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rasp

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Registered: 2025-01-16

Posts: 3

[SOLVED] Unable to update wow with lutris/steam

Hi everyone,

Wednesday there was a WOW update. I was able to connect to my battle.net via Lutris without any problems, but it was impossible to install the wow update :

An error has occurred while writing a file

.

I tried to mount a snapshot from a week ago with my brtfs-grub... without any results.

So, i uninstalled WOW and battle.net, and... i wasn't able to reinstall battle.net. When I get to the binary installation phase, after choosing the language/path, and before the login window, it systematically blocked at 86% with an "Oops! How awful... a mistake "... I tried many times until i waited a while, and, after the error, and for some reason, the installation was completed. Since, battle.net well starts with Lutris (similar behavior can be obtained by going through Steam runtime/Adding a non-steam game/battle.exe, but without the same final success than lutris). Then, i tried to reinstall WOW and... i still got this error :

An error has occurred while writing a file

.

I tried to change permissions on dirs but I think I read that lutris intervenes in root mode anyway.
I tried to roll-bak with the previous nvidia-lts/utils drivers (these two packages seem to be able to cause certain similar errors and/or identical behaviours), without any success...

So I deleted my OS and reinstalled it :
- Arch Linux base image (the latest available on mirror list
On my computer :
- Tuf gaming B760-PLUS, intel i7 12th, nvme, RTX 4060 Ti
I used the requested drivers (nvidia-lts/utils), the recommended libs (list in the WOW Lutris github page), for the... same error... And the same difficulty to install battle.net (a problem I'd never had before).

So I decided to give it a try :
- i've just finished installing EndeavourOS in place of my arch base installation.
Still on the same hardware, still with the same packages (wine-staging, nvidia-lts/utils, proton9), and still with the same error...

 sudo journalctl -p 0..2 -b 

  et

 sudo dmesg | grep -E 'error|failed' 

returns only minor problems (keyboard key mapping, monitor returned and misinterpreted, etc.).

 lutris -d 

doen't help...

lutris-0.5.18
wine-9.22 (Staging)
local/nvidia-lts 1:565.77-10
local/nvidia-utils 565.77-3
local/lib32-nvidia-utils 565.77-1

Any idea ?

Last edited by rasp (2025-01-17 13:07:22)

rasp

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Registered: 2025-01-16

Posts: 3

Re: [SOLVED] Unable to update wow with lutris/steam

Same issues there :

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/c … ail_error/

rasp

Member

Registered: 2025-01-16

Posts: 3

Re: [SOLVED] Unable to update wow with lutris/steam

Well, i do not know why but some Proton versions don't work anymore...
Sometime i had to use the specific GEProton9.22 version and sometimes the 9.22staging version...
But it works... The reason why, on another hand...