[SOLVED] Wine wont start: Wine cannot find the FreeType font library

akts · 01-13-2024, 12:07 AM

Hello,

After a fresh slackware 15 install, I installed multilib and then wine from alienbob's repo using slackpkg+.

Code:

slackpkg upgrade multilib
slackpkg install multilib

Running any .exe using wine is giving me the following error.

Code:

preloader: Warning: failed to reserve range 00010000-00110000
preloader: Warning: failed to reserve range 0000000000010000-0000000000110000
preloader: Warning: failed to reserve range 0000000000010000-0000000000110000
preloader: Warning: failed to reserve range 0000000000010000-0000000000110000
preloader: Warning: failed to reserve range 0000000000010000-0000000000110000
preloader: Warning: failed to reserve range 0000000000010000-0000000000110000
007c:fixme:hid:handle_IRP_MN_QUERY_ID Unhandled type 00000005
preloader: Warning: failed to reserve range 0000000000010000-0000000000110000
preloader: Warning: failed to reserve range 0000000000010000-0000000000110000
007c:fixme:hid:handle_IRP_MN_QUERY_ID Unhandled type 00000005
007c:fixme:hid:handle_IRP_MN_QUERY_ID Unhandled type 00000005
007c:fixme:hid:handle_IRP_MN_QUERY_ID Unhandled type 00000005
preloader: Warning: failed to reserve range 0000000000010000-0000000000110000
preloader: Warning: failed to reserve range 0000000000010000-0000000000110000
Wine cannot find the FreeType font library.  To enable Wine to
use TrueType fonts please install a version of FreeType greater than
or equal to 2.0.5.
http://www.freetype.org
preloader: Warning: failed to reserve range 00010000-00110000
Wine cannot find the FreeType font library.  To enable Wine to
use TrueType fonts please install a version of FreeType greater than
or equal to 2.0.5.
http://www.freetype.org
preloader: Warning: failed to reserve range 0000000000010000-0000000000110000
MESA-INTEL: warning: Ivy Bridge Vulkan support is incomplete
preloader: Warning: failed to reserve range 0000000000010000-0000000000110000
00d4:err:winediag:nodrv_CreateWindow Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded.
00d4:err:winediag:nodrv_CreateWindow L"The explorer process failed to start."

I've found a couple of threads here addressing this that suggested installing compat32 packages would fix this issue. But wouldn't running

Code:

slackpkg install multilib

do this anyway?

Thanks in advance.

kgha · 01-13-2024, 01:33 AM

Maybe you're missing the freetype-compat32 package?

Might be worth having a look at Alienbob's wiki article https://docs.slackware.com/slackware:multilib (slightly outdated when it comes to the list over available compat32 packages) and see if you've missed something when setting up multilib.

Daedra · 01-13-2024, 01:56 AM

What's the output of this command?

Code:

ls /var/lib/pkgtools/packages/ | grep compat32

akts · 01-13-2024, 03:41 AM

Thank you both.

Quote:

What's the output of this command?

Code:

$ ls /var/lib/pkgtools/packages/ | grep compat32
freetype-compat32-2.11.1-x86_64-1compat32
zlib-compat32-1.2.13-x86_64-1_slack15.0compat32
zstd-compat32-1.5.5-x86_64-1_slack15.0compat32

Quote:

Maybe you're missing the freetype-compat32 package?

Installed it. But no luck!

Code:

 # slackpkg search freetype

Looking for freetype in package list. Please wait... DONE

The list below shows all packages with name matching "freetype".

[inst] multilib    : freetype-compat32-2.11.1-x86_64-1compat32
[inst] slackware64 : freetype-2.11.1-x86_64-1

You can search specific files using "slackpkg file-search file".

kgha · 01-13-2024, 04:29 AM

if ls /var/lib/pkgtools/packages/ | grep compat32 only lists three installed compat32 packages, there might be some other vital 32bit package missing. A full install of AlienBob's multilib package would give a long list, see the content of his multilib repo here:
https://slackware.uk/people/alien/mu...0/PACKAGES.TXT

akts · 01-13-2024, 06:28 AM

That was it!
Thanks kgha and Daedra.

I was missing the compat32 packages.

Code:

slackpkg install compat32

Did a restart afterwards, and wine started working.

Santi90 · 04-08-2024, 04:48 AM

Hello. This post helped me for solve my problem. For other users I will tell, in my case, the problem was the libpng package. The error message was about freetype, but the problem was with libpng.

By trying to install and old windows game, downgrade the libpng package. The solution was remove all libpng packages, and install the slackaware64 15.0 official version again (libpng-1.6.37-x86_64-3.txz, from official web) and the compat32 version (libpng-compat32-1.6.37-x86_64-3compat32.txz, from alien) again.

Thanks you, guys.