http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7285
--- Comment #31 from Giel van Schijndel me@mortis.eu 2008-12-27 09:24:42 ---
This indicates serious problem in your kernel. Please open bug with your distro, not Wine.
I just got this problem again today. After some digging and doing an strace I discovered that it's neither a problem with my kernel nor wine.
The only possible cause of that on Wine side would be hung I/O with some storage device. Are all your HDDs, CD-ROMs functioning properly?
My CD/DVD-ROM drive (Pioneer DVD-120S) in combination with HAL seemed to be the problem. Apparently HAL would lock up whenever it tried to poll my drive's status. As a result *all* applications trying to open /dev/hdb (blockdevice associated with my drive) would lock up.
Disabling device polling with a config snippet like this fixed the problem: /etc/hal/fdi/policy/disable-hdb-polling.fdi: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!-- -*- SGML -*- --> <deviceinfo version="0.2"> <device> <match key="block.device" string="/dev/hdb"> <merge key="info.addons" type="strlist"></merge> </match> </device> </deviceinfo>