Adobe Photoshop

What works

Nothing

What does not

Creative Cloud doesn't load, so you can't log in, so you can't start the application

Workarounds

As mentioned in other reports, install on a windows-machine and copy everything over.

What was not tested

Everything

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU: Nvidia
• Driver: proprietary

Additional Comments

Since the Creative Cloud-prompt doesn't load it's impossible to use the application. Workarounds involving IE7 and IE8 are useless since those won't work with a win64 prefix.

This is a simple workaround (Python 3) script for Bug 35041 - Multiple apps and games crash with heap corruption or live-lock in libX11 (EA Origin, Garmin Express Fit, SMPlayer, LotRO launcher, Kindle for PC, Conan Exiles)('taskset -c 0 wine ./foo.exe' is a workaround). The script will restart Photoshop, if it fails to launch correctly.

 #!/bin/env python3

import subprocess, re, sys, signal

error_keywords = re.compile('^.*(Assertion|0x65372a0).*$')
success_keywords = re.compile('^.*(list_manager_QueryInterface).*$')
os.environ['__GL_MaxFramesAllowed'] = "1"

exited = False
process = None
successful_launch = False
timeout = 3

def kill_photoshop(signalnum, frame):
   if not successful_launch:
      print("Unsuccessful launch waiting %d seconds, killing Photoshop ..."%timeout, file=sys.stderr)
      process.kill()

signal.signal(signal.SIGALRM, kill_photoshop)

while not exited:
   process = subprocess.Popen(["wine64", "start". "C:\\Program Files\\Adobe\\Adobe Photoshop CC 2019\\Photoshop.exe"], stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
   successful_launch = False
   signal.alarm(timeout)
   while True:
      if process.poll():
         break
      line = process.stderr.readline()
      # print("got line %d and process %s"%(len(line),process.poll()))
      if len(line) == 0 and process.poll() is not None:
         if process.poll() == 0:
            exited = True
         break
      if line:
         print(line.strip())
         if success_keywords.match(str(line)):
            print("Successful Photoshop launch detected", file=sys.stderr)
            successful_launch = True
         if error_keywords.match(str(line)):
            print("Error keyword match, killing process", file=sys.stderr)
            process.kill()
            break
   print("Process return code %d"%process.wait())

Credit: a friend of artik - see A .py script to 100% boot Photoshop CC 2019 using all CPU.