Can not login to Picasa 3.9 under Wine

[José Eleudson Gurgel Queiroz]

I can not log in Picasa because the login and password fields do not get cursor focus.
Picasa 3.9 and IE6 (winetricks) were installed in Wine.
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ApportVersion: 2.0-0ubuntu2
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta i386 (20120301)
Package: wine 1.4-0ubuntu4
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=pt_BR:pt:en
 TERM=xterm
 LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-21.34-generic-pae 3.2.13
Tags: precise
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-21-generic-pae i686
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo

[Mihai Capotă (mihaic)]

Created attachment 38101
Output from running Picasa 3.9 in a terminal.

Picasa 3.9 fails to authenticate with Google. Picasa 3.8 works with the same setup (Ubuntu 11.10).

The problem is known to Google:
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Picasa/thread?tid=1c3f770cc876aeb9&fid=1c3f770cc876aeb90004b3eaa15d2dfe&hltp=2

"[...] we've switched to using OAuth in Picasa 3.9 and our implementation isn't supported on WINE."

I'm attaching the output I get when running in a terminal (wine Picasa3.exe). When I try to connect to Google, the following line is output:

"err:ntdll:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection section 0xe10440 "?" wait timed out in thread 0033, blocked by 0009, retrying (60 sec)"

[Austin English (austinenglish)]

Not ntdll. Does winetricks wininet or ie7 help? Can you retry in 1.3.35?

[Lapommegolden (lapommegolden)]

WORKSFORME.

I can sign in without any problem with ie6 installed from winetricks.

Picasa 3.9.0 (Build 135.8000, 0)
Wine 1.3.35

[Lapommegolden (lapommegolden)]

Created attachment 38130
Screenshot showing no problem signing in (Wine 1.3.35)

[Austin English (austinenglish)]

(In reply to comment #2)
> WORKSFORME.
>
> I can sign in without any problem with ie6 installed from winetricks.
>
> Picasa 3.9.0 (Build 135.8000, 0)
> Wine 1.3.35

There's still a bug in wine (hidden by using native dlls).

[Mihai Capotă (mihaic)]

Confirming workaround in comment 2.

[Javier Kohen (jkohen)]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Created attachment 38130 [details]
> Screenshot showing no problem signing in (Wine 1.3.35)

How did you log-in? I click on "Sign-in with Google Account," but after entering my login credentials Google says my browser is no longer supported. I'm using Picasa 3.9/IE6 on a clean Wine prefix. Unfortunately I'm stuck with 1.2.2 for the next couple weeks, but I'd be surprised if that were the difference.

FWIW, IE7 doesn't work for me: it never gives the confirmation after I enter the second factor authentication token.

[MA (mariusa)]

Confirming bug. Cannot use comment 2 workaround as
This package does not work on a 64-bit installation

PS: Salut Mihai :)

[Bruno Gonçalves de Jesus (00cpxxx)]

Confirmed by different users. And also retested in 1.4-rc6.

[Mihai Capotă (mihaic)]

(In reply to comment #7)
> Confirming bug. Cannot use comment 2 workaround as
> This package does not work on a 64-bit installation

That's another problem I also bumped into recently. I can no longer install IE6 on Ubuntu Precise 64 bit using wine-1.4-rc6. In fact, I can no longer install Picasa 3.9, either. I think it's bug 8130.

[papukaija (papukaija)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This bug did not have a package associated with it, which is important for ensuring that it gets looked at by the proper developers. You can learn more about finding the right package at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage . I have classified this bug as a bug in wine.

When reporting bugs in the future please use apport by using 'ubuntu-bug' and the name of the package affected. You can learn more about this functionality at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs.

[papukaija (papukaija)]

Please execute the following command, as it will automatically gather debugging information, in a terminal:

apport-collect 971221

When reporting bugs in the future please use apport by using 'ubuntu-bug' and the name of the package affected. You can learn more about this functionality at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReportingBugs.

[José Eleudson Gurgel Queiroz (eleudson)]

apport information

[papukaija (papukaija)]

Thanks for the details. I've linked the upstream report to this bug too. The Wine AppDB suggests that the login would work with IE7 installed.

[papukaija (papukaija)]

If IE7 doesn't help, you should be able login with Picase 3.8 (if you don't need v.3.9's new features) which can be downloaded from here: http://dl.google.com/picasa/picasa38-setup.exe

[José Eleudson Gurgel Queiroz (eleudson)]

I can not install IE7 on wine, but I downgrade to picasa 3.8 and this is fine.

[Martindonal (martindonal)]

I have the same problem with output similar to that of attachment 38101

My setup is:

Fedora 16 x86_64
wine.i686 1.5.0-2.fc16
Picasa Version 3.9.0 (Build 135.9300) for Linux

I uninstalled Picasa 3.9 and reinstalled Picasa 3.8 and could login to google and upload.

The act of logging in to Google triggered the reinstallation of Picasa 3.9 even when I requested "not now" or if I just closed the pop-up dialog.

I can reinstall Picasa 3.8 do my upload but next time I restart Picasa version 3.9 is installed and I have to repeat the process.

I do have ie6 installed.

[W-schume (w-schume)]

In reply to (In reply to comment #10)

The following WORKAROUND inhibits picasa from automatically updating from 3.8 to 3.9:

1. Install any version (3.8 or 3.9) (I installed 3.8)
2. Run picasa and and select in Tools->Options->Automatic Updates: Don't check for updates
3. Close picasa and reopen it. Now it will automatically update to version 3.9.
4. Close picasa again and simply install version 3.8 without uninstalling 3.9.

I am running wine 1.5.0
winetricks installed: ie7 dotnet20 wininet

With this setup it is possible for me to sign in to a google account from within picasa.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[ZOkI ZuAn (zoki)]

its a bit different with me .its saying i am not connected to internet
see attachment123

[Shannon VanWagner (shannon-vanwagner)]

I've tried installing wininet dotnet20 ie6 into a 32-bit wineprefix and I can't authenticate with my Google account. Instead, I get a window that shows:

You must be connected to the Internet to use this feature.
Try again
Close this window

This site says to copy over some GoogleOAuth registry key settings from a regular windows based installation of Picasa 3.9 but that would mean having to install your Picasa on windows first, before getting it working on Linux.
http://tsdgeos.blogspot.fr/2014/07/logging-in-into-picasa-39-under-linux.html

Something I notice is logging into Google with wine IE doesn't work very well at all.. but it works awesome with Mozilla Firefox! If Picasa3.9 could use Firefox as the authentication mechanism instead of IE, I think that would fix the issue.

[Jeremielapuree (jeremielapuree)]

Is still a bug in current wine (3.20)?

Download link is dead.

[Jeremielapuree (jeremielapuree)]

Only a white window appears with wine-5.22
I think it is safe to think the bug still occurs

Can an administrator put the new link at URL place?
http://www.oldversion.fr/windows/download/picasa-3-9-10-4

[Focht (focht)]

Hello joaopa,

thanks, but no need for that oldversion.fr link which redirects to a CDN for downloads = might not be stable enough.

The Internet Archive has already snapshotted the original Google link:

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Saved 97 times between July 21, 2012 and October 18, 2020.
--- snip ---

https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://dl.google.com/picasa/picasa39-setup.exe

https://web.archive.org/web/20120721231101/http://dl.google.com/picasa/picasa39-setup.exe

Tidbit:

https://support.google.com/picasa/answer/6383491?hl=en&visit_id=637427832873233977-573366911&rd=3

--- quote ---
What's happening to Picasa, Picasa Web Albums, and the Picasa Web Albums API?

Picasa is now retired. (If you speak English, you can read the blog post here.)
--- quote ---

https://web.archive.org/web/20201108170949/http://googlephotos.blogspot.com/2016/02/moving-on-from-picasa.html

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$ pwd
/home/focht/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Google/Picasa3

$ WINEDEBUG=+msgbox wine ./Picasa3.exe
--- snip ---

Top right -> 'Sign in with Google Account'

--- snip ---
...
0024:fixme:ieframe:DocObjectService_IsErrorUrl 00193140 L"https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/programmatic_auth?scope=https://www.googleapis.com/auth/userinfo%23email+https://mail.google.com/+https://www.googleapis.com/auth/photos+https://www.google.com/m8/feeds/+https://picasaweb.google.com/c/+https://www.googleapis.com/auth/plus.stream.write+"... 003169FC
0024:fixme:ieframe:handle_navigation_error Navigate to error page
...
0024:trace:msgbox:MSGBOX_OnInit L"There was a problem authenticating your account"
0140:err:ntdll:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection section 00E16800 "?" wait timed out in thread 0140, blocked by 0024, retrying (60 sec)
--- snip ---

Did anyone bother to test if this works nowadays on Windows?
I wouldn't be surprised if that doesn't work either.
Then you are beating a dead horse here.

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You should never rely on a Google-based platform for your application or service. Yes, that's true for other vendors as well but with Google it's a very persistent habit.

https://killedbygoogle.com/

$ sha1sum picasa39-setup.exe
91fff14aec95a6bdc0d256f621dc363872309452 picasa39-setup.exe

$ du -sh picasa39-setup.exe
15M picasa39-setup.exe

$ wine --version
wine-6.0-rc1

Regards

[Jeremielapuree (jeremielapuree)]

Created attachment 68784
screenshot showing connecting is impossible now

Indeed, connect to google in impossible with Picassa 3.9. Tested in a real windows XP box.

Can an administrator close this bug as ABANDONED?

[Focht (focht)]

Hello joaopa,

--- quote ---
Indeed, connect to google in impossible with Picassa 3.9. Tested in a real windows XP box.
--- quote ---

thanks for the quick feedback.
Resolving 'ABANDONED' here.

Regards

[Austin English (austinenglish)]

Closing.

[Imwellcushtymelike (imwellcushtymelike)]

Closing bugs marked as abandoned