Hi!
I've been happily using Win4Lin2.0. With the upgrade to 3.0 I decided to
give it a try. I downloaded, unpacked and ran the installer, gave it my 3.0
license upgrade code. The graphical installer finished without any error
messages. But I can't run win4lin!
First: I'm running Mandrake8.0, but my kernel is the stock 2.4.4 manually
patched with win4lin (I never trust distro-modified kernels).
'grep mki_install_hook /proc/ksyms' gives "c0111520 mki_install_hook_2_4 ",
so I assume the kernel is right. Installer detected it as "2.4.4-win4lin" and
let me proceed.
In syslog I found a mesage "Failed to load Mmerge.o" so I looked at
/var/win4lin/log/insmod.log and found:
MERGE_TUNE: _M_max_num_sessions=
SERIAL_TUNE: mcom1_irq=4 mcom2_irq=3
Mmerge.o: too few values for _M_max_num_sessions (min 1)
Warning: kernel-module version mismatch
Mmerge.o was compiled for kernel version 2.4.3-20mdk-win4lin
while this kernel is version 2.4.4-win4lin
So, it tries to load mdk module even though the kernel is not a mdk one. So I
tried to move all the file in /opt/win4lin/drivers/2.4.mdk to a backup dir
and replace them by copies from /opt/win4lin/drivers/2.4
After reboot - same thing, only now the message in insmod.log is
MERGE_TUNE: _M_max_num_sessions=
SERIAL_TUNE: mcom1_irq=4 mcom2_irq=3
Mmerge.o: too few values for _M_max_num_sessions (min 1)
Warning: kernel-module version mismatch
Mmerge.o was compiled for kernel version 2.4.1-win4lin
while this kernel is version 2.4.4-win4lin
So, maybe it tries the mdk module as it is 2.4.3 as opposed to 2.4.1, so
closer to my 2.4.4. Anyway, I have versioning disabled in kernel, so I don't
think this warning is the real problem. The problem must be "MERGE_TUNE:
_M_max_num_sessions="
I looked at the scripts and realized that to get max number of sessions
/opt/win4lin/bin/max_sessions is called. So I tried calling it from command
line (everything as root of course). result: segmentation fault, core dumped.
This is consistent with what happens at boot - I find core after the failed
attempt to load Mmerge.o
So, what now?? Why can't I load Win4Lin modules. Kernel 2.4.4 should be
supported, the patch is there, right. Other that win4lin patch and aic7xxx
patch (required to compile the thing) this is stock kernel from kernel.org,
no mdk peculiarities there. I tried uninstalling (rpm -e) and reinstalling
the downloaded rpm. Invoking rpm from command line gives a whole bunch of
error messages. Some pretty mundane "file exists" but also:
/opt/win4lin/Install/inst_mrg.sh: line 590: 2437 Segmentation fault
(core dumped) $STATICMERGE/publicbin/dosexec +v >>$LOG_FILE
/opt/win4lin/Install/inst_mrg.sh: line 11: 2503 Segmentation fault
(core dumped) winadmin printer delete $i >>$NULL 2>&1
...
and two more screens of similar stuff from inst_mrg.sh and mrg_setup.sh
plus at the end
expr: syntax error
/opt/win4lin/drivers/tools/loadem: [: -lt: unary operator expected
/opt/win4lin/drivers/tools/loadem: [: -gt: unary operator expected
/opt/win4lin/adminbin/rlock_tune: [: -le: unary operator expected
/opt/win4lin/adminbin/rlock_tune: [: -le: unary operator expected
/opt/win4lin/adminbin/rlock_tune: [: -le: unary operator expected
/opt/win4lin/adminbin/rlock_tune: [: -le: unary operator expected
Failed to load Mmerge.o
See /var/win4lin/log/insmod.log for load failure messages.
Starting Merge virtual network (vnetd)
And still nothing works.
Anyone???? BTW. I'd like to avoid having to wipe everything out and start
from the scratch - lots of personalization went into my win configuration,
lots of soft installed and configured, etc.
TIA
Pawel
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