I’ve been running Battle_net/WoW Classic fine for a few months now. This evening when I went to log on I got hit with a "“Battle_net Update Agent asleep” error. I followed the guides about removing the battle.net directory, but no luck. I’ve now completely removed it via Lutris and check that the install directory is gone. When re-installing through Lutris the installation pauses at 45% for a while, then then installer gives a “trouble launching the Battle_net Update Agent” error. Any ideas on how to fix this?
Glad I am not the only one. Tried it through bottles, and steam also same issues. I also booted up Pop_OS over Fedora. Same issues.
EDIT: the below fixes worked downloading wine-staging-tkg (Kron4ek) - 10.6 via ProtonPlus and adding to Lutris was a good call. Just make sure in Lutris before you go to reinstall battlenet to change the default runner to this on the main Lutris screen BEFORE attempting to reinstall battlenet or it’ll hang at 45% again. I used the Lutris battlenet installer but downloaded the .exe installer from bnet directly and added it manually, not sure this made any difference but it still worked fine. I did this on my all intel laptop with integrated gfx on Fedora42-KDE will do this again when I get home on the desktop also.
Tried delete and reinstall and hung on 45%.
Restoring the folder I can sit on the reconnect screen but it crashes at some point.
You can still go through the shop screen though…
I cant even get to the store page. If I do get into the launcher it just has an “issue with agent” error. I tried a bunch of different runners, one did work I cant remember which one. Still trying a few workarounds.
Hey. Probs with Linux Mint (21.3 & 22.1) here too. While is was playing (3 hours ago) the Game freezes. One Minute later i "xkill"ed it. After this the same as by blackPhillip. Except my Battlenet freezes after a few seconds. I checked my Hardware. All seems to be fine with my PC. In the next Step i tried a Rollback with Timeshift. But the Probs are still there. So i installed Linux Mint 22.1 Cinnamon. Here is the 45% Prob during the Installation-Process. I tried Flatpak and System-Version…
Similar issue with the freezing. Had a freeze mid-game. Then bnet was hanging and acting funny. Reinstalling is hit or miss depending on how you do it, sometimes it hangs at 45% installing the .exe directly through steam does not have this issue. But all issues past that persist.
The battlenet Agent is having issues communicating with their servers. There was a similar issue sometime ago I read about on reddit.
Nothing new to add but a +1 here. Pop OS 22.04, wine 10 stable, bnet worked fine 2 days ago but is giving me the “Agent Asleep Trying to Wake It” message (BLZBNTBNA00000005).
Tried uninstalling and reinstalling and, as above, the process stalled and then failed at 45%.
Once it has extracted, make sure lutris is not running and launch lutris.
Right click bnet entry → configure → runner options tab → wine version and select the wine-staging 10.6 tkg version from the list → save and press play. DO NOT INSTALL MONO IF IT PROMPTS YOU!!!
Confirm working on Fedora 42, Lutris 0.5.19.
Install ProtonPlus Flatpak
In protonplus select “Lutris”, Wine, Win-Staging-Tkg, install version 10.6
Launch Lutris, Rightclick configure your BattleNet
Setting Runner options “Wine version” to “wine-10.6-staging-tkg-amd64” and hit cancel on Mono install
Hello can confirm for Ubuntu 25.04, Bottles not launching battle net since today with Soda 9.01 but following the the above, with Wine staging 10.6 TKG it runs . But I no longer have Gsync, not on wayland nor X11 with the Gsync indicator on… Anyone got a clue?
Boy am I glad this thread exists.
Working on Linux Mint 22.1, using the “wine-10.6-staging-tkg-amd64” in Lutris worked like a charm.
I typically launch from Steam, and using proton experimental worked there as well.
I switched proton versions back and forth and the GE version (9-27) simply no longer works for me even after updating with experimental (Agent went to sleep error), so experimental it is for the foreseeable future. Thanks everyone