Doom crashes on title screen with error DRC64:Unhandled memory reference

[shankao]

Launch Doom on dosbox on a termina, wait to the title screen, get this crash in the terminal output:

Exit to error: DRC64:Unhandled memory reference

The problem seems to be worked on and fixed in the SVN version of dosbox, but it's been 6 years since v0.74 and there's no clue on when they'll be releasing the next stable release. Ubuntu/debian should think to base their packages on a svn snapshot instead.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: dosbox 0.74-4.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-18.34-generic 4.4.6
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-18-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Wed Apr 13 00:07:19 2016
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-11-25 (1234 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Alpha amd64 (20120627)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_SG:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_SG.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: dosbox
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2015-03-14 (394 days ago)

[shankao (shankao)]

Upstream bug report: https://sourceforge.net/p/dosbox/bugs/413/
Upstream forum discussion: http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=45111

[shankao (shankao)]

Works in dosbox svn.
Tested on this ppa: https://launchpad.net/~emulation/+archive/ubuntu/ppa

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Vasya Pupkin (shadowlmd)]

Since it's fixed in latest version can it be backported please?

[shankao (shankao)]

There's not any newer stable release, and hasn't been for 6 years. The PPA shown above packages an SVN snapshot for ubuntu and I've been using it for a while without any problems. It fixes the DooM crash too.
In my opinion it would be better to get that PPA package included in the main repositories instead. There're too many changes and fixes on it, and little hope to see an official stable release soon.

[Vasya Pupkin (shadowlmd)]

Bump

[Selmi (selmi)]

still problem on 17.04 and PPA above doesn't help, it doesn't have zeisty package

[shankao (shankao)]

Sorry for the wait.
If it helps, I've just rebuilt the dosbox in the PPA to the last svn release and made it available for both zesty and the current development release (artful).
Tested with DooM in artful and it works correctly

[Miro Janosik (miro-janosik-geo)]

Still problem in 17.10 Artful with games like "Worms Plus", "Quake 1 shareware"

Workaround is described here:
Changing the value in the ~/.dosbox/dosbox-0.74.conf from core=auto to core=simple
Source: https://askubuntu.com/questions/853530/dosbox-not-working-on-16-10

[xennex82 (xennex82)]

Changing the value for core to "simple" is not a workaround because it renders the performance non-functional.

It got fixed in Debian in version 0.74-4-3, which means that this package has been broken in Ubuntu for a year and a half, or three consecutive releases.

It first made its appearance in Bionic which is as of yet unreleased, but the Bionic version immediately fixes the performance issues (and otherwise crashes) and is installable without any extra dependencies on Yakkety, Zesty and Artful.

You can download it here:

https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/amd64/dosbox

[Alexey (alexey.u.m)]

Fix in Bionic.
https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/dosbox