loader: print a better message about reserving memory
Austin English
austinenglish at gmail.com
Sun Apr 13 15:24:51 CDT 2008
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 2:43 PM, Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com> wrote:
> Vitaliy wrote:
> >Austin English wrote:
> >> With ubuntu updating to the 2.6.24 kernel, a lot more people are
> >> running into errors about reserving memory. This patch adds a
> >> suggestion to check /etc/sysctl.conf.
> >>
> >> You may need to edit /etc/sysctl.conf to give Wine access to this memory.\n",
> >
> >Can you be more specific what did Ubuntu do to break Wine?
>
> It would have been helpful if Austin had linked to the bug report
> from his patch. I went and filed a (very well documented :-) bug report
>
> http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12548
> that turned out to be a dup of the one Austin had been discussing
> the bug in.
>
> Austin's patch is helpful, but I think we can do better. For instance,
> we could ship a helper app that pops up a gui
> and asks whether the user wants us to work around the problem
> (by doing gksudo sysctl -w vm.mmap_min_addr=0, say)
> and run it in the preloader if we can't map the lowest page.
>
>
>
I had started to notice it whenever ubuntu upgraded the hardy kernel
to 2.6.24. A helper app would be good, but in the meantime, I think a
link to a wiki page with links to the bug #'s, etc would be helpful. I
wrote the patch before your (very detailed :-D) report, however.
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