dosemu crashes on startup

this is the boot.log that it generates

this is on edgy w/ a 2.6.17-10-generic kernel and just trying to boot a plain dosemu-freedos (i.e. just installed), it crashes the same if run as root or normal user (log below is normal user)

I chmod u+s /usr/bin/dosemu.bin

CONF: config variable parser_version_3 set
CONF: config variable c_system set
CONF: Parsing built-in dosemu.conf file.
CONF: config variable version_3_style_used set
CONF: Parsing built-in global.conf file.
CONF: config variable version_3_style_used unset
CONF: config variable version_3_style_used set
CONF: opened include file /etc/dosemu/dosemu.conf
CONF: closed include file /etc/dosemu/dosemu.conf
debug flags: -a+cw
CONF: Enabling use of pentium timer
CONF: dosbanner on
CONF: timer freq=18, update=54925
CONF: CPU set to 386
CONF: 8192k bytes XMS memory
CONF: 2048k bytes EMS memory
CONF: EMS-frame = 0xe000
CONF: DPMI-Server on
CONF: dosemu running on _xterm
SER: directory /var/lock namestub LCK.. binary No
MOUSE: no device specified, type 0 using internaldriver: yes, emulate3buttons: no baudrate: 0
CONF: Keyboard-layout keyb-user
CONF: Keyboard-layout us
device: /dev/fd0 type 2 h: 0 s: 0 t: 0 floppy A:
CONF: fastfloppy = 1
CONF: IPX support off
CONF(LPT0) f: (null) c: lpr o: -Plp t: 20 port: 0
CONF: not allowing speaker port access
CONF: Packet Driver disabled.
device: /var/lib/dosemu/freedos type 4 h: -1 s: -1 t: -1 drive C:
CONF: config variable c_system unset
CONF: not enough privilege to define config variable c_user
CONF: mostly running as USER: uid=1000 (cached 1000) gid=1000 (cached 1000)
DBG_FD already set
DOSEMU-1.2.2.0 is coming up on Linux version 2.6.17-10-generic
CONF: reserving 640Kb at 0x00000 for 'd' (Base DOS memory (first 640K))
CONF: reserving 64Kb at 0xF0000 for 'r' (Dosemu reserved area)
CPU: Stack bottom 0xbfa5b000, top 0xbfa71000, esp=0xbfa6d850
major = 136 minor = 1
CONF: reserving 128Kb at 0xA0000 for 'v' (Video memory)
SERIAL $Header: /cvsroot/dosemu/dosemu/src/base/serial/ser_init.c,v 1.1.2.5 2004/02/10 00:36:26 bartoldeman Exp $
CONF: reserving 64Kb at 0xE0000 for 'E' (EMS page frame)
TIME: using 9154 usec for updating ALRM timer
ERROR: cpu exception in dosemu code outside of VM86()!
trapno: 0x0e errorcode: 0x00000004 cr2: 0x468a5b2d
eip: 0x468a5b2d esp: 0xbfa1ffb5 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
  VFLAGS(b): 010000001010000010
EAX: e8c931f0 EBX: 00003440 ECX: f71b26cd EDX: 00000003 VFLAGS(h): 00210282
ESI: 00000024 EDI: 000069e8 EBP: 00000344
CS: 0073 DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 0000 GS: 0033
FLAGS: SF IF RF IOPL: 0
OOPS : 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: 0x0807d350 esp: 0x0840a2c0 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
  VFLAGS(b): 010000001000000010
EAX: 00000007 EBX: 00000000 ECX: 00000a1f EDX: 00000000 VFLAGS(h): 00210202
ESI: 468a5b2d EDI: 0840a344 EBP: 08128d61
CS: 0073 DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 0000 GS: 0033
FLAGS: IF RF IOPL: 0
OOPS : 77 38 90 8d b4 26 00 00 00 00 -> 0f b6 44 33 f6 43 c7 04 24 0a
System info:
 linux-gate.so.1 => (0xffffe000)
 libXxf86vm.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXxf86vm.so.1 (0xb7fd0000)
 libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXext.so.6 (0xb7fc3000)
 libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 (0xb7efa000)
 libslang.so.2 => /lib/libslang.so.2 (0xb7e41000)
 libm.so.6 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libm.so.6 (0xb7e1b000)
 libdl.so.2 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0xb7e17000)
 libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb7ce3000)
 libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXau.so.6 (0xb7ce0000)
 libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6 (0xb7cdb000)
 /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x80000000)
glibc 2.4
NPTL 2.4
Using built-in specs.
Target: i486-linux-gnu
Configured with: ../src/configure -v --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c++,treelang --prefix=/usr --enable-shared --with-system-zlib --libexecdir=/usr/lib --without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix --enable-nls --program-suffix=-4.1 --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-mpfr --enable-checking=release i486-linux-gnu
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.1.2 20060928 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.1-13ubuntu5)
Linux dent 2.6.17-10-generic #2 SMP Tue Oct 10 19:45:28 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux
00000000-00010000 rwxs 00010000 00:08 106135589 /SYSV00000000 (deleted)
00010000-000a0000 rwxp 00010000 00:00 0
000a0000-000c1000 rwxs 00020000 00:08 106135589 /SYSV00000000 (deleted)
000c1000-00100000 rwxp 000c1000 00:00 0
00100000-00110000 rwxs 00000000 00:08 106135589 /SYSV00000000 (deleted)
08048000-08177000 r-xp 00000000 03:03 1625149 /usr/bin/dosemu.bin
08177000-081a3000 rwxp 0012f000 03:03 1625149 /usr/bin/dosemu.bin
081a3000-084e3000 rwxp 081a3000 00:00 0 [heap]
b5d54000-b7b5e000 rwxs 00000000 00:08 106135589 /SYSV00000000 (deleted)
b7b5e000-b7b67000 r-xp 00000000 03:03 3605524 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libnss_files-2.4.so
b7b67000-b7b69000 rwxp 00008000 03:03 3605524 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libnss_files-2.4.so
b7b69000-b7b71000 r-xp 00000000 03:03 3605526 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libnss_nis-2.4.so
b7b71000-b7b73000 rwxp 00007000 03:03 3605526 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libnss_nis-2.4.so
b7b73000-b7b85000 r-xp 00000000 03:03 3605521 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libnsl-2.4.so
b7b85000-b7b87000 rwxp 00011000 03:03 3605521 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libnsl-2.4.so
b7b87000-b7b89000 rwxp b7b87000 00:00 0
b7b89000-b7b90000 r-xp 00000000 03:03 3605522 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libnss_compat-2.4.so
b7b90000-b7b92000 rwxp 00006000 03:03 3605522 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libnss_compat-2.4.so
b7ba9000-b7bdc000 r-xp 00000000 03:03 819383 /usr/lib/locale/en_US/LC_CTYPE
b7bdc000-b7cb3000 r-xp 00000000 03:03 819232 /usr/lib/locale/en_US/LC_COLLATE
b7cb3000-b7cb5000 rwxp b7cb3000 00:00 0
b7cb5000-b7cb9000 r-xp 00000000 03:03 1622706 /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6.0.0
b7cb9000-b7cba000 rwxp 00003000 03:03 1622706 /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6.0.0
b7cba000-b7cbc000 r-xp 00000000 03:03 1622686 /usr/lib/libXau.so.6.0.0
b7cbc000-b7cbd000 rwxp 00001000 03:03 1622686 /usr/lib/libXau.so.6.0.0
b7cbd000-b7dea000 r-xp 00000000 03:03 3605039 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc-2.4.so
b7dea000-b7dec000 r-xp 0012c000 03:03 3605039 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc-2.4.so
b7dec000-b7dee000 rwxp 0012e000 03:03 3605039 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc-2.4.so
b7dee000-b7df1000 rwxp b7dee000 00:00 0
b7df1000-b7df3000 r-xp 00000000 03:03 3605518 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libdl-2.4.so
b7df3000-b7df5000 rwxp 00001000 03:03 3605518 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libdl-2.4.so
b7df5000-b7e19000 r-xp 00000000 03:03 3605519 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libm-2.4.so
b7e19000-b7e1b000 rwxp 00023000 03:03 3605519 /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libm-2.4.so
b7e1b000-b7ea4000 r-xp 00000000 03:03 3604529 /lib/libslang.so.2.0.6
b7ea4000-b7eb3000 rwxp 00088000 03:03 3604529 /lib/libslang.so.2.0.6
b7eb3000-b7ed4000 rwxp b7eb3000 00:00 0
b7ed4000-b7f9a000 r-xp 00000000 03:03 1624246 /usr/lib/libX11.so.6.2.0
b7f9a000-b7f9d000 rwxp 000c5000 03:03 1624246 /usr/lib/libX11.so.6.2.0
b7f9d000-b7fa9000 r-xp 00000000 03:03 1624461 /usr/lib/libXext.so.6.4.0
b7fa9000-b7faa000 rwxp 0000c000 03:03 1624461 /usr/lib/libXext.so.6.4.0
b7faa000-b7fae000 r-xp 00000000 03:03 1624505 /usr/lib/libXxf86vm.so.1.0.0
b7fae000-b7faf000 rwxp 00003000 03:03 1624505 /usr/lib/libXxf86vm.so.1.0.0
b7fb5000-b7fb6000 r-xp 00000000 03:03 819230 /usr/lib/locale/en_US/LC_NUMERIC
b7fb6000-b7fb7000 r-xp 00000000 03:03 819231 /usr/lib/locale/en_US/LC_TIME
b7fb7000-b7fb8000 r-xp 00000000 03:03 819233 /usr/lib/locale/en_US/LC_MONETARY
b7fb8000-b7fb9000 r-xp 00000000 03:03 917584 /usr/lib/locale/en_US/LC_MESSAGES/SYS_LC_MESSAGES
b7fb9000-b7fba000 r-xp 00000000 03:03 819234 /usr/lib/locale/en_US/LC_PAPER
b7fba000-b7fbb000 r-xp 00000000 03:03 819236 /usr/lib/locale/en_US/LC_NAME
b7fbb000-b7fbc000 r-xp 00000000 03:03 819237 /usr/lib/locale/en_US/LC_ADDRESS
b7fbc000-b7fbd000 r-xp 00000000 03:03 819238 /usr/lib/locale/en_US/LC_TELEPHONE
b7fbd000-b7fbe000 r-xp 00000000 03:03 819248 /usr/lib/locale/en_US/LC_MEASUREMENT
b7fbe000-b7fc5000 r-xs 00000000 03:03 1623523 /usr/lib/gconv/gconv-modules.cache
b7fc5000-b7fc6000 r-xp 00000000 03:03 819333 /usr/lib/locale/en_US/LC_IDENTIFICATION
b7fc6000-b7fc8000 rwxp b7fc6000 00:00 0
b7fc8000-b7fe1000 r-xp 00000000 03:03 3604660 /lib/ld-2.4.so
b7fe1000-b7fe3000 rwxp 00018000 03:03 3604660 /lib/ld-2.4.so
bf9e0000-bfa71000 rwxp bf9e0000 00:00 0 [stack]
ffffe000-fffff000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0 [vdso]
Debug info:
gdb /usr/bin/dosemu.bin
attach 949
info registers
backtrace full
detach
quit
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(gdb) Attaching to program: /usr/bin/dosemu.bin, process 949
ptrace: Operation not permitted.
(gdb) The program has no registers now.
(gdb) No stack.
(gdb) (gdb)
leavedos(4|0x4) called - shutting down
leavedos() called from within a signal context!