I managed to kill the wineserver process while running after only 13 error windows: WINEDEBUG=+relay,+seh,+tid winecfg &> ~/tmp/output.txt This is excerpted from the output: ... 000b:Ret KERNEL32.GetProcAddress() retval=7b82166c ret=6831b690 000b:Call KERNEL32.DelayLoadFailureHook(683228b8 "shell32.dll",683228fa "SHGetFolderPathW") ret=6831b6ea 000b:err:module:DelayLoadFailureHook failed to delay load shell32.dll.SHGetFolderPathW 000b:trace:seh:raise_exception code=80000100 flags=1 addr=0x7b836572 ip=7b836572 tid=000b 000b:trace:seh:raise_exception info[0]=683228b8 000b:trace:seh:raise_exception info[1]=683228fa wine: Call from 0x7b836572 to unimplemented function shell32.dll.SHGetFolderPathW, aborting 000b:trace:seh:call_vectored_handlers calling handler at 0x76abcaa0 code=80000100 flags=1 000b:trace:seh:call_vectored_handlers handler at 0x76abcaa0 returned 0 000b:trace:seh:call_stack_handlers calling handler at 0x7bc72120 code=80000100 flags=1 000b:Call KERNEL32.UnhandledExceptionFilter(0033f348) ret=7bc7216d wine: Unimplemented function shell32.dll.SHGetFolderPathW called at address 0x7b836572 (thread 000b), starting debugger... 000b:trace:seh:start_debugger Starting debugger "winedbg --auto 10 52" err:xrender:get_xrender_format_from_color_shifts No XRender format found! ... There considerable more than this, 220.6 kB.