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DVD shrink fails to load in wine after upgrade to 7.04

Bug #115811 reported by Martin G Miller
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: wine

I have recently upgraded my system from Edgy (6.10) to Feisty (7.04).
I have been using the wine repositories instead of the ubuntu repos since Dapper and never had a problem.
I am using wine version 0.9.37 obtained from the wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt feisty repository. Running DVD Shrink in wine under Edgy (6.10) worked as expected. After upgrading my system to Feisty (7.04) On attempting to run DVD Shrink from the created entry in the Applications list, you get an error message saying xvidcore.dll is not found. This error will not go away by clicking the OK button, I need to use xkill to end it. If you look in System Monitor you may find an entry for DVD Shrink running as zombie. If you attempt to execute DVD Shrink from the command line, you get an unlimited string of error messages and occasional popups about the missing xvidcore.dll. If you hit ctrl-c early in the list of error messages, sometimes the application will load. When loaded, sometimes it will work, sometimes it is frozen. If you place a copy of xvidcore.dll in the system32 folder in wine, the application will not work at all. This file was never needed in the past.

Expected behavior:
Should continue to run normally as before in previous versions of Ubuntu and wine.

DVD Shrink has had a gold rating at winehq.org for some time, it has now regressed to a rating of garbage.
A bug report has also been filed at winehq.org on this problem.

Revision history for this message
Stephan Rügamer (sruegamer) wrote :

Please use our version of wine to get support for wine on feisty.
PLease check as well the upgrade path from edgy to feisty (reading on winehq about updating your packages).

Changed in wine:
status: Unconfirmed → Rejected
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Martin G Miller (mgmiller) wrote :

This bug continued even after the wine repo's upgraded to version 0.9.38. This is now a known bug that is actively being worked on by the wine devs. I have since turned off the wine repos, uninstalled wine and then installed the version (0.9.33) from the Feisty repos. This has fixed the problem. I often advise others on the Ubuntu forums to avoid 3rd party repositories if they are having problems. I guess I needed to take my own advice for a change.

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Martin G Miller (mgmiller) wrote :

You should be aware that there is an open bug report on this issue at wine.hq it is bug number 8085. There is active work on resolving this going on right now. When the Ubuntu repos update their wine version, it will need to jump several versions to avoid this bug as it appears starting in 0.9.34 and continues through 0.9.38. Please don't update your wine version till this is resolved to avoid a major regression.

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