Adobe Photoshop

What works

Nothing

What does not

Can't validate with Creative Cloud

Please don't submit "working" reports if you have used a pirated version of Adobe

Workarounds

Install in a VM and copy files over.

What was not tested

Everything

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU: Nvidia
• Driver: proprietary

Additional Comments

The application can't connect to Adobe to validate your CC-account, thereby making the application impossible to start.

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.