http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30735
--- Comment #18 from Ulrich Brammer ubrammer@t-online.de 2012-12-05 15:15:08 CST --- In the meantime I tried several things to narrow down the bug: Changing to Debian Wheezy, made tests in two virtual machines. Lastly I found a hint. Wine does not handle correctly may old floppy drive, which was all the time installed in my computer. After disabling the floppy in the bios, everything worked well, except of the floppy drive of course.
I attach a snippet of a relay trace, which shows the behavior. Excel tries several time to access the floppy at each start. The console shows every time the "fixme: CDROM GetMediaType faking success" messages.
There is also an another bug. Even if the floppy drive is disabled in winecfg, it is added later again in the registry by just running other programs like regedit.