Building chromium in visual c++ 2005 on current wine on an 8 core monster machine, I got some random errors: Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-open.c: 256: dl_open_worker: Assertion `_dl_debug_initialize (0, args->nsid)->r_state == RT_CONSISTENT' failed! Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-open.c: 256: dl_open_worker: Assertion `_dl_debug_initialize (0, args->nsid)->r_state == RT_CONSISTENT' failed! wine: Invalid handle wine client error:0: init_thread failed with status c000011f wine: Invalid handle wine: Module not found Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-open.c: 256: dl_open_worker: Assertion `_dl_debug_initialize (0, args->nsid)->r_state == RT_CONSISTENT' failed! c000011f is STATUS_TOO_MANY_OPENED_FILES There were corresponding errors in the devenv log saying that perfectly good files didn't exist, so I imagine it was just an open failure. The wineserver is process 1247, and sure enough, ls /proc/1247 shows file descriptors as high as 973 in use. The default ulimit -n is 1024, so it probably briefly exceeded that. I guess I'll bump up ulimit -n for the wine session and keep an eye out for leaks... (For those who haven't done this, one way is sudo bash ulimit -n 5000 su dank That gets you a normal shell with the raised file descriptor limit.) I didn't see any of this when running on a slower 4 core machine with source from two days ago, so I'll bet it's just the extra load. No idea what those ld.so errors are, though. - Dan