wineboot hangs and does not complete

Question

I'm having a strange issue with Wine on macOS 10.13.4. I have Homebrew installed and have installed Wine with brew install wine winetricks.

$ wine --version
wine-3.0

When I run wineboot --init > log 2>&1 I get a dialog box that says The Wine configuration in /Users/richard/.wine is being updated, please wait. The log file looks like this:

wine: created the configuration directory '/Users/richard/.wine'
0012:err:ole:marshal_object couldn't get IPSFactory buffer for interface {00000131-0000-0000-c000-000000000046}
0012:err:ole:marshal_object couldn't get IPSFactory buffer for interface {6d5140c1-7436-11ce-8034-00aa006009fa}
0012:err:ole:StdMarshalImpl_MarshalInterface Failed to create ifstub, hres=0x80004002
0012:err:ole:CoMarshalInterface Failed to marshal the interface {6d5140c1-7436-11ce-8034-00aa006009fa}, 80004002
0012:err:ole:get_local_server_stream Failed: 80004002
0014:err:ole:marshal_object couldn't get IPSFactory buffer for interface {00000131-0000-0000-c000-000000000046}
0014:err:ole:marshal_object couldn't get IPSFactory buffer for interface {6d5140c1-7436-11ce-8034-00aa006009fa}
0014:err:ole:StdMarshalImpl_MarshalInterface Failed to create ifstub, hres=0x80004002
0014:err:ole:CoMarshalInterface Failed to marshal the interface {6d5140c1-7436-11ce-8034-00aa006009fa}, 80004002
0014:err:ole:get_local_server_stream Failed: 80004002
0017:fixme:ntdll:NtLockFile I/O completion on lock not implemented yet
0017:err:mscoree:LoadLibraryShim error reading registry key for installroot
0017:err:mscoree:LoadLibraryShim error reading registry key for installroot
0017:err:mscoree:LoadLibraryShim error reading registry key for installroot
0017:err:mscoree:LoadLibraryShim error reading registry key for installroot
0017:fixme:msi:internal_ui_handler internal UI not implemented for message 0x0b000000 (UI level = 1)
0017:fixme:msi:internal_ui_handler internal UI not implemented for message 0x0b000000 (UI level = 1)
001b:fixme:ntdll:NtLockFile I/O completion on lock not implemented yet
001b:fixme:msi:internal_ui_handler internal UI not implemented for message 0x0b000000 (UI level = 1)
001b:fixme:msi:internal_ui_handler internal UI not implemented for message 0x0b000000 (UI level = 1)
0010:err:winediag:SECUR32_initNTLMSP ntlm_auth was not found or is outdated. Make sure that ntlm_auth >= 3.0.25 is in your path. Usually, you can find it in the winbind package of your distribution.
0010:fixme:dwmapi:DwmIsCompositionEnabled 0x6dbd1518
0010:fixme:winsock:set_dont_fragment IP_DONTFRAGMENT for IPv4 not supported in this platform
001d:fixme:iphlpapi:NotifyIpInterfaceChange (family 0, callback 0x69ebd3de, context 0x9e6640, init_notify 0, handle 0x12dfa40): stub
0009:err:process:__wine_kernel_init boot event wait timed out
004a:fixme:mountmgr:DriverEntry failed to create device error c0000035
004a:err:winedevice:async_create_driver failed to create driver L"MountMgr": c0000035
005a:err:hid_report:process_hid_report Device reports coming in too fast, last report not read yet!
005a:err:hid_report:process_hid_report Device reports coming in too fast, last report not read yet!
    [THE ABOVE LINE IS REPEATED 1000s OF TIMES]

When I killed wine64 with a SIGTERM after an hour, the following lines were appended to the log file:

006e:fixme:ntdll:NtLockFile I/O completion on lock not implemented yet
006e:fixme:msi:internal_ui_handler internal UI not implemented for message 0x0b000000 (UI level = 1)
006e:fixme:msi:internal_ui_handler internal UI not implemented for message 0x0b000000 (UI level = 1)
006c:err:winediag:SECUR32_initNTLMSP ntlm_auth was not found or is outdated. Make sure that ntlm_auth >= 3.0.25 is in your path. Usually, you can find it in the winbind package of your distribution.
006c:fixme:dwmapi:DwmIsCompositionEnabled 0x6d5d3018
0070:fixme:iphlpapi:NotifyIpInterfaceChange (family 0, callback 0x6a0cb608, context 0x958950, init_notify 0, handle 0x119fce8): stub
006c:fixme:winsock:set_dont_fragment IP_DONTFRAGMENT for IPv4 not supported in this platform
wine: configuration in '/Users/richard/.wine' has been updated.

• I did rm -rf ~/.wine before all this
• WINEPREFIX is unset
• Homebrew and wine are at the latest available version
• wineboot, wineboot --init and wineboot --update all have the same problem

How can I get wineboot to complete without hanging?

Edit: I'm currently setting up a macOS 10.13.4 virtual machine to test if the same thing happens in there.

Edit 2: I've tested in a fresh macOS 10.13.4 virtual machine and I'm having the same problem. I've tried brew install wine (for Wine 3.0 stable) and brew install wine --HEAD (for the latest Wine 3.7), both have the same problem with wineboot hanging.

Edit 3: I think the log line 0009:err:process:__wine_kernel_init boot event wait timed out might be the problem, no idea how to get around it though.

Answer 1

Just found out that this is a known bug with the version from Homebrew, see https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/26384. Workaround for now is to use the official version from https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/macosx/download.html.

Answer 2

The wineboot command hangs, because it most likely gives you some error popup. To see the popup message error, make sure you've proper DISPLAY variable configured which points to your current display.

The common issue is popup about missing Gecko. The workaround to run wineboot non-interactively, is to ignore the Gecko package by the following command:

WINEDLLOVERRIDES="mscoree,mshtml=" wineboot -i

Another issue could be related to .NET/rundll32, see: bug #47144.