http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24526
--- Comment #14 from Dan Kegel dank@kegel.com 2010-09-27 10:51:42 CDT --- Maverick has a known problem, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/Roadmap/KernelHardening#ptrace%20Protec...
The workaround for the Maverick problem is echo 0 | sudo tee /proc/sys/kernel/yama/ptrace_scope
After that, if you install the app into an empty .wine, you probably shouldn't see the warning you saw before: ptrace of non-child pid 4994 was attempted by: wineserver (pid 4974)
Does that help?