Hi,
I need help getting ping to work under wine on Ubuntu 16.04. I am trying to run a Battlefield Bad Company 2 server for testing (I might be doing some development on a mod at some point) and I am unable to get it to a playable state. I can run mase_bc2 and Frost.Game.Main_Win32_Final.exe and even connect to the LAN server in game - but, when loading a map, it does not continue loading and instead the game freezes.
Here is the error that I need to solve to get the server playable: 0049:err:winediag:IcmpCreateFile Failed to use ICMP (network ping), this requires special permissions.
When I do wine cmd
and then ping
I simply get this:
Z:\home\user> ping google.com
0075:fixme:ping:main this command currently just sleeps based on -n parameter
Here is what I have tried:
sudo chmod 4755 /bin/ping
to allow wine to access ping. This did not help.
I then tried this:
sudo setcap cap_net_raw+epi "$(readlink -f "/usr/bin/wine")"
which results in this error:
wine: error while loading shared libraries: libwine.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
and then separately after running sudo setcap -r "$(readlink -f "/usr/bin/wine")"
to remove the shared libraries error, I also ran this:
sudo setcap 'cap_net_bind_service=+ep' "$(readlink -f "/usr/bin/wine-preloader")"
Both setcap
commands result in the same shared libraries error.
I’m decent at Linux but it seems this is beyond my level and I need help with this. I have searched thread after thread online and I came up empty. If someone can solve this for me, this may be one of the only sources of fixing this issue (bug??) on the Internet.
I see there is someone else having this issue here: https://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=30704 and he even gets the same error as me after using setcap
however he did not get this issue solved.
UPDATE Sep 7 2018: creating a symlink at /usr/lib/libwine.so.1
removes the shared libraries
error, but I am still unable to ping via wine.
UPDATE Sep 8 2018: This seems to be a known bug and is fixed in Wine Development 3.15: https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43252
Thanks.