[Bug 18927] Need For Speed: Undercover fails to install (msiexec crash)

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18927

Alex Bradbury <asb at asbradbury.org> changed:

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--- Comment #5 from Alex Bradbury <asb at asbradbury.org> 2011-06-16 14:34:08 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #4)
> I've checked /proc/pid/maps at the time of the crash and it seems the address
> space is too fragmented to find such a large free area.
> This is due to randomized address space feature where some system lib mappings
> lead to fragmentation of the the virtual address space.
> 
> You can temporarily turn this feature off: 
> 
> --- snip ---
> $ sudo bash -c "echo 0 >/proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space"
> --- snip ---
> 
> and the game should now start (did in my case).

`setarch $(uname -m) -R bash` and then launching wine from that terminal (or
just setarching wine directly) should do the same thing without needing root
privileges or applying the setting system-wide.

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