https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40044
--- Comment #8 from Ralf Jung post+wine@ralfj.de --- Yes, these are the Debian packages.
The log is not all that informative:
err:ole:marshal_object couldn't get IPSFactory buffer for interface {00000131-0000-0000-c000-000000000046} err:ole:marshal_object couldn't get IPSFactory buffer for interface {6d5140c1-7436-11ce-8034-00aa006009fa} err:ole:StdMarshalImpl_MarshalInterface Failed to create ifstub, hres=0x80004002 err:ole:CoMarshalInterface Failed to marshal the interface {6d5140c1-7436-11ce-8034-00aa006009fa}, 80004002 err:ole:get_local_server_stream Failed: 80004002 err:ole:marshal_object couldn't get IPSFactory buffer for interface {00000131-0000-0000-c000-000000000046} err:ole:marshal_object couldn't get IPSFactory buffer for interface {6d5140c1-7436-11ce-8034-00aa006009fa} err:ole:StdMarshalImpl_MarshalInterface Failed to create ifstub, hres=0x80004002 err:ole:CoMarshalInterface Failed to marshal the interface {6d5140c1-7436-11ce-8034-00aa006009fa}, 80004002 err:ole:get_local_server_stream Failed: 80004002 Could not load wine-gecko. HTML rendering will be disabled. Could not load wine-gecko. HTML rendering will be disabled. wine: configuration in '/home/r/.wine' has been updated. wine: cannot find L"C:\windows\system32\echo.exe"
For some reason, the prefix creation time went down to 30sec. As far as I know, I did not change anything since the last attempts, other than putting the machine into standby for the night.