Comment 15 for bug 205895

I can confirm this bug with a fully updated Hardy as of this moment. It applies to both the Hardy version of Wine and to version 1.0-rc1. Ies4linux is version 2.99.0.1. The bug also applies to all versions of Internet explorer that ies4linux offers.

Symptoms:
1) When ie6 is started, CPU usage goes to about 76% for both the wineserver and IEXPLORE.EXE processes (two cores). It does not matter what IE is doing; going to "about:blank" leaves the CPU usage the same.

2) When I exit IE, the call to wine does not terminate. IEXPLORE.EXE stops using CPU, but instead wineserver goes to 100% CPU usage. The processes wineserver, explorer.exe and IEXPLORE.EXE remain. At this point it is not possible to start a new IE.

3) After doing wineserver -k (with the proper WINEPREFIX), the wineserver terminates, but leaves explorer.exe and IEXPLORE.EXE running, the latter defunct. The call to wine still has not returned. At this point a new IE can be started.

4) It is possible to kill off the two remaining processes, after which everything is fine and the call to wine returns.