Newsleecher (2019) at startup splashscreen hidden

[maximilian1st]

Hi all,
I try launching NewsLeecher after installing it on an Ubuntu 18.04.3 with Wine 4.14 devel but the initial splash screen remains hidden and the console has these messages:

~$ wine .wine/drive_c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/NewsLeecher/NewsLeecher.exe
0009:fixme:thread:GetThreadUILanguage : stub, returning default language.
0009:fixme:nls:GetThreadPreferredUILanguages 00000038, 0x34d7f4, (nil) 0x34d81c
0009:fixme:nls:get_dummy_preferred_ui_language (0x38 0x34d7f4 (nil) 0x34d81c) returning a dummy value (current locale)
0009:fixme:nls:GetThreadPreferredUILanguages 00000038, 0x34d7f4, 0x169a680 0x34d81c
0009:fixme:nls:get_dummy_preferred_ui_language (0x38 0x34d7f4 0x169a680 0x34d81c) returning a dummy value (current locale)
0009:fixme:wtsapi:WTSRegisterSessionNotification Stub 0001007E 0x00000000
0009:fixme:uxtheme:BufferedPaintInit Stub ()
0009:err:winediag:SECUR32_initNTLMSP ntlm_auth was not found or is outdated. Make sure that ntlm_auth >= 3.0.25 is in your path. Usually, you can find it in the winbind package of your distribution.
0009:fixmeFileIconInit (true)
0009:fixmeSHGetKnownFolderIDList unsupported flags: 0x00001000
0009:fixmeSHGetKnownFolderIDList unsupported flags: 0x00001000
0009:fixmeSHGetKnownFolderIDList unsupported flags: 0x00001000
0009:fixme:d2d:d2d_factory_init Ignoring factory type 0x1.
0009:fixme:dwmapi:DwmIsCompositionEnabled 0034F7E8
0009:err:seh:setup_exception_record stack overflow 1644 bytes in thread 0009 eip 7bca9543 esp 00250cc4 stack 0x250000-0x251000-0x350000
^[
^C002b:fixme:console:CONSOLE_DefaultHandler Terminating process 8 on event 0

Does someone read something that could be helpful? Should it be launched with more verbose output to help out? It used to work 2 years ago. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Max.

[Bob Wya]

@maximilian1st

I presume you are testing the Newsleecher 8.0 Beta 1 release?

That's not a reliable way to start Windows applications with Wine.
You'd want something like:

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wine start 'C:\Program Files (x86)\NewsLeecher\NewsLeecher.exe'

See: Wine User's Guide: 3 Using Wine.

Maybe a Wine terminal log with:

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export WINEDEBUG=+timestamp,+tid,+loaddll,+module,+seh

would be more helpful?

Please see: WineHQ FAQ: 10.1.1 How can I get a debugging log (a.k.a. terminal output)?
- for the correct (/easier) way to get a Wine terminal log.

Also please, in future, use the forum Code tags:

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...

- when posting terminal commands and output inline.

Update:
FYI I got the application running with:

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wine reg.exe ADD "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\DllOverrides" "/v" "dxgi" "/t" "REG_SZ" "/d" ""
winetricks winxp

using a 64-bit WINEPREFIX, and Wine (or Wine Staging) 4.14

For some reason the application is trying to load DirectX 10 / 11 libraries (why on earth??)

Thanks
Bob

[DarkShadow44]

For some reason the application is trying to load DirectX 10 / 11 libraries (why on earth??)

It's not too uncommon anymore for applications to use DirectX to render their UI, sadly.

Do we have a bugreport for that issue already?

[Bob Wya]

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Do we have a bugreport for that issue yet?

Your wish is my command: Bug 47638 - Newsleecher 8.0 Beta 1 - will not start with win7+dxgi enabled (workaround as winxp).


Bob

[maximilian1st]

Hi,

thank you very much for your help, using your magic command lines I can start Newsleecher 8 beta 1, version 5 final and 7 final. I used all of them for a while and can confirm that all functions work as they did in wine 1.6 and 1.7. I will have a look at the app db and see if I can add some test results for the current stable wine.

I hope you can sort out this bug so that the app will work with no "trick" in the future.

[Bob Wya]

Hi,

thank you very much for your help, using your magic command lines I can start Newsleecher 8 beta 1, version 5 final and 7 final. I used all of them for a while and can confirm that all functions work as they did in wine 1.6 and 1.7. I will have a look at the app db and see if I can add some test results for the current stable wine.

I hope you can sort out this bug so that the app will work with no "trick" in the future.

No worries.

The bug, I raised, is the mechanism to document the path to finding a fix for the application. So it works OTTB. Any Wine developer can pick up this work.

Bob

[maximilian1st]

Thank you for your input, it worked like a charm until wine 5.0 was released as a stable version. It does not start anymore and shows a crash window unfortunately. This is the normal log I get when starting the app:

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002b:fixme:wtsapi:WTSRegisterSessionNotification Stub 00010078 0x00000000
002b:err:module:import_dll Library dxgi.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\d3d10_1.dll") not found
002b:err:module:import_dll Library dxgi.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\D3D11.DLL") not found
002b:err:module:import_dll Library D3D11.DLL (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\d3d10_1.dll") not found
002b:err:module:import_dll Library d3d10_1.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\windows\\system32\\d2d1.dll") not found
002b:fixme:wtsapi:WTSUnRegisterSessionNotification Stub 00010078
wine: Unhandled page fault on read access to 01758D28 at address 00408E26 (thread 002b), starting debugger...
002d:fixme:dbghelp:elf_search_auxv can't find symbol in module
002d:fixme:dbghelp:elf_search_auxv can't find symbol in module
002d:fixme:dbghelp:elf_search_auxv can't find symbol in module
002d:fixme:dbghelp:elf_search_auxv can't find symbol in module
002d:fixme:dbghelp:elf_search_auxv can't find symbol in module
002d:fixme:dbghelp:elf_search_auxv can't find symbol in module
002d:fixme:dbghelp:elf_search_auxv can't find symbol in module
002d:fixme:dbghelp:elf_search_auxv can't find symbol in module
002d:fixme:dbghelp:elf_search_auxv can't find symbol in module
002d:fixme:dbghelp:elf_search_auxv can't find symbol in module
002d:fixme:dbghelp:elf_search_auxv can't find symbol in module
002d:fixme:dbghelp:elf_search_auxv can't find symbol in module
002d:fixme:dbghelp:elf_search_auxv can't find symbol in module
002d:fixme:dbghelp:elf_search_auxv can't find symbol in module
002d:fixme:dbghelp:elf_search_auxv can't find symbol in module
002d:fixme:dbghelp:elf_search_auxv can't find symbol in module
002d:fixme:dbghelp:elf_search_auxv can't find symbol in module
002d:fixme:dbghelp:elf_search_auxv can't find symbol in module
002d:fixme:dbghelp:elf_search_auxv can't find symbol in module
002d:fixme:dbghelp:elf_search_auxv can't find symbol in module
002d:fixme:dbghelp:elf_search_auxv can't find symbol in module
002d:fixme:dbghelp:elf_search_auxv can't find symbol in module
002d:fixme:dbghelp:elf_search_auxv can't find symbol in module
002d:fixme:dbghelp:elf_search_auxv can't find symbol in module
002d:fixme:dbghelp:elf_search_auxv can't find symbol in module
002d:fixme:dbghelp:elf_search_auxv can't find symbol in module
002d:fixme:dbghelp:elf_search_auxv can't find symbol in module
002d:fixme:dbghelp:elf_search_auxv can't find symbol in module
002d:fixme:dbghelp:elf_search_auxv can't find symbol in module
002d:fixme:dbghelp:elf_search_auxv can't find symbol in module
002d:fixme:dbghelp:elf_search_auxv can't find symbol in module
002d:fixme:dbghelp:elf_search_auxv can't find symbol in module
002d:fixme:dbghelp:elf_search_auxv can't find symbol in module
002d:fixme:dbghelp:elf_search_auxv can't find symbol in module
002d:fixme:dbghelp:elf_search_auxv can't find symbol in module
002d:fixme:dbghelp:elf_search_auxv can't find symbol in module
002d:fixme:dbghelp:elf_search_auxv can't find symbol in module
002d:fixme:dbghelp:elf_search_auxv can't find symbol in module
002d:fixme:dbghelp:elf_search_auxv can't find symbol in module
002d:fixme:dbghelp:elf_search_auxv can't find symbol in module
002d:fixme:dbghelp:elf_search_auxv can't find symbol in module

The extended log, recorded in a file using the following command line as expressed above is about 3.5MB and I'm not sure I should post it here.

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export WINEDEBUG=+timestamp,+tid,+loaddll,+module,+seh

In the meantime I will google my way to installing and keeping an older version of wine 4.20.

I'll gladly help if I can.

[Bob Wya]

@maximilian1st

That's odd... My Newsleecher 64-bit WINEPREFIX with Newsleecher 8.0 Beta 1 still works OK, with Wine 5.1
I still need to use Windows XP and dxgi disabled.

I/ we can't really comment further, on your issues, without access to the "full" terminal log...
You could attach that to my existing bug report, I guess.

Bob

[maximilian1st]

Hi Bob,

thank you for the info that it works for you and it probably would here too but I got into a dependency problem with wine and deleted it completely and it won't install anymore even after trying many of the solutions found online. I am fed up hahahaha. Really. I spent way too much time trying to get it to work. I guess I will just wait for ubuntu 20.04 and hope it will just install out of the box.

Keep on coding
Max.

[JK1974]

Hi Bob,

I have the same problem like maximilian1st recently described.
Environment: dietpi, based on Debian Buster AMD64, and Newsleecher 8.0 beta 4.

I first tried the delivered packages, but those just installed WINE 4.0. I got around the splash screen with your hints, but after the main window opened, I got an exception of the application itself.

Then, I removed those packages again and removed the .wine folder. I added the latest Debian 10 WineHQ packages as described at https://wiki.winehq.org/Debian and viewtopic.php?f=8&t=32192 with the OBS repository added before the dl.winehq.org entry.
I first tried the stable 5.0 and then the devel 5.5, unfortunately without success: The splash screen is not even shown, and the console shows the error messages about missing dxgi.dll files etc. and especially tons of "elf_search_auxv can't find symbol in module".

The terminal log can be found at https://www.dropbox.com/s/9fl2q2lnajo2e ... 4.zip?dl=0 (seemed to be too big to be added as attachment here).

Thanks a lot in advance for your support!

Joerg

[Bob Wya]

@JK1974

Just to check you've set your WINEPREFIX to Windows XP as well (as disabling dxgi.dll):

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winetricks winxp

??

You can also try disabling d3d11.dll:

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wine reg.exe ADD "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\DllOverrides" "/v" "d3d11" "/t" "REG_SZ" "/d" ""

Bob

[endzone102]

I had to do a little drilling down (and probably one or two of these weren't really necessary) before I was able to get NewsLeecher 8.0 beta 4 working in Wine 5.17.1

wine reg.exe ADD "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\DllOverrides" "/v" "dxgi" "/t" "REG_SZ" "/d" ""
wine reg.exe ADD "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\DllOverrides" "/v" "d3d11" "/t" "REG_SZ" "/d" ""
wine reg.exe ADD "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\DllOverrides" "/v" "d3d10" "/t" "REG_SZ" "/d" ""
wine reg.exe ADD "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\DllOverrides" "/v" "d3d10_1" "/t" "REG_SZ" "/d" ""
wine reg.exe ADD "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\DllOverrides" "/v" "d2d1" "/t" "REG_SZ" "/d" ""

This was in addition to having to set it to Windows 7 in winecfg.

It's not quite all sunshine, though, as it's *continually* making the system noises for "unmaximizing", even when idle. It's really brutal. Additionally, it's always pushing itself to the top of the window stack, regardless of what I put over it.

Also, I had to change the desktop icon's launch location to point directly to the exe. Otherwise, it was firing up with no window at all.

Getting there, though!

[endzone102]

OK. I can't seem to do anything about the "unmaximizing" noises or the "always on top" issues. Oh, and it also re-centers itself.

Here are a few other issues that I found:

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I will get "Temporarily paused while decoding downloaded data" in the leeching status for each connection. It will sit there forever. I exit, wait a bit, which clears the status, but never exits. I then have to kill the process. Fortunately, it takes the TERM signal.

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The "Speed limit" is never reached, even when I push it down well below actual top speed. I know my connection can handle it, because I was using this same machine with windows, and had no issues with it hitting the max line.

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This happens fairly often. I can resume the queue with no problem, but have to repair the rar afterwards.
Bug ID:
83274872

Bug Data #1:
[ 20041103 ] - "20041103.part05.rar" assigned(ge) : -1 Error.toString : 0 - assigned(ge.extraData) : -1 - assigned(ge.extraData.dlParts) : 0

Bug Data #2:
Access violation at address 00D95A92 in module 'NewsLeecher.exe'. Read of address 00000008

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This didn't actually stop anything, it just popped up over and over and over again. It only did this for a few sessions, then it stopped happening.
Bug ID:
dcvjofnda

Bug Data #2:
Access violation at address 00D95790 in module 'NewsLeecher.exe'. Read of address 0000001D
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This one comes up when I try to delete entries from Unpacker, supersearch bookmarks, and sometimes from the Download queue. It will lock up, and then I get a Wine error when I exit, and I then have to kill the NewsLeecher process. This is especially problematic, since NewsLeecher will only run in XP mode.
Bug Data #1:
fdgsds43

Bug Data #2:
TTaskDialog requires Windows Vista or later
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This pops up over and over and over, but doesn't seem to be affecting anything. It was also only for a few sessions, and is gone now.
Bug ID:
plwofjric

Bug Data #1:
5

Bug Data #2:
Access violation at address 07F3CE12 in module 'libcrypto-1_1.dll'. Write of address 00000055


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