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From: Bart Martens <email address hidden>
To: Stegozor <email address hidden>
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 Lic...

Bart wrote:

> Maybe your problem disappears when you try the suggestions on this
> bug report:
>https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/dosemu-freedos/+bug/52857

Indeed, I removed dosemu and freedos packages using Synaptic, downloaded the new package and installed it. Dosemu works like a charm now.
(I especially referred to the message of Adrian R Goalby (2006-08-03 19:39:13 UTC) that you can find on the page indicated by the link). Thank you Bart.

Not "rejected" but "processed".