Problem with WoW and Wine, spamming syslog and filling whole disk's space.

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Problem with WoW and Wine, spamming syslog and filling whole disk's space.

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Hello!

I am experiencing a very weird issue. My World of Warcraft client (WoTLK expansion) is spamming my /var/log/syslog, /var/log/messages and /var/log/user.log with the following:

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Oct  9 12:37:17 debian Wow.desktop[5274]: 0074:err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {bcde0395-e52f-467c-8e3d-c4579291692e} not registered
Oct  9 12:37:17 debian Wow.desktop[5274]: 0074:err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {bcde0395-e52f-467c-8e3d-c4579291692e} could be created for context 0x1
Oct  9 12:37:17 debian Wow.desktop[5230]: 004e:err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {bcde0395-e52f-467c-8e3d-c4579291692e} not registered
Oct  9 12:37:17 debian Wow.desktop[5230]: 004e:err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {bcde0395-e52f-467c-8e3d-c4579291692e} could be created for context 0x1
Oct  9 12:37:17 debian Wow.desktop[5230]: 004e:err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {bcde0395-e52f-467c-8e3d-c4579291692e} not registered
Oct  9 12:37:17 debian Wow.desktop[5230]: 004e:err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {bcde0395-e52f-467c-8e3d-c4579291692e} could be created for context 0x1
Oct  9 12:37:17 debian Wow.desktop[5253]: 0061:err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {bcde0395-e52f-467c-8e3d-c4579291692e} not registered
Oct  9 12:37:17 debian Wow.desktop[5253]: 0061:err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {bcde0395-e52f-467c-8e3d-c4579291692e} could be created for context 0x1
Oct  9 12:37:17 debian Wow.desktop[5253]: 0061:err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {bcde0395-e52f-467c-8e3d-c4579291692e} not registered
Oct  9 12:37:17 debian Wow.desktop[5253]: 0061:err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {bcde0395-e52f-467c-8e3d-c4579291692e} could be created for context 0x1
I am using Debian 11 Bullseye and Wine: wine-5.0.3 (Debian 5.0.3-3).

Not really sure what to do, I have tried to redirect it to > /dev/null but doesn't work. It actually filled my whole disk space in few days (almost 200GB...). I that is the only error I see, it does the same if I open it via terminal.

My launcher:

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[Desktop Entry]
Name=World of Warcraft
Exec=wine "/home/basajaun/Games/World of Warcraft - WoTLK/Wow.exe"
Icon=/home/basajaun/Pictures/DesktopIcons/WoW_icon.svg
Type=Application
Categories=Wine;
In case it helps - the game works perfectly fine. Smooth and I can play without any problem, the issue is the crazy spam that makes my syslog, messages and user.log files be huge and fill my disk with 150 GB in just a couple of days.

Any ideas? Thank you!
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Re: Problem with WoW and Wine, spamming syslog and filling whole disk's space.

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You can suppress Wine's output entirely by running it with WINEDEBUG=-all.
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Re: Problem with WoW and Wine, spamming syslog and filling whole disk's space.

Post by basajaun »

Thank you!

Seems to work, but only when I do it from the command line manually, because the launcher seems to be broken now, how could I add it to the launcher?

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 Name=World of Warcraft
Exec=WINEDEBUG=-all wine "/home/basajaun/Games/World of Warcraft - WoTLK/Wow.exe"
Icon=/home/basajaun/Pictures/DesktopIcons/WoW_icon.svg
Type=Application
Categories=Wine; 
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Re: Problem with WoW and Wine, spamming syslog and filling whole disk's space.

Post by basajaun »

Got it working now, in case someone needs something similar in the future:

Thank you!

That worked. In case anyone needs something similar:

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Name=World of Warcraft
Exec=sh /pathtoyourscript.sh
Icon=/home/basajaun/Pictures/DesktopIcons/WoW_icon.svg
Type=Application
Categories=Wine; 
And the script:

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#!/bin/bash
WINEDEBUG=-all wine "/home/basajaun/Games/World of Warcraft - WoTLK/Wow.exe"
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