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sjakub

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From: Canada/Poland

Registered: 2008-06-16

Posts: 84

[SOLVED] World of Warcraft's Launcher crashes after a few seconds

Recently I run into problem with World of Warcraft. I have kind-of solved it, but I am posting it in case someone else experiences it as well.

I haven't played it for a while, and when I tried to run it yesterday the Launcher would start downloading updates and, after 2-3 seconds, it would crash.

It turns out it's a problem with wine compiled using gcc 4.6.0. It has been reported already: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27375
The solution is to downgrade wine package to 1.3.16-1 (I'm not sure if this is the last version compiled with gcc 4.5.x, but it's the last before gcc 4.6.0 was added to pacman's repository - and it works).

Also, to prevent it from updating again, "wine" has to be added to IgnorePkglist in pacman.conf.

EDIT: This issue is fixed in wine 1.3.24

Last edited by sjakub (2011-07-09 23:57:16)