http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27652
--- Comment #5 from mikahbot@gmail.com 2011-06-29 23:13:52 CDT --- (In reply to comment #3)
Same problem here. wine 1.3.21 (via http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-wine/ppa/ubuntu) on Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS, WoW installed via 'winetricks games wowtrial' originally, and it ran fine prior to the 4.2 patch.
I saw mention of being unable to find WoW.exe, so I renamed Wow.exe to WoW.exe, that didn't help.
I have that, while the Launcher just seems to hang when clicking the Play button, I can successfully launch the main WoW.exe app itself like this:
env WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.local/share/wineprefixes/wowtrial" \ wine C:\windows\command\start.exe /Unix \ "$HOME/.local/share/wineprefixes/wowtrial/dosdevices/c:/Program Files/World of Warcraft/WoW.exe"
Would be nice if the Launcher still worked though.
I can double confirm that
I used env WINEPREFIX="/home/user/.wineWoW" wine /home/user/.wineWoW/drive_c/Program\ Files\ (x86)/World\ of\ Warcraft/Wow.exe in order to run my script [seems a little simpler than yours, Jason]. The first two times I kept getting the WoW 10th anniversary video, third time it wasn't there and just went to the login screen.
If we could get the launcher to work again, that would be nice. It's not that much of a hassle, but I suppose until this is solved, we can check the WoW site for any patch updates.
Here's one thing that might be long term that I'd like to test. Will auto patches [as in, run the launcher to pick up the patch, let it install, then quit] still work with the launcher issue, or will we have to manually add them in. I'll have to test that if we can't get the launcher to work until then.