Hi, I am new to wine (although I am a programmer), so the question may seem dumb for you, but I couldn't find an answer anywhere, and there was no bug of this sort in the wine bugbase. I tried running wine on my computer, but it fails miserably for any application (e.g. regedit.exe) right after startup. The error is something like: err:win32:EnterCriticalSection timed out, sleeping 60 sec then it sleeps for 60 sec., retries a couple of times and finally invokes a debugger (which eats my whole memory and swap and crashes the X server :). I tried both a precompiled version and the one I built myself (latest release). I am using a nearly "stock" .winerc (copied from the wine.ini, just changed paths to reflect my system) My system is RedHat Linux 6.1, but I remember seeing the same thing some time ago on RH6.0. Am I doing something stupid, or is it a known problem ? marcin