xdosemu - launch oddity

Justin Zygmont jzygmont at solarflow.net
Mon Jun 12 07:07:44 UTC 2006


i've been using dosemu for years, from what I understand, there has been a 
problem with FC5 and dosemu, thet the development team was working on. 
Perhaps the dosemu list may be able to provide more info on that, there 
may be a fix already.



On Sun, 11 Jun 2006, Laurence Vanek wrote:

> I have a satellite tracking program I am running from an X session using 
> xdosemu.
>
> When attempting to run "xdosemu" from user account I get:
>
> "Illegal instruction"
>
> Heres the odd part. if I type xdosemu 3-4 times in succession (get "Illegal 
> instruction" each time) it will finally start in a terminal window.  After 
> that all is well, works perfectly in running the dos program I want.
>
> Has anyone experienced this or am I missing something in how to start up 
> dosemu?  Dont find anything in /var/log/messages that relates to this.
>
> Im running FC5 with 2.6.16-1.2122_FC5 kernel.   dosemu came from yum repo 
> (dosemu-1.3.3-2.fc5).
>
>




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