http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14108
--- Comment #3 from Claudio sick_soul@yahoo.it 2008-06-25 06:26:47 --- (In reply to comment #2)
Probably your CUPS setup is broken.
Well in a sense it is, I have no CUPS at all, I do not need it.
I tried starting the cupsd, and indeed this lets wine run again.
Thank you for the workaround, although I still think that wine should run even though cups is not available.