http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27057
--- Comment #17 from Austin English austinenglish@gmail.com 2011-06-29 00:17:57 CDT --- (In reply to comment #14)
I don't know if this is the same issue, but after updating to 4.2, WoW died on me, so I went to reinstall it.
It doesn't matter if a use a new wine prefix, wine 1.3.15, or wine 1.3.22. The initial install process runs fine, the Launcher starts, downloads "updated tools," restarts the Launcher, and then crashes every time on 'Initializing, please wait.' Then it sits for a while, showing a little activity in the terminal, before stopping and appearing to go no further. I have to exit the process properly elsewhere.
That's a separate bug.