Is Wine having a bug in it's system?

Gurple · Post by **Gurple** » Sun Aug 21, 2011 1:02 pm

Hi, I am running Ubuntu 11.04. I had no internet so I connected the ethernet cable to the modem on my other PC. Thus, getting internet connection, I installed Wine. I was able to open .exe files on Wine yesterday but after I took off the ethernet cable, no internet connection anymore, I couldn't run any .exe files on Wine.

Before disconnecting the internet, though, I was able to run Rainmeter. It worked but after the internet disconnection, it just would run anymore. It was the same with all my other .exe files.

It kept giving me the error

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Title: Program Error 
Description At The Top: The program winemenubuilder.exe has encountered a serious problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience. 
Description At Bottom: This can be caused by a problem in the program or a deficiency in Wine. You may want to check http://appdb.winehq.org for tips about running this application.  

If this problem is not present under Windows and has not been reported yet, you can report it at http://bugs.winehq.org

Also, every time I click to open Wine, it shows a white box and a smaller rectangle that is also white. It seems to be frozen there, as it won't load anymore. I can right-click on the .exe file and choose to open it in Wine, it goes to the installation of the .exe file but when you click 'Finish' of the .exe file installation wizard, it shows the code above.

On the Ubuntu Forums, I asked if I had to be connected to the internet to be able to use Wine, a user said that I didn't but now Wine won't work so I'm asking if there is a bug in the Wine system?[/code]

jjmckenzie · Post by **jjmckenzie** » Sun Aug 21, 2011 1:19 pm

On 8/21/11 11:02 AM, Gurple wrote:

Hi, I am running Ubuntu 11.04. I had no internet so I connected the ethernet cable to the modem on my other PC. Thus, getting internet connection, I installed Wine. I was able to open .exe files on Wine yesterday but after I took off the ethernet cable, no internet connection anymore, I couldn't run any .exe files on Wine.

Before disconnecting the internet, though, I was able to run Rainmeter. It worked but after the internet disconnection, it just would run anymore. It was the same with all my other .exe files.

I have not heard of this before, but does Rainmeter attempt to connect
to the Internet to distribute information? If so, this might be the
cause of the problem.

Can you provide the version of wine you are using (from terminal type in
wine --version)?

James

Gurple · Post by **Gurple** » Sun Aug 21, 2011 1:31 pm

jjmckenzie wrote:I have not heard of this before, but does Rainmeter attempt to connect
to the Internet to distribute information? If so, this might be the
cause of the problem.

Can you provide the version of wine you are using (from terminal type in
wine --version)?

James

No, RM doesn't attempt to connect to the internet.

I am using Wine 1.3

jjmckenzie · Post by **jjmckenzie** » Sun Aug 21, 2011 1:42 pm

On 8/21/11 11:31 AM, Gurple wrote:

jjmckenzie wrote:
I have not heard of this before, but does Rainmeter attempt to connect
to the Internet to distribute information? If so, this might be the
cause of the problem.

Can you provide the version of wine you are using (from terminal type in
wine --version)?

James
No, RM doesn't attempt to connect to the internet.

I am using Wine 1.3

Which version of 1.3? The latest is 1.3.26. If you are not using this
version, please update to it and try to run RM again.

James

Martin Gregorie · Post by **Martin Gregorie** » Sun Aug 21, 2011 3:17 pm

On Sun, 2011-08-21 at 13:31 -0500, Gurple wrote:

jjmckenzie wrote:
I have not heard of this before, but does Rainmeter attempt to connect
to the Internet to distribute information? If so, this might be the
cause of the problem.

Can you provide the version of wine you are using (from terminal type in
wine --version)?

James
No, RM doesn't attempt to connect to the internet.

I am using Wine 1.3

If the problem persists after a reboot, install Wireshark and its GUI
wrapper if you don't have them already. Start it and set it up to
monitor your ethernet connection. Then try running Rainmeter or any
other program that has the same problem. Wireshark should show which
program is trying to use the ethernet connection and what its trying to
do with it.

Martin

Gurple · Post by **Gurple** » Sun Aug 21, 2011 6:12 pm

jjmckenzie wrote:On 8/21/11 11:31 AM, Gurple wrote:
jjmckenzie wrote:
I have not heard of this before, but does Rainmeter attempt to connect
to the Internet to distribute information? If so, this might be the
cause of the problem.

Can you provide the version of wine you are using (from terminal type in
wine --version)?

James
No, RM doesn't attempt to connect to the internet.

I am using Wine 1.3

Which version of 1.3? The latest is 1.3.26. If you are not using this
version, please update to it and try to run RM again.

James

I'm not sure, it was the beta release of 1.3.
And shouldn't it be updated if I typed this in a terminal?:

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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wine1.3

Because that is what I did to get wine to work for me yesterday or am I missing something?

oiaohm · Post by **oiaohm** » Sun Aug 21, 2011 6:17 pm

Depending on what repo you used alters the version wine you have.

"wine --version" in terminal will make wine tell you what you have.

If its a old version please look at the download page of winehq.org for instructions.

Post by **dimesio** » Sun Aug 21, 2011 6:18 pm

Gurple wrote: Before disconnecting the internet, though, I was able to run Rainmeter

Is this the app? http://rainmeter.net/RainCMS/

There's a prominent virus warning on that page, and the symptoms you describe do sound like malware.

Gurple · Post by **Gurple** » Sun Aug 21, 2011 6:50 pm

dimesio wrote:
Gurple wrote: Before disconnecting the internet, though, I was able to run Rainmeter
Is this the app? http://rainmeter.net/RainCMS/

There's a prominent virus warning on that page, and the symptoms you describe do sound like malware.

Yes, that is the app. But the warning on that page isn't for what my problem is. That warning is only for the (RM) skins that people, on the deviantart site, is uploading as a "fake" copy of the original, containing viruses. That's not what I was talking about.

Gurple · Post by **Gurple** » Sun Aug 21, 2011 6:51 pm

oiaohm wrote:Depending on what repo you used alters the version wine you have.

"wine --version" in terminal will make wine tell you what you have.

If its a old version please look at the download page of winehq.org for instructions.

I checked, and I am running Wine 1.3.26, which is the newest/latest version of Wine, am I right?

Post by **dimesio** » Sun Aug 21, 2011 7:43 pm

Gurple wrote: I checked, and I am running Wine 1.3.26, which is the newest/latest version of Wine, am I right?

Yes.

You say none of the exes you've installed work. Do Wine's own exes work (winecfg, regedit, notepad)?

Gurple · Post by **Gurple** » Sun Aug 21, 2011 7:55 pm

dimesio wrote:
Gurple wrote: I checked, and I am running Wine 1.3.26, which is the newest/latest version of Wine, am I right?
Yes.

You say none of the exes you've installed work. Do Wine's own exes work (winecfg, regedit, notepad)?

Wine's own .exe files work.

Post by **dimesio** » Sun Aug 21, 2011 8:44 pm

Gurple wrote: Wine's own .exe files work.

Post terminal output from an app that doesn't work. If it's long, use pastebin and post a link here. http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#run_from_terminal

Gurple · Post by **Gurple** » Sun Aug 21, 2011 9:39 pm

dimesio wrote:
Gurple wrote: Wine's own .exe files work.
Post terminal output from an app that doesn't work. If it's long, use pastebin and post a link here. http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#run_from_terminal

http://pastebin.com/rWMTzpER

Post by **dimesio** » Sun Aug 21, 2011 10:43 pm

You may think Rainmeter doesn't access the internet, but the wininet fixmes mean that it does. Not being connected, however, isn't what's causing the crash; I downloaded Rainmeter, and it crashed on start for me, too, until I installed winetricks dotnet20.

So now that I've run it, I have to ask, what on earth made you think it DIDN'T access the internet? One of the things it monitors is network traffic.

As to why all your other exes are now crashing on start, I noticed one of the options during install of Rainmeter was to have it load whenever Windows starts. If you left that checked, Rainmeter would try to load any time you started anything in that wineprefix, and without dotnet20, would of course crash.

My suggestion is to delete that wineprefix, reinstall your other apps to a clean wineprefix, and Rainmeter to a separate wineprefix.

Magnus Johansson · Post by **Magnus Johansson** » Mon Aug 22, 2011 12:52 pm

dimesio wrote:
So now that I've run it, I have to ask, what on earth made you think it DIDN'T access the internet?

Is this a question helping the user with the problem?

Gurple · Post by **Gurple** » Tue Aug 23, 2011 10:05 pm

dimesio wrote:You may think Rainmeter doesn't access the internet, but the wininet fixmes mean that it does. Not being connected, however, isn't what's causing the crash; I downloaded Rainmeter, and it crashed on start for me, too, until I installed winetricks dotnet20.

So now that I've run it, I have to ask, what on earth made you think it DIDN'T access the internet? One of the things it monitors is network traffic.

As to why all your other exes are now crashing on start, I noticed one of the options during install of Rainmeter was to have it load whenever Windows starts. If you left that checked, Rainmeter would try to load any time you started anything in that wineprefix, and without dotnet20, would of course crash.

My suggestion is to delete that wineprefix, reinstall your other apps to a clean wineprefix, and Rainmeter to a separate wineprefix.

Everything is fine now. I just had to install Rainmeter 2.0 instead of 2.1 :P