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Lutris suddenly not working with proton (suddenly fixed idk why) (lemmygrad.ml)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Xiisadaddy@lemmygrad.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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Im kinda baffled. I use lutris for launching windows games in linux and for the longest time now its worked great. Well i was playing a game and it was working fine. i closed it went and did some other stuff for an hour or so and came back. When i went to launch it suddenly its throwing errors about needing umu to launch proton even tho proton worked just fine not an hour ago. I think ok ive had issues with flatpacks before. Let me uninstall the flatpack and get the system package. I do so and now proton doesnt even appear as an option in the configure menu. I googled around and i cant find any similar issue. The thing that really baffles me is it just seems to have stopped working for no reason. I didnt update anything, didnt change anything. The Lutris on my desktop still works perfectly fine too. Its just the one on my laptop doesnt want to use proton now? Anyone experienced this and know whats up? The umu thing it mentioned at first would need to be compiled from the github and i know thats not something Lutris normally needs since i have had it working without doing that and currently do on my desktop. I guess i could manually install it anyway but i worry itll just make things worse.

Edit: Its suddenly working again i have no idea why

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[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There doesn't seem to be a bug report for this. Maybe you can make one and get a workaround on the way.

[–] Xiisadaddy@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Issue is i have no idea how to reproduce it because i didnt do anything to cause it lol. So i have very limited info to give them at this point. Edit: Also i literally just went and tried it again the next day and it has miraculously fixed itself....

[–] Xiisadaddy@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Didnt reboot or anything either. Laptop was suspended. Just opened lutris and suddenly proton works again lol

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I guess Lutris downloads some updates by itself without updating the main app. So probably whoever caused the issue in the first place probably fixed it using the same mechanism.

[–] Xiisadaddy@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 month ago

ya that may be it

[–] Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It would be very nice if you updated the title and the post description that that issue is fixed.