http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12363
--- Comment #12 from Nick Bowler nbowler@draconx.ca 2010-09-12 13:15:49 CDT --- I think I see what's wrong here.
I have drive "D:" configured to /mnt/cdrom, and the 'd::' dosdevices symlink points to /dev/sr0.
With nothing mounted, the permissions on /mnt/cdrom are:
drwx------ 2 root root 4.0K Dec 9 2009 /mnt/cdrom
This normally isn't a problem, because when a filesystem is mounted, the permissions on that filesystem supersede the permissions on the mount point.
However, audio CDs do not have filesystems which get mounted, so upon starting EAC these permissions are still there, and wine hangs! chmod go+rx /mnt/cdrom allows EAC to start normally for me.