32 bit app installer fails on latest releases

[NemoHic]

I have an old 32 bit piece of software from the late 90's that installs and runs without any problem with Wine 8.0 provided with Debian 12 Bookworm. It worked well with earlier Debian releases as well. Unfortunately, it fails with an app window titled "Critical" with the error "Unable to move data to installation directory" on later Wine releases (Debian testing/Trixie, Fedora 40, Ubuntu 24.0, the stable release on the winehq debian repo). The command and output on the installation attempt on Ubuntu 24.04 follow. I also ran with "WINEDEBUG=all wine setup.exe" but the output was rather intimidating.

Have I missed a new requirement for using the latest Wine releases? And what debug level should I use to provide a reasonable level output that will help understand what is going on?

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$ wine setup.exe
wine: created the configuration directory '/home/nemohic/.wine'
0054:err:ole:StdMarshalImpl_MarshalInterface Failed to create ifstub, hr 0x80004002
0054:err:ole:CoMarshalInterface Failed to marshal the interface {6d5140c1-7436-11ce-8034-00aa006009fa}, hr 0x80004002
0054:err:ole:apartment_get_local_server_stream Failed: 0x80004002
0050:err:ole:StdMarshalImpl_MarshalInterface Failed to create ifstub, hr 0x80004002
0050:err:ole:CoMarshalInterface Failed to marshal the interface {6d5140c1-7436-11ce-8034-00aa006009fa}, hr 0x80004002
0050:err:ole:apartment_get_local_server_stream Failed: 0x80004002
0054:err:ole:start_rpcss Failed to open RpcSs service
wine: configuration in L"/home/jwest/.wine" has been updated.
0154:err:seh:KiUserCallbackDispatcher ignoring exception
0154:err:seh:KiUserCallbackDispatcher ignoring exception
0154:err:seh:KiUserCallbackDispatcher ignoring exception
0154:err:seh:KiUserCallbackDispatcher ignoring exception

[XP100]

The channel is "ole", so maybe try "env WINEDEBUG=+ole wine setup.exe".

[NemoHic]

Thank you for the response. There is still over 5000 lines of output before the failure occurs using that debug level, which I'm unable to interpret. Is there an appropriate way I should post it or submit it as a bug report?

[XP100]

Probably only a limited amount of debugging can be done just by looking at the logs. Hard to reproduce without the actual EXE.

[desessarts]

is the .exe available on some site ?

[NemoHic]

It's rather obscure commercial software so I'm unable to send out the copyrighted setup file and I double anyone else has a copy. It's not critical by any means so I'll just run it in a virtual machine. A bit less convenient but not a major problem either.