It's present in intrepid. Someone with rights should triage it.
** Description changed: Default value of mmap_min_addr is set to 64kb, which breaks many different userland applications, including dosemu, wine and hardware virtualisation. Should be set to zero, as recommended by LKML when feature was introduced. As originally reported by pivo: """ When I start dosemu, I get the following, only: $ dosemu LOWRAM mmap: Invalid argument Segmentation fault (core dumped) I use latest hardy on 3 different machines (both ix32 and amd64), tried the console as well as X11, with the same result. The last time I'm certain it worked was 2008-03-26. Some dependency must have borked dosemu. Google didn't help. """ + + + ***WORKAROUND*** + To fix it temporarily run from console (needed everytime you reboot): + $ sudo sysctl vm.mmap_min_addr=0 + + To fix it permanently: + Add this line to /etc/sysctl.conf + + vm.mmap_min_addr=0 + ***END WORKAROUND*** ** Description changed: Default value of mmap_min_addr is set to 64kb, which breaks many different userland applications, including dosemu, wine and hardware virtualisation. Should be set to zero, as recommended by LKML when feature was introduced. As originally reported by pivo: """ When I start dosemu, I get the following, only: $ dosemu LOWRAM mmap: Invalid argument Segmentation fault (core dumped) I use latest hardy on 3 different machines (both ix32 and amd64), tried the console as well as X11, with the same result. The last time I'm certain it worked was 2008-03-26. Some dependency must have borked dosemu. Google didn't help. """ - ***WORKAROUND*** - To fix it temporarily run from console (needed everytime you reboot): - $ sudo sysctl vm.mmap_min_addr=0 - - To fix it permanently: - Add this line to /etc/sysctl.conf - - vm.mmap_min_addr=0 - ***END WORKAROUND*** + ***WORKAROUND************** + * To fix it temporarily run from console (needed everytime you reboot): + * $ sudo sysctl vm.mmap_min_addr=0 + * + * To fix it permanently: + * Add this line to /etc/sysctl.conf + * + * vm.mmap_min_addr=0 + ***END WORKAROUND********* -- default mmap_min_addr breaks userland https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/216398 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
