[Bug 7285] winecfg hangs forever in creation of .wine subdirectory

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7285

--- Comment #16 from Vitaliy Margolen   2007-12-15 11:02:39 ---
(In reply to comment #15)
> I tried all of wine 0.9.44, 0.9.47 and 0.9.51 today. Every single one of them
> hung when attempting to create config files. And in all cases the respective
> wineserver wouldn't die when sending SIGKILL signals.

This indicates serious problem in your kernel. Please open bug with your
distro, not 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?