[Wine] "Failed to open the service control manager" -- is it OK?

[goldstein.mark at gmail.com]

I'm trying to use WINE on openSuSE 10.2. I used it before on SuSE 10.0,
do no remember what version was it, but I used WineTools to configure
it (I actually need only IE).
Now I'm trying version wine-0.9.27 SuSE RPM, from winehq site. I
understood that winetools should not be used anymore (I actually tried
it with wine-0.9.24 from openSuSE 10.2 without too much success).

Now, the first strange thing I see is that when I'm running
wineprefixcreate, I'm getting this "Failed to open the service control
manager" message when the script tries to issue "wine rundll32.exe
setupapi.dll,InstallHinfSection DefaultInstall 128 wine.inf". But when
after that I'm issuing the same command manually, it works OK.

Is it a symptom of something wrong, or can I just ignore it and
continue experimenting (I still fail to run IE)?

Thanks,
Mark