16-bit support missing

[Yagisan]

Attempted to install Microsoft Office 97 under wine-0.9.59 on hardy amd64.

Attempting to run SETUP.EXE results in the following output:
wine SETUP.EXE
preloader: Warning: failed to reserve range 00000000-60000000
preloader: Warning: failed to reserve range 00000000-60000000
err:dosmem:setup_dos_mem Cannot use first megabyte for DOS address space, please report
preloader: Warning: failed to reserve range 00000000-60000000
preloader: Warning: failed to reserve range 00000000-60000000
err:dosmem:setup_dos_mem Cannot use first megabyte for DOS address space, please report
err:dosmem:setup_dos_mem Cannot use first megabyte for DOS address space, please report
preloader: Warning: failed to reserve range 00000000-60000000
err:dosmem:setup_dos_mem Cannot use first megabyte for DOS address space, please report
err:dosmem:load_winedos Could not load winedos.dll, DOS subsystem unavailable
winevdm: unable to exec '--app-name': 16-bit support missing

Running file on SETUP.EXE confirms it is a 16bit Windows application:
file SETUP.EXE
SETUP.EXE: MS-DOS executable, NE for MS Windows 3.x

[jsfranco (jsfranco)]

Hi I have encountered the exact same bug in Ubuntu Hardy LTS 8.04 while trying to install Office 97 from scratch in Wine on a user account; I have encountered the bug on two different PCs. However this might help in finding the problem: on both of these PCs I had some users with the Word 97 installed from a previous version of Wine/Ubuntu (both installed fine under Ubuntu 7.04). Both of these previously installed Word 97s work fine after the upgrade to Ubuntu Hardy LTS 8.04. So the issue might just be specific to the installer.

[Yagisan (yagisan)]

Just to state the obvious - this occurs with *all* 16bit windows applications, eg http://www.wesleysteiner.com/quickgames/solitaire.html has several 16bit windows apps to download - I used this one to test http://www.wesleysteiner.com/quickgames/qcksol20.zip

yagisan@doomguy:~$ file /tmp/QCKSOL.EXE
/tmp/QCKSOL.EXE: MS-DOS executable, NE for MS Windows 3.x
yagisan@doomguy:~$ wine /tmp/QCKSOL.EXE
preloader: Warning: failed to reserve range 00000000-60000000
preloader: Warning: failed to reserve range 00000000-60000000
preloader: Warning: failed to reserve range 00000000-60000000
err:dosmem:setup_dos_mem Cannot use first megabyte for DOS address space, please report
preloader: Warning: failed to reserve range 00000000-60000000
err:dosmem:setup_dos_mem Cannot use first megabyte for DOS address space, please report
err:dosmem:setup_dos_mem Cannot use first megabyte for DOS address space, please report
preloader: Warning: failed to reserve range 00000000-60000000
err:dosmem:setup_dos_mem Cannot use first megabyte for DOS address space, please report
err:dosmem:load_winedos Could not load winedos.dll, DOS subsystem unavailable
winevdm: unable to exec '--app-name': 16-bit support missing

[Jonas Karlsson (minipost)]

I have just updated from Ubuntu 7.10 to 8.04 LTS. I use wine to run and old danish - english dictonary. It worked fine in ubuntu 7.10, but in 8.04 I get the same error message.

[Alexander Krivács Schrøder (alexschrod)]

Definitely confirmed by now. I also have the same problem trying to run a Windows 3.11 program.

[Alexander Krivács Schrøder (alexschrod)]

Actually, this thread here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4713701 specifies a workaround. It worked for me, anyway.

[Yagisan (yagisan)]

Why has this been marked a duplicate of bug 114025 ?

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

It's the same preloader error that the other bug states. These are the same bugs.

[Yagisan (yagisan)]

Well - I didn't report a preloader error - I reported that 16bit support is non-functional. If you believe they are the same bug, make sure to test with a 16bit windows application before marking this as fixed.

[Hew (hew)]

You did report the preloader error as is shown by the output in this bug description. Please read bug #114025 for more info on how it is the same issue. http://wiki.winehq.org/PreloaderPageZeroProblem explains this issue in more detail, and specifically provides the workaround. Please try the workaround and verify that it solves your issue. Any additional information should be provided in the original report, rather than this one. Thanks in advance!