http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21259
--- Comment #1 from Dan Kegel dank@kegel.com 2010-01-05 17:11:31 --- According to ambro718 on irc, who had a related problem, starting the service by hand worked around his problem: mspdbsrv.exe -start -spawn maybe it'd be a useful workaround here, too.