Wine totally broken on Fedora Core because of security patch in kernel

Mike Hearn mike at theoretic.com
Thu Jan 29 11:32:34 CST 2004


On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 18:05:44 +0100, Ivan Leo Murray-Smith wrote:
> FC has some security patch in the kernel, so wine fails with this error:
> 
> err:virtual:map_image Standard load address for a Win32 program (0x00400000)
> not available - security-patched kernel ?
> wine: could not load L"C:\\Program Files\\Common
> Files\\InstallShield\\Engine\\6\\Intel 32\\IKernel.exe" as Win32 binary
> 
> as reported by Marek Lipovcan and some users on the newsgroup, I don't have fc
> myself, but I guess something should be done about this.

I'm working on this. I hope to have something to show at WineConf. For
now the Fedora RPMs contain a hack to keep things rolling along, I suggest
people who encounter this error use them.




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