Wine suddenly failing to start any of my bottles

[Detzi]

Hi,
my wine installation suddently broke with these error messages:

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WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=~/tools/ise82/ winecfg
Fontconfig error: failed reading config file: /etc/fonts/conf.avail: Is a directory (errno 21)
wine: could not open working directory L"unix\\home\\matthias\\Downloads\\EDK82\\EDK8.2\\platform\\lin\\", starting in the Windows directory.
Fontconfig error: failed reading config file: /etc/fonts/conf.avail: Is a directory (errno 21)
Fontconfig error: failed reading config file: /etc/fonts/conf.avail: Is a directory (errno 21)
Fontconfig error: failed reading config file: /etc/fonts/conf.avail: Is a directory (errno 21)
0048:err:ole:StdMarshalImpl_MarshalInterface Failed to create ifstub, hr 0x80004002
0048:err:ole:CoMarshalInterface Failed to marshal the interface {6d5140c1-7436-11ce-8034-00aa006009fa}, hr 0x80004002
0048:err:ole:apartment_get_local_server_stream Failed: 0x80004002

I have several wine "bottles" that i have created myself and without any special tool. Each of them is broken and wont start the respective application. I Create my bottles/install the programms usually something along the lines of this:

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mkdir ~/.wine/LTspice
WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=~/.wine/LTspice/ winecfg
WINEPREFIX=~/.wine/LTspice/ wine ./LTspiceXVII.exe

adjusting just the dpi setting with winecfg. How can i fix this?

I tried to remove wine completely with:

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sudo apt-get --purge remove wine wine64 libwine fonts-wine

and

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sudo apt remove --purge wine

i also tried to reconfigure the fonts

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dpkg --force-depends --purge fontconfig-config
aptitude install fontconfig-config
dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig-config

in winecfg i can see under "Drives" that the mount manager failed to start as described here viewtopic.php?t=34631 and here https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=198356. The wine bottles all worked before and just stopped working. I cant remember what could have triggered that.

[Detzi]

Oh and i forgott to add that i am using Ubuntu 22.04 LTS with:

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wine --version
wine-6.0.3 (Ubuntu 6.0.3~repack-1)

[jkfloris]

Which Wine packages do you have installed?

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dpkg -l | grep wine

If you are using Debian/Ubuntu packages, make sure you have the following packages installed:

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fonts-wine 
libwine:amd64
libwine:i386
wine
wine32:i386
wine32-preloader:i386
wine64
wine64-preloader

Do you have the same problem when you use the WineHQ Wine Packages?

[Detzi]

I had the packages installed but the preloader ones. I installed them but with no effect. Using the WineHQ Wine Packages fixed the problem leaving just the font errors.

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Fontconfig error: failed reading config file: /etc/fonts/conf.avail: Is a directory (errno 21)
Fontconfig error: failed reading config file: /etc/fonts/conf.avail: Is a directory (errno 21)
Fontconfig error: failed reading config file: /etc/fonts/conf.avail: Is a directory (errno 21)
Fontconfig error: failed reading config file: /etc/fonts/conf.avail: Is a directory (errno 21)

can i also somehow fix those? Thanks a lot for helping me out.