Previously working app now has blank windows when launched

drewsus · Post by **drewsus** » Sat Aug 13, 2011 9:51 am

Hello,
I am referring to Army Builder 2.2c
It used to work fine as long as I can remember, but now, on all my computers, it launches with white windows.

Here is what I see when I load the program:

Any help would be appreciated!

Drew

jjmckenzie · Post by **jjmckenzie** » Sat Aug 13, 2011 2:00 pm

On 8/13/11 7:51 AM, drewsus wrote:

Hello,
I am referring to Army Builder 2.2c
It used to work fine as long as I can remember, but now, on all my computers, it launches with white windows.

This is what we refer to as a regression. Can you find out which
version of Wine 'broke it' or can you remember which is the last version
where it ran?

James

drewsus · Post by **drewsus** » Sun Aug 14, 2011 9:49 am

Yes, it was a regression after all. I purged everything to do with WINE and reinstalled forcing the last version available. The other day I had to do a 'dist-upgrade' to get the newest wine version to install which removed wine1.2 and its dependencies and installed wine1.3 and its dependencies. Going back to 1.2 fixed the issues I was having. I can provide specific version numbers if required.

mogorva · Post by **mogorva** » Mon Aug 15, 2011 9:39 am

Greetings,

The bug, causing the problem in Army Builder has been already reported here: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27990
The patch, attached in that bug report resolves the problem in Army Builder 2.2c, too.
Hopefully, the patch will get in the next release (1.3.27). Alternatively, you can revert back to Wine-1.3.25 (which is free from the problem).

Regards

drewsus · Post by **drewsus** » Mon Aug 15, 2011 3:50 pm

Why thank you, sir! Very informative.

hemanthkm · Post by **hemanthkm** » Wed Aug 17, 2011 12:11 am

mogorva wrote:Greetings,

The bug, causing the problem in Army Builder has been already reported here: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27990
The patch, attached in that bug report resolves the problem in Army Builder 2.2c, too.
Hopefully, the patch will get in the next release (1.3.27). Alternatively, you can revert back to Wine-1.3.25 (which is free from the problem).

Regards

I am also facing the White window problem with SAP client,Acrobat Reader and Internet Explorer.How should i apply this patch?.i mean how to use this?

thanks
hemanth

mogorva · Post by **mogorva** » Wed Aug 17, 2011 9:16 am

hemanthkm wrote: I am also facing the White window problem with SAP client,Acrobat Reader and Internet Explorer.How should i apply this patch?.i mean how to use this?

thanks
hemanth

Are you sure your problems in those apps were caused by the aforementioned bug/commit? Did those apps work correctly with the previous version (1.3.25)?
If you don't have the possibility to revert your Wine back to 1.3.25 (e.g. by your package manager) you should compile Wine from source and apply the patch.
You can find instructions how to compile Wine from source here:
http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-7ed3c31 ... 53dc41817b

Also, you will likely need to install a bunch of development files (dependencies for Wine) by your package manager to fulfill the requirements.
If you have problems compiling Wine from source you can always ask for help either here on the forums or on the irc channel.