New subject: [Bug 57752] Reason (DAW) fails to start when wine's user "music" subdirectory is a symbolic link

28 Jan 2025


      https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57752
Bug ID: 57752
           Summary: Reason (DAW) fails to start when wine's user "music"
                    subdirectory is a symbolic link
           Product: Wine-staging
           Version: unspecified
          Hardware: x86-64
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
          Assignee: wine-bugs@winehq.org
          Reporter: schroedingerscat@disroot.org
                CC: leslie_alistair@hotmail.com, z.figura12@gmail.com
      Distribution: ---
Created attachment 77956
  --> https://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=77956
Log from when the error dialog "Internal Error" is shown
ReasonStudio's DAW Reason v13 and v12 (and possibly earlier versions, too)
behave wrong when having to access a directory that is a symbolic link on the
user's ext4/btrfs drive.
This problem only affects staging builds (tested with v9.21, v9.22 and v10.0).
Builds from the same version via mainline do not exhibit this behavior.
The problems are:
1. Reason fails to start with an "Internal Error" when
$WINEPREFIX/drive_c/users/username/Music is a symbolic link (which is the
default for a new wineprefix)
2. Reason's Browser shows an empty directory if you browse to a directory that
contains a symbolic link
How to reproduce problem 1:
1. Use a staging build of a recent wine version, like 10.0
2. In the following step, ignore the command "winetricks isolate_home" from the
installation instructions as that will replace the user directory's symbolic
links with real directories
3. Follow download and installation instructions from the "Additional Comments"
section here:
https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=42495
4. Running from the instructions will fail with an error dialog showing
"Internal Error"
How to reproduce problem 2:
1. Use a staging build of a recent wine version, like 10.0
2. In the following step, do execute the command "winetricks isolate_home" from
the installation instructions so the app starts
3. Follow download and installation instructions from the "Additional Comments"
section here:
https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=42495
4. (if not authorized) click on "run in demo mode" (dialog might open without
focus behind Reason's splash screen)
5. Finish initial configuration wizard
6. In a path your current Wineprefix can access, create a symbolic link to a
directory
7. Open Reason's Browser (F9)
8. Navigate to the directory containing your newly created symbolic link via
the browser's side pane "Computer" -> the directory containing the symbolic
link will be shown as empty
Both problems do not happen in a mainline build indicating that this only
happens in staging builds. I've attached a log from when the "Internal Error"
dialog is shown.
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[Bug 57752] New: Reason (DAW) fails to start when wine's user "music" subdirectory is a symbolic link