Wine starts extremely slowly

[Paul Nolan]

Binary package hint: wine

Wine is taking upwards of a minute to start even simple apps (eg. winecfg). This has been happeniong since I upgraded to Dapper, and now I'm running Edgy and the problem is still here. I've tried wine packages from both the official repositories and wine's own one, with versions between around 0.9.7 (I think) and the current one. On Breezy, I was running the packages from the wine site, and there was no speed problem.

[Nick Cronin (quintok)]

what version of wine are you running?
quintok@home:~$ wine --version
Wine 0.9.21
Have you tried to build your own from wine's GIT repository?
winecfg (from edgy's wine repository) for me loads in about 4 seconds.

[Paul Nolan (paul-nolan)]

Same version, although the problem's been there with every version I've used since I moved to Dapper in April.

I haven't tried building it myself, yet.

[Paul Nolan (paul-nolan)]

OK, I tried building wine from git, but it just segfaulted on startup (it segfaulted /quickly/, though :))

[Paul Nolan (paul-nolan)]

Never mind.

I reinstalled the packaged version and now I'm getting more sensible startup times. I'm sure I've tried this before, though...

[Nick Cronin (quintok)]

sorry for my slow reply (was bed time I've just got up) segfault was a good sign! that was a complete build in edgy... here's a link to the fix:
https://launchpad.net/products/wine/+bug/56965

[Stephan Rügamer (sruegamer)]

fixed in 0.9.{20,21,22}