Wine completely stopped working.

**brunomandaloriano** · July 30th, 2015

Hi, The problem is happening at a PC running Ubuntu 12.04.5 64bit, wine simply stopped working, No updates, nothing.
It was Wine 1.4 I updated to 1.6 without success, deleted the windows folder but it's a global problem it happens with all user of the system. sometimes it pops some messages about wineserver crashing. No output is given when I run most of the wine components:

Code:

1:~$ wine /opt/photo3/kids.exe 
:~$ wine /opt/photo3/kids.exe 
:~$ winetricks 
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wine cmd.exe /c echo '%ProgramFiles%' returned empty string
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:~$ wineconsole 
:~$ winecfg 
:~$ wineserver 
:~$ winepath 
err:process:start_wineboot failed to start wineboot, err 1359
:~$ wineboot

**kc1di** · July 31st, 2015

Hello brunomandaloriano,

Try this from a terminal.

Code:

sudo apt-get purge wine

Then

Code:

sudo apt-get install wine

see if it will work now.

**Simon_Tomoko** · July 31st, 2015

First you are certain the program you want to run is located in; /opt/photo3/kids.exe ?

The reason I ask is, most Windows programs are stored in $HOME/.wine/drive_c/
I would move/copy it to $HOME/.wine/drive_c/photo3/kids.exe

Second from those prompts I would purge the wine and reinstall 1.7.44-amd64, you can find it here.

Third read my tutorial about my non-evasive procedure to install WINE.

Let me know how it goes.

**Paulo_Bergo** · July 31st, 2015

Hi.
My Wine stoped too, since the updates of jul, 28 (Xubuntu 14).
I've tried to reinstall but it didn't fix it.
I noticed the same problem on Lubuntu 15.04 after updating and installing Lubuntu and updating at the same time.
Reinstall didn't fix...
I'll try to reinstall 1.7.44...
Thanks!

**Paulo_Bergo** · July 31st, 2015

Hi.
After successfully installation of 1.7.44 the problem continues.

Typing

bergo@P01157220:~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/EditPlus 3$
wine editplus.exe

doesn't open the program and

dmesg

Leads to this result

[71956.984429] wineserver[25842]: segfault at 71af2d0 ip 00000000071af2d0 sp 000000002598b8c0 error 14 in ld-2.19.so[7ff8071ae000+23000]

and

wineserver -p

Leads to crash: "sorry, wine64-preloader stopped working..."

**Paulo_Bergo** · July 31st, 2015

Hi

New update!

Applied... restart... and voilá! Wine working find again!

Solved!

**Simon_Tomoko** · August 1st, 2015

Good to hear. I think your wine might have been still active in memory? That is just a guess. I have some programs that have barked at me. I look through open processes and see that WINE didn't close down 100%. So I end up killing the process or doing a restart.

**brunomandaloriano** · August 5th, 2015

Originally Posted by kc1di

Hello brunomandaloriano,
Try this from a terminal.

Code:

sudo apt-get purge wine

Then

Code:

sudo apt-get install wine

see if it will work now.

Thanks, that was the first thing i tried, without success

Originally Posted by Simon_Tomoko

First you are certain the program you want to run is located in; /opt/photo3/kids.exe ?

The reason I ask is, most Windows programs are stored in $HOME/.wine/drive_c/
I would move/copy it to $HOME/.wine/drive_c/photo3/kids.exe

Second from those prompts I would purge the wine and reinstall 1.7.44-amd64, you can find it here.
Third read my tutorial about my non-evasive procedure to install WINE.
Let me know how it goes.

Thanks. First: Yes, it is an specific application that I use at my company, I had to make some adaptations and cretated an script to install it under Ubunttu, I decided to keep the executables at this folder. Second: Tried That without success.

Originally Posted by Paulo_Bergo

Hi
New update!
Applied... restart... and voilá! Wine working find again!
Solved!

Yeah, that worked for me to, I have others PC running Ubuntu 12.04 and it didn't happen to them, the only difference is that they are 32bit.

Originally Posted by Simon_Tomoko

Good to hear. I think your wine might have been still active in memory? That is just a guess. I have some programs that have barked at me. I look through open processes and see that WINE didn't close down 100%. So I end up killing the process or doing a restart.

I do not think so, I restart the PC a lot when I had the problem it seems that it was an problematic update but I can not be more specific since I did not investigate it more.

**monkeybrain20122** · August 5th, 2015

Probably the latest kernel update was the culprit https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...6/+bug/1479040

If this is the issue booting into the previous kernel should work.