After installing the latest version of wine via command line and rebooted ubuntu, I was greeted by this message after typing my user/pass and logging in.
"User's $HOME/.dmrc file is being ignored. This prevents the default sessin and language from being saved. File should be owned by user and have 644 permissions. User's $HOME directory must be owned by user and not writable by other users."
I could login in OK, but something was clearly wrong and needed fixing. Change my name to your user name. Here's how to fix it:
sudo chmod 644 /home/craig/.dmrc
sudo chown craig /home/craig/.dmrc
sudo chmod -R 700 /home/craig
sudo chown -R craig /home/craig
(If you get permission errors when trying this then drop out of the GUI and into recovery mode. This can be done by pressing Esc on the grub screen and selecting the latest recovery version)
I'm not sure precisely why this error message started appearing, but it had something to do with the way I installed the latest wine. I did via command line and not by the package manager.
Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron