http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30914
--- Comment #4 from Dan Kegel dank@kegel.com 2012-07-16 09:49:04 CDT --- Maybe you're suffering from bug 30410. If you're using Ubuntu 12.10, try echo 0|sudo tee /proc/sys/kernel/yama/ptrace_scope before running the already-installed app.