wine users - May 2010 - Wine hangs when creating initial configuration

Hi, I'm using Debian Squeeze and never had a problem with Wine (aside from
application related stuff). I just updated from 1.1.37 to 1.1.44 and when
running wincfg a dialog appears showing "The Wine configuration in ~/.wine
is being updated, please
wait..." and hangs. When running it from the shell I get the following:

> 
> wine: created the configuration directory '~/.wine'
> Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
> Cannot connect to server socket
> jack server is not running or cannot be started
> err:process:__wine_kernel_init boot event wait timed out
> 

After some time, winecfg opens but I can't get some applications to work.
Any ideas?

Hello,
I am experiencing the same hang also on Debian Squeeze.

This behaviour is starting with this commit:

    2c067ed31efa00f4c4baa48e5c952418b9337b3a is the first bad commit
    commit 2c067ed31efa00f4c4baa48e5c952418b9337b3a
    Author: Maarten Lankhorst <m.b.lankhorst at gmail.com>
    Date:   Sun Feb 21 14:48:39 2010 +0100
    
        mmdevapi: Add dependency on openal.
    
    :040000 040000 f80ff8108f3e06560f679f8cd98280b82bddd451
70b4c5173f8315f1449f9f2de52ffbf54f840237 M      dlls


It does not hang when creating a ~/.alsoftrc and putting following lines in it:

    #drivers = pulse,alsa,oss,solaris,dsound,winmm,port,wave
    drivers = pulse,alsa,oss,solaris,dsound,winmm,wave

The first line is the default copied from /etc/openal/alsoft.conf.
In the second line only "port" is removed to get it working.

Kind regards
Bernhard

(anwer to http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t=8457 )