[Bug 2579] New: Wine hangs up the whole system on startup

[Wine Bugs]

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2579

Summary: Wine hangs up the whole system on startup
           Product: Wine
           Version: 20041019
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: blocker
          Priority: P2
         Component: wine-binary
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]

I'm trying to get Wine-20041019 running on a Toshiba Satellite Pro 4270 notebook
(hardware/software specification can be found below). Both when using the
precompiled binaries and compiling Wine from scratch, when I run the `wine'
binary for the first time, it prints out the information about creating font
indexes and when it gets to 100%, my system is pretty much dead. It's totally
unresponding, the cursor isn't moving, the keyboard isn't reacting and the only
solution is to press the POWER button. I would have sent some output but
actually I don't get any! Don't know what to do, even which direction to go...
And I'm quite fed up with losing 5 minutes each time fsck is run...

Some info about the environment: Celeron 500, 320 MB RAM, Savage IX (8 MB VRAM),
Yamaha sound card, 40 GB Samsung HDD. Slackware 10.0 with a 2.4.27 kernel (my
very own build, _without_ any VFAT or MSDOS support - perhaps this is the issue?).