Some applications no longer work (in a clean wine prefix)... and is not a regression

[macchinetta]

Hi.

I'm running in a very strange issue... in a few words some time ago some application working properly out of the box (in a clean wine prefix), recently same application has stop to working (except for one of them that continued to work well in my old, and probably dirty, prefix).

Of course I try old version of wine to find the last one working in order to exclude a regression... I arrived at least until the last version definitely working (5.17 - 5.18) and even with it these applications don't work anymore (as above).

So I thought it might be something else that has updated in my system and introduced the problem (excluding nvidia driver since the problem is reproducible with nouveau from a live), maybe even steam, since one of the applications is steamwebhelper, even if this doesn't explain why one of the applications continues to work in the dirty profile, but I do not know how to determine what it might be because issue many things have been updated and steam does not allow downgrade.

Anyway the fact that one of the applications continues to work in the old profile (I am absolutely sure that before it also worked in a clean profile WITHOUT installing anything) and I can't find an explanation for this.

Can someone help me understand this?

Thank you in advance.

[Bob Wya]

@macchinetta

There are multiple issues affecting the native Linux Steam client, when run under Wine.
E.g. see:

• Bug 47331 - Steam browser flickering
• Bug 50205 - Steam News causes Steam crash after login
  ...

The only sort of workaround I'm aware of (apart from using Proton) - is to use the Steam mini games list... I.e. run Steam with:

Code: Select all

wine Steam.exe -no-browser +open steam://open/minigameslist

See:
WineHQ AppDB: Game Tools / Steam / Official Release
for a full list of active Steam Client bugs and documentation.

Bob

[macchinetta]

Thanks, but I was already using Steam mini games list, even before the problem occurred, to work around problems with cef sandbox. So it's unuseful in this case.

Anyway I had already filled a bug myself as I am inclined to think the problem is caused by an update from steam:

• https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50311

So I think we can refer to that (which is more updated) and close this discussion to avoid confusion.