Wine (& Crossover) cannot activate Securom modules after upgrading to Maverick

Thank you for posting this bug.

Does this occur in most recent WINE?

Well, it still occured as of yersterday. (with Crossover as well)

Meanwhile, I went back to Lucid due to some other issues, but I'll set a dual boot tomorrow and will keep you informed (exams ATM :-).

Thanks for replying !

Okay then : I tested the current beta (all up to date), with a blank home directory.

The issue is still the same : with wine 1.2, some apps that work perfectly under Lucid with the very same version of wine do not start.

Telltale games complains they "cannot activate securom modules"
Starcraft 2 starts then quits instantly after displaying the main menu for a fraction of a second, etc.
Some apps that do not use security modules, such as Synthesia, EarMaster Pro, work as usual.

There is no relevant error message in the terminal. For instance, with TellTale's Adventure Bundle :

fixme:ntdll:NtQuerySystemInformation info_class SYSTEM_HANDLE_INFORMATION
fixme:ntdll:NtQueryObject Unsupported information class 3
err:rpc:I_RpcGetBuffer no binding
fixme:ntdll:NtQueryInformationProcess (process=0xffffffff) Unimplemented information class: ProcessDebugFlags

The very same issues occur with CrossOver 9.1.

Cheers !

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The Launchpad community needs one bug per game version, and one bug for WINE or CrossOver. In this situation, this would lead to 8 bugs, one WINE bug for each software version mentioned (Telltale ver.w, Starcraft 2 ver.x, Synthesia ver.y, EarMaster Pro ver. z), and one for CrossOver. I understand how tedious this may seem but it is the best method to get your issue dealt with as soon as possible. As well, your crash report is missing. Please follow these instructions to have apport report a new bug about your crash that can be dealt with by the automatic retracer.

If you are running the Ubuntu Stable Release you might need to enable apport in /etc/default/apport and restart.

If you are using Ubuntu with the Gnome desktop environment - launch nautilus and navigate to your /var/crash directory and double click on the crash report you wish to submit.
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I'm closing this bug report since the process outlined above will automatically open a new bug report which can then dealt with more efficiently. Thanks in advance for your cooperation and understanding.

These appear to have all been affected by a change which happened from Lucid to Maverick rather than a change in wine version ( 'some apps that work perfectly under Lucid with the very same version of wine do not start') so they shouldn't all be filed upstream, at least not yet.
This may be a difficulty with some new security setting or something but unfortunately I don't know.
Scott, any idea?

Hi ! Well, yep indeed, it's definitely not a matter of wine version <-> windows program combinations as, with the very same version of wine and the very same wineprefix, issues only arise under Maverick.

That means another component plays a role here a causes a regression under Maverick... Any idea on how to figure it out ?

Cheers & thanks for your replies !

I think it's the ptrace stuff: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24193

Indeed ! I can work around the issue by editing /etc/sysctl.d/10-ptrace.conf and setting kernel.yama.ptrace_scope = 0, but I wonder what are the other consequences...

This bug was fixed in the package wine1.2 - 1.2-0ubuntu7

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wine1.2 (1.2-0ubuntu7) maverick; urgency=low

  * debian/patches: Workaround PTRACE issues due to new kernel settings
    - Should fix a whole host of applications with copy protection or
      anti-cheating technology (LP: #632206)
 -- Scott Ritchie <email address hidden> Fri, 01 Oct 2010 05:03:08 -0700

Not actually fixed (upload didn't build)

Alexandre tells me this will be fixed in Wine 1.2.1, which should come out next week.

A work-around will be available as a 0-day SRU so we don't have to wait for the full 1.2.1 SRU.

Accepted wine1.2 into maverick-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

My initial testing shows Wine 1.2.1 to work fine.

Seems to work fine.

I was unable to use the networking part of Kindle for PC (downloading books etc) with wine version 1.2.0, however after installing 1.2.1 from maverick-proposed I was able to download books and start reading them.

copied to natty.

This bug was fixed in the package wine1.2 - 1.2.1-0ubuntu1

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wine1.2 (1.2.1-0ubuntu1) maverick-proposed; urgency=low

  * New upstream release
    - Various minor fixes, including change for working around 10.10's
      new PTRACE settings (LP: #632206)
    - Some more translations
  * debian/patches: drop kernel32-wowlauncher patch (included in 1.2.1 now)
  * Debian/copyright: winehq.org not winehq.com
 -- Scott Ritchie <email address hidden> Fri, 08 Oct 2010 12:53:56 -0700

this bug still affects me in wine 1.3

1.4 even

1.4, 1.4ppa and 1.5ppa