http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19179
--- Comment #2 from bart schelehond@gmail.com 2009-07-04 12:39:44 --- (In reply to comment #1)
I've seen this too, when steam wants to update. The thing is, I'm having the same exact problems on win2k. Once out of 5-10 runs steam will hang on start.
I'd say this is an application bug. Can anyone else confirm if they are seeing the same problem on Windows?
I have run steam/css before on XP and Vista machines for several years and never encountered this problem. I wonder if this is an update issue: steam seems to update fine when I delete the clientregistry.blob. Then I start steam and what I described above happens again. When I delete the .blob file, update goes to 99%, and steam closes up.
I would prefer to think this is a Wine issue before giving in to an application issue, it jsut seems implausible as so many others have gotten steam to work.