VST plugins not loading anymore on Arch

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Hello,

Today when I opened LMMS to work on my VST plugin-heavy projects, I noticed that they're not loading at all. The plugins just freeze up LMMS until finally RemoteVstPlugin.exe crashes and the freezing is over. Sometimes I get the following error message from Wine:

"The program RemoteVstPlugin.exe has encountered a serious problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience. This can be caused by a problem in the program or a deficiency in Wine."

I suspect deficiency in Wine, as I haven't had problems before the 8.3-1 version. The 8.4 version isn't yet in the AUR so I don't know if it fixes anything.

However, I might be stupid and the reason could be something completely different. Thoughts?
Can you go back to the wine version, that did work ?
I'm running into this problem as well.

OS: Ubuntu 22.04
wine version: wine-staging 8.5~jammy-1
LMMS version: lmms-1.3.0-alpha.1.102+g89fc6c9-linux-x86_64.AppImage

I had to downgrade all the way to 8.2 to get VST plugins to load again.

For OP, I created a BASH script to launch LMMS and make it use an alternate installation of wine (without touching its current installation):

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export ALT_WINE_HOME=~/.local/share/lutris/runners/wine/lutris-ge-lol-7.0-5-x86_64
export ALT_WINE=$ALT_WINE_HOME/bin/wine
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$ALT_WINE_HOME/bin:$ALT_WINE_HOME/lib:$ALT_WINE_HOME/lib64
export WINEPREFIX=~/.wine_lmms

alias wine=$ALT_WINE
WINEPREFIX=$WINEPREFIX LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH lmms-1.3.0-alpha.1.102+g89fc6c9-linux-x86_64.AppImage
Note that: 1) I use lutris to download and manage alternate wine installs. 2) I put the LMMS AppImage file in my path, but if you're running it from a different command, just use that. 3) This script uses an alternate WINEPREFIX just to be safe.
puzzud wrote:
Thu Apr 06, 2023 2:26 pm
I'm running into this problem as well.

OS: Ubuntu 22.04
wine version: wine-staging 8.5~jammy-1
LMMS version: lmms-1.3.0-alpha.1.102+g89fc6c9-linux-x86_64.AppImage

I had to downgrade all the way to 8.2 to get VST plugins to load again.

For OP, I created a BASH script to launch LMMS and make it use an alternate installation of wine (without touching its current installation):

Code: Select all

export ALT_WINE_HOME=~/.local/share/lutris/runners/wine/lutris-ge-lol-7.0-5-x86_64
export ALT_WINE=$ALT_WINE_HOME/bin/wine
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$ALT_WINE_HOME/bin:$ALT_WINE_HOME/lib:$ALT_WINE_HOME/lib64
export WINEPREFIX=~/.wine_lmms

alias wine=$ALT_WINE
WINEPREFIX=$WINEPREFIX LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH lmms-1.3.0-alpha.1.102+g89fc6c9-linux-x86_64.AppImage
Note that: 1) I use lutris to download and manage alternate wine installs. 2) I put the LMMS AppImage file in my path, but if you're running it from a different command, just use that. 3) This script uses an alternate WINEPREFIX just to be safe.
Thanks for adding this info to the forum!
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