https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57202
--- Comment #5 from tjb steampunque8@gmail.com --- (In reply to Esme Povirk from comment #1)
Is this still a problem with Wine 9.17?
Can you get a log with WINEDEBUG=mscoree WINE_MONO_TRACE=x ?
Further testing shows this problem can be replicated reliably with all wines from 8.19 through 9.17 as follows:
1) Install the wine version
2) Start the steam client as the first program to be run after the install. The updating wine diaglogue box will appear.
3) An infinite number of maximum number of clients reached messages will spam to the console and steam will not load.
4) Manually kill all processes in the steam client.
5) start steam again. No updating diaglogue box will appear, no spam messages will appear and the steam client should start.
I'm pretty sure my bisect is valid, i.e. mono 8.10 and above was the trigger for this type of behavior. It does appear the problem can be worked around through a simple manual kill and restart of the client, though I am not sure if it will stay working or randomly start happening again as in the past I am pretty sure I was able to get constant failure even after manually killing wine and restarting (though not 100% certain on that point).