[Bug 51081] New: wine fails to run any program with emulate a virtual desktop is enabled, showing: "comctl32.dll" failed to initialize, aborting

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51081

Bug ID: 51081
           Summary: wine fails to run any program with emulate a virtual
                    desktop is enabled, showing: "comctl32.dll" failed to
                    initialize, aborting
           Product: Wine
           Version: 6.7
          Hardware: x86-64
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
          Assignee: [e-mail]
          Reporter: [e-mail]
      Distribution: ---

using winehq-devel 6.7 on Debian bullseye.

Enabling the emulate a virtual desktop checkbox with winecfg results in every
program executed after to fail to start with
"00d0:err:module:LdrInitializeThunk "comctl32.dll" failed to initialize,
aborting". Wine is working just fine when the virtual desktop is not enabled (,
but some programs do not run without virtual desktop emulation.)
This happens with any "wine myprogram.exe", and with programs included in wine
such as "winecfg".

full log reproduced below:

~> winecfg

0060:err:winediag:is_broken_driver Broken NVIDIA RandR detected, falling back
to RandR 1.0. Please consider using the Nouveau driver instead.
MESA-INTEL: warning: Ivy Bridge Vulkan support is incomplete
MESA-INTEL: warning: Ivy Bridge Vulkan support is incomplete
00d8:err:winediag:is_broken_driver Broken NVIDIA RandR detected, falling back
to RandR 1.0. Please consider using the Nouveau driver instead.
MESA-INTEL: warning: Ivy Bridge Vulkan support is incomplete
MESA-INTEL: warning: Ivy Bridge Vulkan support is incomplete
MESA-INTEL: warning: Ivy Bridge Vulkan support is incomplete
MESA-INTEL: warning: Ivy Bridge Vulkan support is incomplete
0034:err:winediag:is_broken_driver Broken NVIDIA RandR detected, falling back
to RandR 1.0. Please consider using the Nouveau driver instead.
MESA-INTEL: warning: Ivy Bridge Vulkan support is incomplete
MESA-INTEL: warning: Ivy Bridge Vulkan support is incomplete
MESA-INTEL: warning: Ivy Bridge Vulkan support is incomplete
MESA-INTEL: warning: Ivy Bridge Vulkan support is incomplete
MESA-INTEL: warning: Ivy Bridge Vulkan support is incomplete
MESA-INTEL: warning: Ivy Bridge Vulkan support is incomplete
MESA-INTEL: warning: Ivy Bridge Vulkan support is incomplete
MESA-INTEL: warning: Ivy Bridge Vulkan support is incomplete
00d0:err:winediag:is_broken_driver Broken NVIDIA RandR detected, falling back
to RandR 1.0. Please consider using the Nouveau driver instead.
MESA-INTEL: warning: Ivy Bridge Vulkan support is incomplete

00d0:err:module:LdrInitializeThunk "comctl32.dll" failed to initialize,
aborting
00d0:err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Initializing dlls for
L"C:\windows\syswow64\winecfg.exe" failed, status c0000005

I would gladly do more tests or provide more insightful logs if instructed to
do so. Thanks!

[Bug 51081] wine fails to run any program with emulate a virtual desktop is enabled, showing: "comctl32.dll" failed to initialize, aborting

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[e-mail] changed:

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       Distribution|---                         |Debian

[Bug 51081] wine fails to run any program with "emulate a virtual desktop" enabled, showing: "comctl32.dll" failed to initialize, aborting

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[e-mail] changed:

What    |Removed                     |Added
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            Summary|wine fails to run any       |wine fails to run any
                   |program with emulate a      |program with "emulate a
                   |virtual desktop is enabled, |virtual desktop" enabled,
                   |showing: "comctl32.dll"     |showing: "comctl32.dll"
                   |failed to initialize,       |failed to initialize,
                   |aborting                    |aborting

[Bug 51081] wine fails to run any program with "emulate a virtual desktop" enabled, showing: "comctl32.dll" failed to initialize, aborting

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Zhiyi Zhang  changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Zhiyi Zhang  ---
Please upload a "WINEDEBUG=+xrandr,+x11drv,+winediag,+x11settings wine winecfg"
log

[Bug 51081] wine fails to run any program with "emulate a virtual desktop" enabled, showing: "comctl32.dll" failed to initialize, aborting

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--- Comment #2 from [e-mail] ---
Created attachment 69952
  --> https://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=69952
WINEDEBUG=+xrandr,+x11drv,+winediag,+x11settings wine winecfg

WINEDEBUG=+xrandr,+x11drv,+winediag,+x11settings wine winecfg

log attached

[Bug 51081] wine fails to run any program with "emulate a virtual desktop" enabled, showing: "comctl32.dll" failed to initialize, aborting

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--- Comment #3 from [e-mail] ---
as this is still UNCONFIRMED:
Is there any other information needed?

I just tested this again and it ("comctl32.dll" failed to initialize, aborting)
still happens as of 6.9 .
Same results with wine staging 6.9 and with wine stable 6.0 .

(For completeness' sake, I also tested this with open source intel graphics
instead of proprietary nvidia graphics. same results)

[Bug 51081] wine fails to run any program with "emulate a virtual desktop" enabled, showing: "comctl32.dll" failed to initialize, aborting

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kolAflash  changed:

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--- Comment #4 from kolAflash  ---
I'm having the same problem on Bullseye!
(Debian 11 Testing/Beta)

I think the problem didn't appear with Wine-6.0 a few weeks before. So maybe
not Wine itself, but a library recently updated by Debian may caused this.

Please let me know if I can somehow help fixing this.

Problem is existing on both my Bullseye systems:

desktop computer
CPU: Ryzen 7 5800X
GPU: Radeon RX 590

notebook
Model: HP EliteBook 735 G6
CPU & GPU: Ryzen 5 3500U with Vega 8

Problem also exists if I create a new Wine prefix and enable the virtual
desktop either via winecfg or by using "/desktop=shell,1920x1080":

env WINEPREFIX="${HOME}"/my_prefix wine explorer.exe /desktop=shell,1920x1080
winefile

[Bug 51081] wine fails to run any program with "emulate a virtual desktop" enabled, showing: "comctl32.dll" failed to initialize, aborting

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--- Comment #5 from kolAflash  ---
Reproduced with Bullseye (Debian-Testing) builds from:
https://wiki.winehq.org/Debian
Tested:
- wine-stable-6.0.1
- wine-devel-6.10
- wine-staging-6.10

wine-stable-5.11 is the first broken version!
Previous wine-stable-5.10 is fine.

Wine-5.0.3 from the Debian-Bullseye sources is completely fine to.

And interestingly the bug only seems to happen when calling bin/wine.
But bin/wine64 seems to be not affected.

[Bug 51081] wine fails to run any program with "emulate a virtual desktop" enabled, showing: "comctl32.dll" failed to initialize, aborting

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--- Comment #6 from kolAflash  ---
Identified the first bad commit.

https://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git/commitdiff/145cfce1135a7e59cc4c89cd05...

[Bug 51081] wine fails to run any program with "emulate a virtual desktop" enabled, showing: "comctl32.dll" failed to initialize, aborting

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Zhiyi Zhang  changed:

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     Ever confirmed|0                           |1
             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |NEW

--- Comment #7 from Zhiyi Zhang  ---
Confirmed with wine 6.10. Working on this.

[Bug 51081] wine fails to run any program with "emulate a virtual desktop" enabled, showing: "comctl32.dll" failed to initialize, aborting

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Zhiyi Zhang  changed:

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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|---                         |NOTOURBUG

--- Comment #8 from Zhiyi Zhang  ---
This is caused by bugs in Mesa. Upgrading mesa-vulkan-drivers from 20.3.4-1 to
20.3.5-1 in sid fixes it. The related commits are
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/commit/14033ab6dc97e84227377d1713...
and
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/commit/9a467b33bfb03683ce2f8256cb...

[Bug 51081] wine fails to run any program with "emulate a virtual desktop" enabled, showing: "comctl32.dll" failed to initialize, aborting

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--- Comment #9 from kolAflash  ---
(In reply to Zhiyi Zhang from comment #8)
> This is caused by bugs in Mesa. Upgrading mesa-vulkan-drivers from 20.3.4-1
> to 20.3.5-1 in sid fixes it. [...]

Thank you very much!

Looks like there's already a similar bug related to Wine and asking for
Mesa-20.3.5-1 in Bullseye.
(Bullseye = currently Debian-11 Testing and may become Stable in June 2021)
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=983390#17

[Bug 51081] wine fails to run any program with "emulate a virtual desktop" enabled, showing: "comctl32.dll" failed to initialize, aborting

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[Bug 51081] wine fails to run any program with "emulate a virtual desktop" enabled, showing: "comctl32.dll" failed to initialize, aborting

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zelea2  changed:

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--- Comment #10 from zelea2  ---
Created attachment 75154
  --> https://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=75154
trace of the winecfg crash

[Bug 51081] wine fails to run any program with "emulate a virtual desktop" enabled, showing: "comctl32.dll" failed to initialize, aborting

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--- Comment #11 from zelea2  ---
This bug is still present in wine v8.0.2

winecfg (and any .exe program) crashes once the emulate virtual desktop is set

wine starts to work again only after removing the \Wine\Explorer\Desktops
key from user.reg