http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15737
--- Comment #44 from James Lewis james@fsck.co.uk 2009-10-14 02:39:49 --- Quoting a post on another thread regarding this problem:-
"... I have just booted Karmic beta (14th oct updates) using Jaunty's 2.6.28-15 kernel and my previous Eve configuration with wine 1.1.31 from WineHQ works perfectly. I had tried every other workaround seen on forums with kernel 2.6.31 with no luck.
Since upgrading to Karmic beta: kernel 2.6.31, wine 1.1.31 failed 50 of 50 times over many reboots kernel 2.6.28, wine 1.1.31 has just now worked perfectly 10 times"
Could there be a bug in wine, or even the app, which is sensitive to kernel behaviour... scheduling?