On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 2:43 PM, Dan Kegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Vitaliy wrote: > >Austin English wrote: > >> With ubuntu updating to the 2.6.24 kernel, a lot more people are > >> running into errors about reserving memory. This patch adds a > >> suggestion to check /etc/sysctl.conf. > >> > >> You may need to edit /etc/sysctl.conf to give Wine access to this > memory.\n", > > > >Can you be more specific what did Ubuntu do to break Wine? > > It would have been helpful if Austin had linked to the bug report > from his patch. I went and filed a (very well documented :-) bug report > > http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12548 > that turned out to be a dup of the one Austin had been discussing > the bug in. > > Austin's patch is helpful, but I think we can do better. For instance, > we could ship a helper app that pops up a gui > and asks whether the user wants us to work around the problem > (by doing gksudo sysctl -w vm.mmap_min_addr=0, say) > and run it in the preloader if we can't map the lowest page. > > >
I had started to notice it whenever ubuntu upgraded the hardy kernel to 2.6.24. A helper app would be good, but in the meantime, I think a link to a wiki page with links to the bug #'s, etc would be helpful. I wrote the patch before your (very detailed :-D) report, however.
