There was an innocuous-seeming update to Wine a few days ago, and upon attempting to play the one game I have installed via Wine, Runic Games’ astonishingly awesome dungeon-crawler, Torchlight, I found it suddenly mute. Which is not really how I like to play it. So I was perturbed.

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I was trying to mount a shared folder in an Arch Linux guest OS under VirtualBox and kept receiving the same enigmatic error.

The problem turned out to be, believe it or not, that the shared folder and the mount location had the same name.

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