wine totally stopped working today

[udippel]

After some years on wine, this morning when starting up, I got a notification (kubuntu 14.4) that wineserver had problems with starting.
Since then, it doesn't do anything. I was trying to start WINWORD.EXE, didn't. But even notepad did not start. So I went to the command line, and it just returns:

$ wine /home/mine/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Microsoft Office/Office12/WINWORD.EXE
$ wine --version
wine-1.6.2
$ wine --help
Usage: wine PROGRAM [ARGUMENTS...] Run the specified program
wine --help Display this help and exit
wine --version Output version information and exit
$ which wine
/usr/bin/wine
$ ls -l /usr/bin/wine
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9748 Apr 5 2014 /usr/bin/wine

Almost all other 'wine' programs also just return:
$ wineserver
$ winepath
fixme:ole:CoInitializeSecurity (0x45ae08,-1,(nil),(nil),6,2,(nil),64,(nil)) - stub!
fixme:ole:RemUnknown_QueryInterface No interface for iid {00000019-0000-0000-c000-000000000046}
err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {24e669e1-e90f-4595-a012-b0fd3ccc5c5a} not registered
err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {24e669e1-e90f-4595-a012-b0fd3ccc5c5a} could be created for context 0x1
$ winemine
$ winetricks
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wine cmd.exe /c echo '%ProgramFiles%' returned empty string
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What has gone wrong? Between yesterday and today, I got the normal apt-get update && upgrade, though wine was not involved.

What to do next?

Thanks in advance,

Uwe

[BarrRobot]

Exactly the same for me on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
I did the normal Ubuntu update late yesterday at approx 2330 UTC on 2015-07-28 and Wine failed immediately on restarting following the update. It was working properly before that update, which included a Kernel update (significantly?).

I removed and reinstalled Wine from Ubuntu software centre, but no change.

My suspicion is the update broke Wine.

[dajare]

See the thread in the Linux forum. Also, some help posted in AskUbuntu.

[BarrRobot]

What to do next?

For me, booting Ubuntu using the previous kernel version immediately allowed WINE to run as normal. Obviously this is not a permanent nor satisfactory solution, and appears to confirm my suspicion that a change to the Ubuntu kernel is the cause.

I've also posted on the Ubuntu 'Installation & Upgrades' forum.

[starkiller]

hi, i guess i have the same problem... thx for the links provided. I will keep you updated

[starkiller]

alright, just now an upgrade was released incl. a necessary restart and now it works again for me! So if you have the same problem: upgrade! terminal command = "sudo apt-get upgrade" (without "..." )

best regards