http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33106
--- Comment #1 from Stephen E. Baker cycoone@hotmail.com 2013-03-02 14:32:29 CST --- Alright, like a lot of the crashes that seem to plague Rosetta 4 under Linux, this one doesn't always happen. I reproduced it 3 times killing the wineserver between each, then on the 4th my activation went through.
I also wanted to mention that the Please Wait hang doesn't last forever after the crash, eventually it brings up a dialog saying that it cannot connect to the internet and asks whether to try again or use an offline registration method. I was planning to try the offline method when my registration attempt worked.