I've tried finding a solution to this, but can't find anything. Not even
a similar problem. If someone has posted this before, but under a different
problem description, I will gracefully accept whatever flaming may be rendered
upon me.
I'll try to provide as much information as possible. I was trying to launch
Steam on my laptop while not connected to any network (hard-wire or wireless)
and nothing ever happened. I checked ps aux for Steam and, sure enough, it was
showing as running. But I couldn't do anything with it. Thinking the install
might be corrupt, I connected to the hard-wire network to find a solution when
suddenly it came up! At first I thought it might have just taken longer than
usual to load, but I closed and re-opened it to make sure it was working and,
sure enough, it was working fine. So I once again disconnected the network and
tried to bring it up. Again, nothing happened. So I plugged the network in again
and it popped up immediately.
I tried to run a different Wine app (PSPad) to see if it was just Steam that was
acting weird, but it's not. It appeared that nothing was going to launch
unless I was connected to a network. (Mind you, it didn't have to be the
internet, I just needed to have an active network connection.)
I did a little digging and decided to unmount a network share I had been using,
but didn't bother to unmount before disconnecting from the network and
apparently THAT was preventing Wine from launching correctly, even though
neither app bore any reference to the mounted directory.
While it isn't a problem for me to unmount network shares before using Wine,
is there a fix for this problem?