http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21490
Summary: Debug build of Chromium aborts on startup because GdiInitializeLanguagePack() returns failure Product: Wine Version: 1.1.32 Platform: x86 OS/Version: Linux Status: NEW Keywords: download, patch, source Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: gdi32 AssignedTo: wine-bugs@winehq.org ReportedBy: dank@kegel.com
This was mentioned in passing in bug 20671. You can run a debug build of Chromium on Wine with --no-sandbox, but you have to get GdiInitializeLanguagePack to return success first, or it will abort early with [41:42:5571:FATAL:render_process.cc(62)] Check failed: gdi_init_lpk. The patch attached to bug 20671 does the trick.
http://m-a-tech.blogspot.com/2009/04/emf-buffer-idiocracy.html explains why Chrome calls that function; it's needed to make native behave.