http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6194
--- Comment #21 from Austin English austinenglish@gmail.com 2011-05-09 12:38:02 CDT --- (In reply to comment #18)
Update: I found a copy of WindowsXP-KB842773-v2-x86-enu.exe and ran it. It failed with a "Path not found" dialog. From a +relay log: 001c:Call KERNEL32.FindFirstFileW(005003e0 L"C:\windows\system32\CatRoot\{F750E6C3-38EE-11D1-85E5-00C04FC295EE}\*.cat",0033b7b4) ret=0106fdf8 001c:Ret KERNEL32.FindFirstFileW() retval=ffffffff ret=0106fdf8 001c:Call KERNEL32.GetLastError() ret=0106fe0b 001c:Ret KERNEL32.GetLastError() retval=00000003 ret=0106fe0b
That directory is missing. Creating the directory changes the error to "File not found." So, the installer is expecting a real catalog file to exist there. Creating catalog files is described in more detail in bug 16013.
The same in wine-1.3.19-203-gf555c2d.