Comment 3 for bug 704929

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Brain (brain) wrote : Re: [Bug 704929] [NEW] Dosemu 1.4.0.1 causing "general protection" error on Ubuntu 10.10

Well, then this version of dosemu should be IMHO removed from the
official distro and replaced with a working one ;-)

As a workaround I've copied over the 1.4.0.0 from my 9.10 backup and
everything is fine. But poor people who have no previous backup...

Regards
Petr Kulhavy

On 01/19/2011 04:06 PM, lemonnier wrote:
> So many people have the same problem
> I have decided to use tthe 1.4.0 +svn1828 (debian).
> No explanation for the moment
> Patrice Lemonnier
>
>
> Le mercredi 19 janvier 2011 à 14:47 +0000, Brain a écrit :
>> Public bug reported:
>>
>> Binary package hint: dosemu
>>
>> I have been using dosemu on Kubuntu 9.10 with Borland compiler (TLINK)
>> for a long time without problems but after upgrading to version 10.10 I
>> cannot run TLINK any more and I'm getting error:
>>
>> ERROR: general protection at 0x301ff: 0
>>
>> This seems to be related to the dosemu 1.4.0.1 package (actually
>> 1.4.0+svn.1999-2) in Ubuntu 10.10, since the old version of dosemu
>> (1.4.0.0) run from a backup of the 9.10 system is also working on 10.10
>