kernel 2.6.8 and wine

[Grant Limberg]

On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 09:24:53 -0500, Joel Uckelman <uckelman at nomic.net> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a question about the interaction between the current kernel
> (2.6.8-1.521) and the current version of Wine (20040813). I can run programs
> in Wine as root, but when I try to run the same programs as a normal user,
> Wine fails with some error messages like this:
> 
> fixme:exec:ShellExecuteExW32 flags ignored: 0x00000500
> fixme:exec:SHELL_ExecuteW Strange error set by CreateProcess: 203
> fixme:exec:SHELL_ExecuteW Strange error set by CreateProcess: 203
> Application could not be started, or no application associated with the specifi
> ed file.
> ShellExecuteEx failed: Environment variable not found
> 
> (This particular bunch of errors came from attempting to run a batch file
> using 'wine start.exe'.)
> 
> As per the release notes for the kernel, I tried using a newer version of
> setarch (1.4-3) with the -L flag, but that gave the same results as using
> an older version of setarch or none at all---the program ran as root, but
> failed otherwise.
> 
> I've already asked one of the Wine lists about this, without any luck.
> Does anyone here have any idea what I can do to get Wine to work for normal
> users, and why 'setarch -L' doesn't do that?

try running this:

 echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/legacy_va_layout



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