Thanks for the suggestions! Tried the 'wine steam.exe'. No dice. Removed the ClientRegistry.blob file. Ran steam again. It updated and got the 26% crash and told me a copy was already running. Started Steam again. It completed the update and tried to start. It came back with the same error as before: "aaron@destro:~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Steam> nice -n 19 wine Steam.exe fixme:process:SetProcessShutdownParameters (00000100, 00000000): partial stub. CellID: Fetching server list from CSDS. . . fixme:urlmon:CoInternetSetFeatureEnabled 5, 0x00000002, 1, stub fixme:urlmon:CoInternetSetFeatureEnabled 10, 0x00000002, 1, stub CellID: CSDS returned 161 servers. CellID: Connecting to 68.142.81.3:27031. . . CellID: Connect to 68.142.81.3:27031 took 55 MS CellID: Nothing beat our old best time of 17 MS err:ntdll:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection section 0xc2705c "?" wait timed out in thread 0023, blocked by0024, retrying (60 sec) Deleting active MRSW lock (0x1151cc), expect failure aaron@destro:~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Steam>" I used the 'nice' command based on some info on the Steam appdb page and got, as you can see, the same error. I had gotten the same error prior to that w/o the 'nice' command. What else can I try? Thanks a bunch Aaron
