From: Bart Martens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Stegozor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Serious problem with dosemu package on Ubuntu Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 08:53:12 +0200
On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 00:33 +0200, Stegozor wrote: > Hi, Hi Stegozor, > > I experienced a serious problem after having installed dosemu > 1.2.2-3build1 That is not the latest package in Ubuntu. https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/dosemu > (dapper) on my Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Dapper Drake with all its > updates installed. I use Debian, not Ubuntu, but I'll try to help you. http://www.debian.org/ http://packages.debian.org/dosemu http://packages.debian.org/dosemu-freedos > Dosemu just refused to launch, returning the error > message that I put at the bottom of this mail. Maybe it's the same problem as this: https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/dosemu-freedos/+bug/52857 > After having tried > several workarounds, finally I downloaded a rpm package from > http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/dosemu/dosemu-1.2.2-1.i386.rpm%3Fdownload > and transformed into a deb using alien. Now, it works quite fine, Good for you. > but if > I accept the auto-update of Ubuntu for dosemu, it fails again. I guess that's normal. > > According to the dosemu developper, it's because debian failed to adopt > the latest package and it uses dead code. For further information, > please see: http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0503.3/1942.html Bart Oldeman wrote that on Mar 31 2005. Eleven months later Bart Oldeman gave me reasons to stick to the latest stable upstream release: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=352100 > > Feel free to send a message if I wasn't clear enough, It was clear. > and please, > please, fix that problem. Maybe your problem disappears when you try the suggestions on this bug report: https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/dosemu-freedos/+bug/52857 > > Best regards. > > PS: Additional information follows : > > my configuration: AMD Athlon XP 2000+ (running at 1,2 Ghz, voluntary > Bios setting), 384 Mb of RAM, 20 Gb hard disk (/ 15 Gb, /home 2Gb, swap > 1Gb, another 1 Gb not yet formatted), the whole thing running under the > latest Ubuntu release (6.06 Dapper Drake with all its updates installed). > > (...):~$ uname -a > Linux elrascle-desktop 2.6.15-26-386 #1 PREEMPT Thu Aug 3 02:52:00 UTC > 2006 i686 GNU/Linux > > A workaround tried and that didn't work : > > (...):~$ sudo -s > root@(...):~# whoami > root > root@(...):~# echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space > root@(...):~# cat /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space > 0 > > > Interesting links about this bug: > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JamesStansell#dosemu I would not give that advice. > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=327153 That bug seems unrelated, but I'm not sure. Well, I hope that this e-mail was helpful. Regards, Bart Martens > > > > The error message of dosemu : > > (C) Copyright 1995-2002 Pasquale J. Villani and The FreeDOS Project. > All Rights Reserved. This is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO > WARRANTY; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the > GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; > either version 2, or (at your option) any later version. > C: HD1 Pri:1 CHS= 0-1-1 start = 0MB,size = 392 > DOS=UMB,HIGH[Y,N]?Y > LASTDRIVE=H[Y,N]?Y > FILES=20[Y,N]?Y > SHELL=C:\COMMAND.COM /E:1024 /P[Y,N]?Y > Kernel: allocated 41 Diskbuffers = 21812 Bytes in HMA > DEVICEHIGH=C:\DOSEMU\EMS.SYS[Y,N]?ERROR: cpu exception in dosemu code > outside of VM86()! > trapno: 0x0e errorcode: 0x00000004 cr2: 0x468a5b2d > eip: 0x468a5b2d esp: 0xbfa3ffb5 eflags: 0x00210282 > cs: 0x0073 ds: 0x007b es: 0x007b ss: 0x007b > Page fault: read instruction to linear address: 0x468a5b2d > CPU was in user mode > Exception was caused by non-available page > ERROR: Fault handler re-entered! signal=11 _trapno=0xE > ERROR: cpu exception in dosemu code outside of VM86()! > trapno: 0x0e errorcode: 0x00000004 cr2: 0x468a5b23 > eip: 0x0805f160 esp: 0x083dd860 eflags: 0x00210202 > cs: 0x0073 ds: 0x007b es: 0x007b ss: 0x007b > Page fault: read instruction to linear address: 0x468a5b23 > CPU was in user mode > Exception was caused by non-available page > -- newer version in debian https://launchpad.net/bugs/56778 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
