launcher.exe it will re-muck up the directory permissions again.