wine stops working after upgrade to version 5.0~rc1-1ubuntu4

[Edson T. Marques]

After today's upgrade apt installed wine 5.0 ~ rc1-1ubuntu4 from the focal-proposed repository.
From then on the installed windows applications, which were running normally with wine 4.0.3-1, stopped working.
I opened a shell terminal and ran winecfg manually getting the following feedback:

etm @ etm: ~ $ winecfg
wine: chdir to / run / user / 1000 / wine / server-811-1b403b2: No such file or directory

The same is true of the other applications I try to run manually.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: wine 5.0~rc1-1ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-9.12-generic 5.4.3
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-9-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu15
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Fri Jan 10 08:39:14 2020
InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-12-12 (28 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Alpha amd64 (20191211)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: wine
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Edson T. Marques (edsontmarques)]

I applied the following workaround:

- In my Ubuntu installation I found the "/run" folder. So I went to the root and gave a:

find | grep server-811

- This command returned me a reference location in "/tmp/.wine-1000/server-811-1b403b2"

So I went to the folder

cd /run/user/1000

- I had to create the "wine" folder inside because it didn't exist. There was only an empty folder called "winw".

mkdir wine

- I entered the folder

cd wine

- Then I made a link to the file that wine was complaining about:

  ln -s /tmp/.wine-1000/server-811-1b403b2

Once the link was created in "/run/user/1000/wine/server-811-1b403b2" I was able to run Wine and Windows applications again .... Now let's see how wine 5 works!

[Edson T. Marques (edsontmarques)]

Unfortunately after shutdown and restart my computer the /run/user/1000/wine folder disappeared.
This #2 was not a good workaround.