[Bug 44395] wine-preloader causes Nvidia Proprietary page fault on write access in 32-bit code

[wine-bugs at winehq.org]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44395

--- Comment #45 from Herman Tafintsev <germanapps at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to noabody from comment #44)
> This appears to be a bug in the closed-source Nvidia proprietary driver. 
> wine-preloader relies on published information to setup the pre-environment
> for code execution.  Somehow Nvidia's code is non-conformant.
> 
> It's important to note that this bug "hides" itself in the maintainer
> version of Debian based Linux distros because wine-preloader is an optional
> component that is not normally installed.  This is not the case with winehq.
> 
> My work-around was designed to be an "elegant" solution.  Package management
> is unaffected by disabling wine-preloader through removal of its executable
> bit:
> 
> sudo chmod -x /opt/wine-devel/bin/wine-preloader
> or
> sudo chmod -x /opt/wine-stable/bin/wine-preloader

I've installed Wine from official winehq repository. How could this bug happen
to me, if it is only in distro maintainer version?

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