Access violation message when installing Advanced Diary 9.0 with Wine on a Linux system

But when I clicked on Install, I saw the message "Invalid operation in GDI+ (Code: 2)".

When I canceled the installation and closed the window associated with it, I saw an error window stating "The setup files are corrupted. Please obtain a new copy of the program."

I had encountered the same "Invalid operation in GDI+ (Code: 2)" problem many months ago (the setup file wasn't actually corrupted, so I could ignore that message) when I installed a previous version of Advanced Diary, version 8.0, on another system using Wine — see Installing Advanced Diary on a Linux system with Wine — and remembered that I had used a shell script then to install additional software for Wine that would alleviate that problem. I needed Winetricks installed, so I verified I had already installed it on this system with the which command (you can install it with sudo apt install winetricks, if it is not installed).

alice@Wonderland:~$ which winetricks
/usr/local/bin/winetricks
alice@Wonderland:~$

But I modified the installation script I had used previously so that it no longer created a 32-bit prefix, since I mistakenly thought the newer version of Advanced Diary, 9.0, was a 64-bit Windows application (I'm not sure now if the script modification was the source of the problem). I used the shell script (installAdvDiary9.sh) below to install the 9.0 version of Advanced Diary from a terminal window after making it executable with chmod +x installAdvDiary.exe:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

set -e

if [ -z "$1" ]; then
  echo "Usage: $0 AdvDiary.exe"
  exit 1
fi

INSTALLER="$(realpath "$1")"
PREFIX="$HOME/.wine-advdiary"

echo "Creating Wine prefix..."
export WINEPREFIX="$PREFIX"
winecfg -v win10 >/dev/null 2>&1 || true

echo "Installing required components (gdiplus, corefonts)..."
winetricks -q gdiplus corefonts

echo "Forcing native GDI+..."
cat > "$PREFIX/user.reg" <<'EOF'
[Software\\Wine\\DllOverrides]
"gdiplus"="native"
EOF

echo "Running Advanced Diary installer..."
wine "$INSTALLER"

echo
echo "✔ Installation complete"
echo "Run with:"
echo "WINEPREFIX=$PREFIX wine \"$PREFIX/drive_c/Program Files/Advanced Diary/Diary.exe\""

During the installation process, I saw a small setup window with nothing in it but a black background. However, I was able to get to a window where by pressing the Alt-Tab keys to cycle through open windows. But then when I switched to another window and tried to switch back, that setup window did not reappear, though I saw a gear icon representing it. I was able to get back to it by minimizing all open windows until I saw the GNOME desktop again. I then saw the License Agreement window for Advanced Diary where I could proceed by accepting the agreement.

I was then given the opportunity to change the installation directory from the default location of C:\Program Files (x86)\Advanced Diary — 32-bit programs are usually placed, by default, in

C:\Program
Files (x86)

I didn't change the location for the installation nor any of the other default selections when I was presented with other options. The software appeared to successfully install, but then at the completion of the installation, when it was to open automatically, I saw the message "Access violation at address 75D947DC in module 'qcap.dll'. Read of address 5F505353."

When I clicked on OK to close that window, though, the program opened and seemed to be functioning properly.

When I closed the program, I saw a small window informing me that "Your connection to a server has been lost or terminated by database administrator. Please restart Advanced Diary."

I right-clicked on the AdvancedDiary.desktop shortcut and chose "Allow Launching"

When I double-clicked on that shortcut, I saw the same access violation message as I had previously seen, but the program did open as it had before. I queried ChatGPT about the problem and it provided the response here. I followed ChatGPT's advice to check on whether Wine was using its own qcap.dll by running WINEDEBUG=+loaddll wine AdvancedDiary.exe 2>&1 | grep qcap and saw the following output:

alice@Wonderland:~$ echo $WINEPREFIX

alice@Wonderland:~$ export WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.wine-advdiary"alice@Wonderland:~$ echo $WINEPREFIX
/home/alice@Wonderland/.wine-advdiary
alice@Wonderland:~$ WINEDEBUG=+loaddll wine AdvancedDiary.exe 2>&1 | grep qcap
alice@Wonderland:~$

I looked for the qcap.dll file under the Wine prefix and found there were two instances of it, one in the windows/system32 and windows/syswow64.

alice@Wonderland:~$ find ~/.wine-advdiary/drive_c/windows/ -name 'qcap.dll' -print
/home/alice@Wonderland/.wine-advdiary/drive_c/windows/system32/qcap.dll
/home/alice@Wonderland/.wine-advdiary/drive_c/windows/syswow64/qcap.dll
alice@Wonderland:~$

I didn't see an indication that Wine was using a built-in qcap.dll file, but since ChatGPT stated that the problem I was seeing could be due to a Wine compatibility issue, I thought I should try its suggestion to use a native Windows qcap.dll by issuing the command winetricks quartz or winetricks wmp9. First, I checked the the "existing overrides" value in the Libraries tab where I saw "*gdiplus (native)".

I then ran winetricks quartz in a terminal window and saw a RegSvr32 window appear with the message "regsvr32: Successfully registered DLL 'quartz.dll'".

When I ran winecfg, I then saw "*gdiplus (native)" and "*quartz (native, builtin)" under "existing overrides".

In the Wine configuration window, I selected the Libraries tab, then under "New override for library" selected qcap.

Then with qcap selected in the "New override for library" field, I clicked on the Add button. I then saw

qcap (native,
builtin)

appear in the "Existing overrides" field. I clicked on Ok to close the window.

But I still saw the same error message when I opened Advanced Diary. When I ran the WINEDEBUG command again and checked the Windows registry, I saw the following:

alice@Wonderland:~$ WINEDEBUG=+loaddll wine AdvancedDiary.exe 2>&1 | grep qcap
alice@Wonderland:~$ wine reg query "HKCU\Software\Wine\DllOverrides"

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\DllOverrides
    *gdiplus    REG_SZ    native
    *quartz    REG_SZ    native,builtin
    qcap    REG_SZ    native,builtin

alice@Wonderland:~$ WINEDEBUG=+loaddll wine "$HOME/.wine-advdiary/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Advanced Diary/AdvancedDiary.exe" 2>&1 | grep qcap
0124:trace:loaddll:build_module Loaded L"C:\\windows\\system32\\qcap.dll" at 75ED0000: builtin
alice@Wonderland:~$

I queried Google's Gemini AI about the problem, which provided the response here. I followed its advice for disabling qcap.dll. I ran the Wine Configuration utility for the relevant prefix (I had previously used the command export WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.wine-advdiary" in the still open terminal window, so I only had to use winecfg to run the utility using the relevant prefix). Then, under the Libraries tab, I selected the qcap entry, then chose Edit and selected Disable.

I then saw the qcap entry as "qcap (disabled)" and clicked on OK to close the Wine configuration window.

I was then able to start Advanced Diary without the access violation message appearing. I no longer saw the "Your connection to a server has been lost or terminated by database administrator. Please restart Advanced Diary" message when closing the program, either.