http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34066
Bug #: 34066 Summary: Wine looping endlessly on first run, and when installing Steam Product: Wine Version: 1.6-rc5 Platform: x86 OS/Version: Mac OS X Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: -unknown AssignedTo: wine-bugs@winehq.org ReportedBy: camillo.lugaresi+wine@gmail.com Classification: Unclassified
When first running Wine after installation, the prefix gets created or updated. Under Wine 1.6rc5, wine (running wineboot?) seems to get into an infinite loop. If you try to launch other Wine program, they hand for a few minutes before finally continuing with the message "err:process:__wine_kernel_init boot event wait timed out". After killing the initial runaway wine process, the problem seems to go away.
When trying to install Steam, msiexec also gets into an endless loop. There is, again, a runaway wine process taking up a whole CPU. However, in this case, other wine programs can launch normally while msiexec is stuck.