https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43093
--- Comment #4 from Zebediah Figura z.figura12@gmail.com --- After some further testing it seems that this error is not directly related to the hang. Launching the installer but then immediately canceling out of it yields the same frozen "Installing prerequisite software" screen, but the relevant code that the patch fixes is never reached.
Running the program under a debugger on Windows shows that there is in fact a dangling pipe which is never connected. I am not yet sure why this happens.