[Bug 20969] New: World of Warcraft launcher fails to render page

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20969

Summary: World of Warcraft launcher fails to render page
           Product: Wine
           Version: 1.1.34
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: mshtml
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]

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console output

World of Warcraft launcher program window stays saying "Loading News..." where
it should show news about current wow events and links to account management
etc. After a while a tiny little empty window with only an ok button pops up.

This is a regression, first release it appears in is 1.1.29 and bisect says

80f02b82d68902f32578a7bcf6cfbaa715b724ce is the first bad commit
commit 80f02b82d68902f32578a7bcf6cfbaa715b724ce
Author: Jacek Caban 
Date:   Sat Aug 22 19:40:01 2009 +0200

mshtml: Use URL moniker to load http documents.

:040000 040000 ce13f07c676018ff9e55a887a94f0c8059d6fb43
e2353a8c233d8233e380f8045b6c87c8191c6be3 M      dlls

[Bug 20969] World of Warcraft launcher fails to render page

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20969

Vitaliy Margolen  changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Vitaliy Margolen   2009-12-09 08:39:50 ---
Duplicate

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 20000 ***

[Bug 20969] World of Warcraft launcher fails to render page

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Vitaliy Margolen  changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Vitaliy Margolen   2009-12-09 08:39:59 ---
Closing

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Jukka Tastula  changed:

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--- Comment #3 from Jukka Tastula  2010-09-24 18:23:50 CDT ---
Bug 20000 has been closed but this is still an issue in current git.

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--- Comment #4 from Jukka Tastula  2010-09-24 18:26:11 CDT ---
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output on console

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--- Comment #5 from Jerome Leclanche  2010-09-24 19:40:23 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #3)
> Bug 20000 has been closed but this is still an issue in current git.

Works fine here; it's only an issue if you prevent gecko from installing.

Try $ winetricks gecko. Does it still happen then?

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Thomas Spear  changed:

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--- Comment #6 from Thomas Spear  2010-09-24 21:09:13 CDT ---
I can confirm that it works fine, install gecko either with winetricks or
manually.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 20000 ***

[Bug 20969] World of Warcraft launcher fails to render page

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--- Comment #7 from Thomas Spear  2010-09-24 21:09:26 CDT ---
Closing

[Bug 20969] World of Warcraft launcher fails to render page

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20969

--- Comment #8 from Jukka Tastula  2010-09-25 08:19:06 CDT ---
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harsh reality

It doesn't matter if I install gecko (in a clean prefix or the same where I
have the game installed) through winetricks or let the built-in downloader
install it, I always get this.

Wine 1.1.28 is still the last one where this works properly for me.

[Bug 20969] World of Warcraft launcher fails to render page

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20969

--- Comment #9 from Jukka Tastula  2010-09-25 08:39:31 CDT ---
It seems that installing ie6 makes this work since it installs all kinds of
native dlls. You guys don't per chance have it installed, too?

I'm still interested in hearing what exactly I'm doing wrong if this bug
doesn't actually exist as you claim.

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--- Comment #10 from Jukka Tastula  2010-09-25 10:09:31 CDT ---
I feel like an ass reopening this again but I've now installed ubuntu 10.04 to
test this on what I might call a more common setup (I guess) to make sure it's
not just my system and I'm still seeing the exact same behaviour.

Version 1.1.28 works, 1.1.29 through 1.1.32 crash with an unhandled exception
in urlmon and everything newer than that simply refuse to render the page.

In all these cases installing ie6 makes everything seem fine since it installs
its own urlmon and friends.

[Bug 20969] World of Warcraft launcher fails to render page

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--- Comment #11 from Thomas Spear  2010-09-25 15:14:07 CDT ---
Have you tried 1.2.x or 1.3.x at all?

I am using a clean prefix with just gecko and it works fine. Try 1.2.x or 1.3.x
and let us know. 1.1.x is really old and not maintained anymore

[Bug 20969] World of Warcraft launcher fails to render page

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--- Comment #12 from Jukka Tastula  2010-09-26 05:31:31 CDT ---
I have tried every single version from where the git master is since friday on
debian 64bit and every single ubuntu package on 10.04 32bit from 1.3.3 down to
1.1.28 where it magically starts working on both systems.

Removed prefix in every case, installed gecko. Only thing that changes is if I
don't install gecko I get a message telling me html rendering has been
disabled. With gecko installed (like you can see from me console output
capture) the message doesn't appear yet no actual rendering in the application
occurs in >1.1.28.

[Bug 20969] World of Warcraft launcher fails to render page

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--- Comment #13 from Thomas Spear  2010-09-27 19:33:43 CDT ---
That is very odd.

Do you make any changes in winecfg after clearing the prefix? Anything at all?

Also, how was this instance of wow installed originally?

Im suspecting it's location as a possible cause at the moment. I go into
winecfg to get sound and drives setup, using the autodetect, and then modifying
the drives to suit my needs, but I leave the Z: drive, as that covers my entire
filesystem. If you don't go into winecfg at all, then the drive setup -may-
have something to do with it. Even if you do, the filesystem used on the device
where your wow is installed may be a cause. So might be just how it was
installed (wine vs windows, diff win versions, or even disc vs web installers).
I'm just trying to rule out anything that might be different between our
setups.

[Bug 20969] World of Warcraft launcher fails to render page

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--- Comment #14 from Jukka Tastula  2010-09-28 05:08:54 CDT ---
I didn't run winecfg at all, just pointed WINEPREFIX to somewhere new and ran
the launcher. Now retesting I find that having it inside the prefix makes no
difference (which was the original setup anyway). Removing Z: doesn't change
anything, except that it has to be inside the prefix of course.

The game was originally installed from cds and dvd with wine on ext4 and I
tried ext3 in ubuntu and fedora 13. Also the net installed cataclysm beta
launcher has the same issue.

The launcher seems to be rather self-contained as you can just copy wow.exe and
launcher.exe to any directory anywhere without ever installing the game and it
will run as it should (on wine 1.1.28 and windows xp/7 anyway). It doesn't seem
to depend on any magic registry keys created during installation or any other
files in the game itself.

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--- Comment #15 from Scott Ritchie  2010-09-29 13:10:57 CDT ---
Does any app run on that Wine prefix?

[Bug 20969] World of Warcraft launcher fails to render page

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--- Comment #16 from Jukka Tastula  2010-09-30 05:14:27 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #15)
> Does any app run on that Wine prefix?

Nothing else was running in the prefix while testing if that's what you meant?

The launcher (and the game or any other app I choose to install in it) run just
fine from any prefix, it just won't show the news and whatnot in the window
like it used to.

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--- Comment #17 from [e-mail] 2010-11-02 11:48:54 CDT ---
I am also having this issue. This is from a fresh install of WoW using Wine
1.3.6, but the patch notes/game news does not display on the launcher. When the
game is updating it is completely blank, now that the updates have finished it
is giving me a message "Cannot connect to the News Server. Please check the
network and try again later."

I wonder if there is some setting in Wine to enable this. I can play WoW so the
network connection is up, but I did install IE6 and it would not connect to the
net. If the launcher is just rendering a web page could this be related?

[Bug 20969] World of Warcraft launcher fails to render page

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--- Comment #18 from Thomas Spear  2010-11-02 11:56:33 CDT ---
Those of you with this issue, make sure you vote for this in bugzilla so that
it can be confirmed, if you haven't already.

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--- Comment #19 from Dmitry Timoshkov  2010-11-02 12:01:23 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #18)
> Those of you with this issue, make sure you vote for this in bugzilla so that
> it can be confirmed, if you haven't already.

Voting for bugs in Wine bugzilla is useless and does nothing except adding
noise.

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--- Comment #20 from Jerome Leclanche  2011-03-27 13:47:17 CDT ---
Is this still an issue in wine-1.3.16?

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--- Comment #21 from Jukka Tastula  2011-03-27 15:43:24 CDT ---
No change.

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--- Comment #22 from Abe  2011-10-21 09:55:22 CDT ---
Same here installed wine Wine 1.3.30 Released and get the main launch page with
news ok but once you hit play wow.exe fails to launch after hitting the play
button. it just hangs

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--- Comment #23 from Jukka Tastula  2012-03-30 01:32:08 CDT ---
Not even sure when this disappeared. The whole program is different now anyway.

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Jerome Leclanche  changed:

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--- Comment #24 from Jerome Leclanche  2012-03-30 03:20:49 CDT ---
Closinating.