chris@oldkenny:~$ wine --version
wine-5.8 (Staging)
chris@oldkenny:~$ wineboot
wine: created the configuration directory '/home/chris/.wine'
002c:err:module:__wine_process_init failed to load L"C:\\windows\\system32\\wineboot.exe", error c0000018
0024:err:environ:run_wineboot failed to start wineboot c0000018
0024:fixme:winediag:start_process Wine Staging 5.8 is a testing version containing experimental patches.
0024:fixme:winediag:start_process Please mention your exact version when filing bug reports on winehq.org.
0034:err:module:__wine_process_init failed to load L"C:\\windows\\system32\\wineboot.exe", error c0000018
0024:err:wineboot:main failed to restart 64-bit L"C:\\windows\\system32\\wineboot.exe", err 487
003c:err:module:__wine_process_init failed to load L"C:\\windows\\system32\\explorer.exe", error c0000018
Fresh prefix, as you can see, and it does not matter what I try to run, it always fails in this way Existing prefixes still seem to work (including wineboot).
Does the problem exist in the winehq-devel packages also, or is it staging only?
Hm, looks like it's staging-only (I even switched back and forth between winehq-devel and winehq-staging a couple of times).
Do you want me to try the downgrade back to 5.7 as well? I'm just asking because downgrading packages on Debian-based systems has been ... hairy for me in the past.
Can confirm with winehq-staging for fedora 32 GNOME (Wayland session)
WINEPREFIX=~/.testwine winecfg
002c:err:module:__wine_process_init failed to load L"C:\\windows\\system32\\wineboot.exe", error c0000018
0024:err:environ:run_wineboot failed to start wineboot c0000018
0024:fixme:actctx:parse_depend_manifests Could not find dependent assembly L"Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls" (6.0.0.0)
0034:err:module:__wine_process_init failed to load L"C:\\windows\\system32\\explorer.exe", error c0000018
0024:fixme:winediag:start_process Wine Staging 5.8 is a testing version containing experimental patches.
0024:fixme:winediag:start_process Please mention your exact version when filing bug reports on winehq.org.
003c:fixme:actctx:parse_depend_manifests Could not find dependent assembly L"Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls" (6.0.0.0)
003c:err:winediag:nodrv_CreateWindow Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded.
003c:err:winediag:nodrv_CreateWindow The explorer process failed to start.
I can confirm that this is still an issue with Wine Staging 5.8. I can see that the commit to fix this was already submitted (not sure if this is just a fix for Macs but I am currently running Ubuntu 20.04.) Any ideas when this will be moved to a new tag Wine 5.9?
Wine 5.8 works fine when you use a win32 arch, but not a win64.
Same issue with Wine-Staging 5.9 here on Fedora 32, I can't make a 64bit prefix but I noticed I can create 32bit ones
wine: created the configuration directory '/home/lemonzest/.wine'
002c:err:module:__wine_process_init failed to load L"C:\\windows\\system32\\wineboot.exe", error c0000018
0024:err:environ:run_wineboot failed to start wineboot c0000018
0024:fixme:winediag:start_process Wine Staging 5.9 is a testing version containing experimental patches.
0024:fixme:winediag:start_process Please mention your exact version when filing bug reports on winehq.org.
0034:err:module:__wine_process_init failed to load L"C:\\windows\\system32\\wineboot.exe", error c0000018
0024:err:wineboot:main failed to restart 64-bit L"C:\\windows\\system32\\wineboot.exe", err 487
003c:err:module:__wine_process_init failed to load L"C:\\windows\\system32\\explorer.exe", error c0000018
Sorry for the 3 posts in a row but it appears the actual files in .wine aren't being populated properly. You can install wine-staging 5.7 run winecfg to create your prefix then upgrade to 5.9 staging and it works fine.
If you create a prefix with 5.8/5.9 there are basically 0 files in the windows etc directory, so if you have a correctly populated prefix then it works fine.