With these commands you were still using ~/.wine. You have to either export WINEPREFIX or specify it for every command. Further I think I've seen Wine complaining about "~" in the past, so maybe either use $HOME or the path directly.
To rule out any issues with existing profiles, let's start fresh again, and make sure that the first command is done and the wineserver had time to shut down between the commands. So what happens for: WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=/home/john/.wine32-test wine wineboot sleep 10 WINEPREFIX=/home/john/.wine32-test winecfg ** Changed in: wine1.6 (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1665408 Title: winecfg does not work on 32 bit wine directory To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wine1.6/+bug/1665408/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs