http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7893
--- Comment #6 from Austin English austinenglish@gmail.com 2010-06-12 01:19:53 --- For me in 1.2-rc3, same as in comment #1. I tried this on a windows xp VM, with no serial port configured, and got the same error, so wine is matching windows there.
Dan/Niko, can you see if this still locks up for you, and if not, please close.