dosemu crash on launch in xubuntu livecd OS

[m seldon]

Binary package hint: dosemu

I installed dosemu on xubuntu livecd OS on a small Toshiba laptop, then launched it using menu Applications / System/DOS emulator. Dosemu immediately crashed.

Root filesystem has 150Mb available.

ps says:
Mem: 447852k total, 430600k used, 17252k free, 17064k buffers
Swap: 111960k total, 56092k used, 55868k free, 117784k cached.

lsb_release -rd says:
Description: Ubuntu 8.10
Release: 8.10

apt-cache policy dosemu says:
dosemu:
  Installed: 1.4.0+svn.1828-2ubuntu1
  Candidate: 1.4.0+svn.1828-2ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 1.4.0+svn.1828-2ubuntu1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/multiverse Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/dosemu.bin
NonfreeKernelModules: ath_hal
Package: dosemu 1.4.0+svn.1828-2ubuntu1
ProcAttrCurrent: unconfined
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/dosemu.bin -X -p
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: dosemu
Stacktrace:
 #0 0xb7e11b56 in memcpy () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 #1 0x00000000 in ?? ()
StacktraceTop:
 memcpy () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 ?? ()
ThreadStacktrace:
 .
 Thread 1 (process 8335):
 #0 0xb7e11b56 in memcpy () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 #1 0x00000000 in ?? ()
Title: dosemu.bin crashed with SIGSEGV in memcpy()
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

StacktraceTop:?? () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
main ()

[m seldon (m14219)]

I see very little about bug #219638 that relates it to this issue. It seems likely that the designation as a duplicate is incorrect.

[Michael Lamothe (lamothe-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

I agree, I have removed the link. Thanks.

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

hank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. Could test the current Ubuntu development version? It would help us greatly if you could test with it so we can work on getting it fixed in the next release of Ubuntu. You can find out more about the development release at http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/ .

I did attempt to reproduce this issue using Lucid. I am not able to. Perhaps you did run out of memory for the installer to use? Just a guess there.

Thanks again and we appreciate your help.

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. However, I am closing it because the bug has been fixed in the latest development version of Ubuntu - Lucid Lynx. It won't be fixed in previous versions of Ubuntu because the package doesn't fit the requirements for backporting. See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports for more information.