From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from <gentoo-user+bounces-99476-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org>) id 1MhfVQ-0005Fh-7V for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 30 Aug 2009 08:11:20 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0C2C6E051E; Sun, 30 Aug 2009 13:20:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF85AE051E for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Sun, 30 Aug 2009 13:20:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E37B6430B for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Sun, 30 Aug 2009 13:20:25 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.008 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.008 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.409, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id HuNnF2BiHj5g for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Sun, 30 Aug 2009 13:20:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A39586430D for <gentoo-user@gentoo.org>; Sun, 30 Aug 2009 13:20:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1MhkKD-0007XP-3y for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sun, 30 Aug 2009 15:20:05 +0200 Received: from athedsl-390536.home.otenet.gr ([79.131.77.134]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for <gentoo-user@gentoo.org>; Sun, 30 Aug 2009 15:20:05 +0200 Received: from realnc by athedsl-390536.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for <gentoo-user@gentoo.org>; Sun, 30 Aug 2009 15:20:05 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de> Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: [solved] DOSEMU 1.4.0.0 won't run as ordinary user anymore Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 16:19:44 +0300 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: <h7du9f$38f$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <20090829053812.GA26015@waltdnes.org> <20090830034732.GA27956@waltdnes.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@lists.gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-390536.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.1) Gecko/20090826 Thunderbird/3.0b3 In-Reply-To: <20090830034732.GA27956@waltdnes.org> Sender: news <news@ger.gmane.org> X-Archives-Salt: d757d9d5-c088-4142-b4dd-8068c26ed8ba X-Archives-Hash: 05d9f6f0f1eb7178c9bb0fa5c9dc4087 On 08/30/2009 06:47 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: > After spending some more time in Google, and trying various search > terms, I finally stumbled over the following... > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dosemu/+bug/216398 > > Summary... > > * temporary workaround; as root, issue the command... > sysctl vm.mmap_min_addr > > * the sysctl command has to be re-issued after every reboot. Add > vm.mmap_min_addr=0 > to /etc/sysctl.conf for it to be set properly every reboot > > That should be safe until the next sys-apps/baselayout update. This has to be fixed in dosemu, not baselayout :P