[SOLVED] World Of Warcraft Permissions Problem

[jwright70]

Hi guys,

I'm new to Linux and have really no idea how to do anything. I somehow managed to use wine and install my favorite game "World of Warcraft" and its 2 expansions. The last expansion " Wrath of the Lich King" has an incripted dvd or something, so I just downloaded the installer off the website. Everything went surprisingly smooth. The problem is, now that the last expansion is installed wine will not run the program. It says permissions denied and I noticed the folder has a padlock and a X on it. How do I fix this? Sorry if there is another thread about this but i was unable to find one.

[0cton]

either you installed it with root and you are trying to run it without it.
Either it does not have executable permission
chmod +x yourfile
or right click and check give permission to execute (or something like that)

[ubuser76]

This problem actually started with the latest patch that Blizzard tried to push out. Fix your folder permissions with chmod
chmod 755 "/home/<user>/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/World of Warcraft"


After you have done that don't use the Launcher.exe app to start Warcraft, instead launch it with the Wow.exe file
wine "/home/<user>/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/World of Warcraft/Wow.exe"

[jwright70]

Thanks alot. Chmod did the trick. It's crashing when I first start it but it'll let me run it on a second try. So I'll have to figure that out but at least I can run it now. Thanks again

[Rayve]

If you run it from the terminal via command line, the output there may tell you some interesting things about what could be causing it to crash.

I had similar issues and changing permissions did the trick. It runs fine on the first try.

[Rrasyrogenees]

i am curious to know why Blizzard thinks they need to cut permissions for Linux users like this... first it was the WotLK expansion and now this recent patch (tuesday, 11-10-09) that they make it difficult for linux users.. but some companies seem to be afraid of linux and the implications that they will not make as much money by limiting what is available... oh well... linux will get the majority market share in the future...

[jwright70]

I don't know why it crashed that first time. I added the line for opengl in the config file and everything is working flawlessly. Now I can say goodbye to windows for good.

[dardack]

Yea i noticed the most recent tiny patch made the launcher chance the folder permissions (which sux), but not the group/user owner (which is good). So after a patch the launcher usually auto runs, just once you close the launcher you have to go back and chmod u+xrw the wow folder again.

[arkanabar]

So the launcher is going to re-wreck the WoW folder permissions each and every time I run it? If so, blech.

[Rayve]

Originally Posted by arkanabar So the launcher is going to re-wreck the WoW folder permissions each and every time I run it? If so, blech.

I don't use the launcher, personally, so I can't say if it will change the WoW folder permissions every time it runs or only after an update.