[Bug 40044] New: Wine prefix creation is really slow

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40044

Bug ID: 40044
           Summary: Wine prefix creation is really slow
           Product: Wine
           Version: 1.8
          Hardware: x86
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
          Assignee: [e-mail]
          Reporter: [e-mail]
      Distribution: ---

This pretty much says it all:

$ time WINEPREFIX=$(pwd)/tmpprefix wine echo
wine: created the configuration directory '/home/r/Desktop/tmpprefix'
Could not load wine-gecko. HTML rendering will be disabled.
Could not load wine-gecko. HTML rendering will be disabled.
wine: configuration in '/home/r/Desktop/tmpprefix' has been updated.
wine: cannot find L"C:\windows\system32\echo.exe"

real    2m3.599s
user    0m0.004s
sys    0m0.008s

This is on a system with 8GB RAM, a dual-core (four threads) CPU and a fast
SSD. I don't know what takes it so long, but the time certainly seems excessive
for creating a directory of 38 MiB. This hasn't always been that slow, but it's
been slow for at least two years now.

[Bug 40044] Wine prefix creation is really slow

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40044

[e-mail] changed:

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--- Comment #1 from [e-mail] ---
I used command "time wine echo". I quess I could have left that echo out.
Deleted wine prefix via winetricks before this.

The result:

real    0m4.808s
user    0m0.000s
sys     0m0.008s

But sometimes wine prefix creating feels really slow.

wine 1.9.2

[Bug 40044] Wine prefix creation is really slow

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40044

--- Comment #2 from Austin English  ---
At least part of that may be wine-gecko not being found (and a timeout when
fetching the msi).

Are you seeing a gecko dialog and canceling it / letting it timeout? Does
putting the .msi in /usr/share/wine/gecko help speed it up?

[Bug 40044] Wine prefix creation is really slow

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40044

--- Comment #3 from Ralf Jung  ---
There's no window being opened about Gecko. At least, not that I would notice -
no new entry in the taskbar, no window popping up.

Is there some location in $HOME that I could put it that it would find? I
prefer leaving /usr to dpkg+apt.

[Bug 40044] Wine prefix creation is really slow

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40044

--- Comment #4 from Ralf Jung  ---
In any case, it did not help. Wine still cannot find the gecko files.

$ ls /usr/share/wine/gecko -l
total 63284
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 33056768 Jan 25 22:31 wine_gecko-2.40-x86_64.msi
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31741440 Jan 25 22:31 wine_gecko-2.40-x86.msi

$ rm ~/.wine -rf && wine echo
wine: created the configuration directory '/home/r/.wine'
Could not load wine-gecko. HTML rendering will be disabled.
Could not load wine-gecko. HTML rendering will be disabled.
wine: configuration in '/home/r/.wine' has been updated.
wine: cannot find L"C:\windows\system32\echo.exe"

[Bug 40044] Wine prefix creation is really slow

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40044

--- Comment #5 from Ralf Jung  ---
I also minimized all windows before trying this, to make sure I would see
popups appearing in the background. There were none.

[Bug 40044] Wine prefix creation is really slow

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40044

Sebastian Lackner  changed:

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--- Comment #6 from Sebastian Lackner  ---
According to the terminal output wine-gecko was not found, so its really
suspicious that there is no dialog showing up. Could you show the output when
creating a prefix with WINEDEBUG=+appwizcpl ?

Where did you obtain the wine build? If its a self-compiled version, please try
to use WineHQ provided builds to verify if they show the same issue.

[Bug 40044] Wine prefix creation is really slow

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40044

Austin English  changed:

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--- Comment #7 from Austin English  ---
I suspect this is a Debian package that disables external gecko.

[Bug 40044] Wine prefix creation is really slow

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40044

--- Comment #8 from Ralf Jung  ---
Yes, these are the Debian packages.

The log is not all that informative:

err:ole:marshal_object couldn't get IPSFactory buffer for interface
{00000131-0000-0000-c000-000000000046}
  err:ole:marshal_object couldn't get IPSFactory buffer for interface
{6d5140c1-7436-11ce-8034-00aa006009fa}
  err:ole:StdMarshalImpl_MarshalInterface Failed to create ifstub,
hres=0x80004002
  err:ole:CoMarshalInterface Failed to marshal the interface
{6d5140c1-7436-11ce-8034-00aa006009fa}, 80004002
  err:ole:get_local_server_stream Failed: 80004002
  err:ole:marshal_object couldn't get IPSFactory buffer for interface
{00000131-0000-0000-c000-000000000046}
  err:ole:marshal_object couldn't get IPSFactory buffer for interface
{6d5140c1-7436-11ce-8034-00aa006009fa}
  err:ole:StdMarshalImpl_MarshalInterface Failed to create ifstub,
hres=0x80004002
  err:ole:CoMarshalInterface Failed to marshal the interface
{6d5140c1-7436-11ce-8034-00aa006009fa}, 80004002
  err:ole:get_local_server_stream Failed: 80004002
  Could not load wine-gecko. HTML rendering will be disabled.
  Could not load wine-gecko. HTML rendering will be disabled.
  wine: configuration in '/home/r/.wine' has been updated.
  wine: cannot find L"C:\windows\system32\echo.exe"

For some reason, the prefix creation time went down to 30sec. As far as I know,
I did not change anything since the last attempts, other than putting the
machine into standby for the night.

[Bug 40044] Wine prefix creation is really slow

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40044

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--- Comment #9 from [e-mail] ---
Could this bug be related to or dupe of bug 17548?

[Bug 40044] Wine prefix creation is really slow

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40044

--- Comment #10 from [e-mail] ---
(In reply to winetest from comment #9)
> Could this bug be related to or dupe of bug 17548?

Hmm. Actually no? All the comments are about the missing gecko.

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Rosanne DiMesio  changed:

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--- Comment #11 from Rosanne DiMesio  ---
Is this still an issue for you in 2.0-rc3 or later using the WineHQ packages?

[Bug 40044] Wine prefix creation is really slow

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40044

--- Comment #12 from Ralf Jung  ---
Sorry, I never tried the WineHQ packages.  In my experience, things work much
better when I do not add additional repositories to APT.  However, since it is
likely that the bug is caused by Debian's patch, I guess I should report it
downstream.

Prefix creation now takes a minute on my new machine (Skylake Quadcore, SSD). 
Is that a normal, expected time or should it be way faster?

[Bug 40044] Wine prefix creation is really slow

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40044

--- Comment #13 from Austin English  ---
(In reply to Ralf Jung from comment #12)
> Sorry, I never tried the WineHQ packages.  In my experience, things work
> much better when I do not add additional repositories to APT.  However,
> since it is likely that the bug is caused by Debian's patch, I guess I
> should report it downstream.
>
> Prefix creation now takes a minute on my new machine (Skylake Quadcore,
> SSD).  Is that a normal, expected time or should it be way faster?

Not here (with Debian packages):
real    0m1.714s
user    0m0.004s
sys    0m0.004s

do you have a lot of network printers on your network, by chance (bug 3507)?

[Bug 40044] Wine prefix creation is really slow

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40044

--- Comment #14 from Ralf Jung  ---
No, there are no printers in that network.  However, I do have some printers
set up in my local cups that were not reachable at the time of yesterday's
test.

For some strange reason though, I am now unable to reproduce the issue.

$ rm .wine/ -rf && time wine echo[...]
Could not load wine-gecko. HTML rendering will be disabled.
Could not load wine-gecko. HTML rendering will be disabled.
wine: configuration in '/home/r/.wine' has been updated.
wine: cannot find L"C:\windows\system32\echo.exe"

real    0m2.256s
user    0m0.008s
sys     0m0.000s

This is in a different network; in particular, the aforementioned network
printers *are* reachable.  I will try again in my home network later today.
This may also explain why the time went down from 2min to 1min... I have since
set up my machine again.  While I used to have 4 network printers configured in
cups, now there are only 2.  Sounds like it takes 30sec per printer.

[Bug 40044] Wine prefix creation is really slow

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40044

--- Comment #15 from Ralf Jung  ---
Confirmed that creation is still slow in my home network. It is fast if I have
no network, probably because it then gets "no route" immediately and doesn't
try to reach anything.

[Bug 40044] Wine prefix creation is really slow

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40044

--- Comment #16 from Bruno Jesus  ---
Please see bug 41131 and ensure your cups version is >= 2.2.1 to check if it is
not a duplicate.

[Bug 40044] Wine prefix creation is really slow

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40044

--- Comment #17 from Ralf Jung  ---
I am on CUPS 2.2.1-4 (Debian testing amd64).

[Bug 40044] Wine prefix creation is really slow

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Jens Reyer  changed:

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--- Comment #18 from Jens Reyer  ---
Minor remarks:
- I can't reproduce this with the Debian packages.
- You may save the gecko installer to ~/.cache/wine/.

[Bug 40044] Wine prefix creation is really slow

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https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40044

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--- Comment #19 from joaopa  ---
Still occurs for me with wine-5.4.