dosemu will not run

dosemu will not run

[Anthony Johns]

My O/s is ubuntu 6.06 dosemu will not open, I deleted dosemu by the add
remove programs facility, and then down loaded a presumably the latest
version, this will still not open. A program is present in
applications/other and is listed as DOS emulator, is this the dosemu
program? This will not open.  Thanks Tony Johns

Re: dosemu will not run

[John Coppens]

On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:12:25 +0000
Anthony Johns <valfet@ntlworld.com> wrote:

> My O/s is ubuntu 6.06 dosemu will not open, I deleted dosemu by the add
> remove programs facility, and then down loaded a presumably the latest
> version, this will still not open. A program is present in
> applications/other and is listed as DOS emulator, is this the dosemu
> program? This will not open.  Thanks Tony Johns

'Will not run' is the typical message that will do nothing to get you
help, Tony. Try to be a little more explicit. Did you check the logs?
Did you try to open a terminal window, and type 'dosemu', or 'xdosemu'?
If so, which messages  appear on the screen? Did you edit
the /etc/dosemu/dosemu.conf file for your needs? Did you install the
freedos package too (else you will have nothing to run in your dos
session). 

John

Re: dosemu will not run

[James Courtier-Dutton]

John Coppens wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:12:25 +0000
> Anthony Johns <valfet@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> My O/s is ubuntu 6.06 dosemu will not open, I deleted dosemu by the add
>> remove programs facility, and then down loaded a presumably the latest
>> version, this will still not open. A program is present in
>> applications/other and is listed as DOS emulator, is this the dosemu
>> program? This will not open.  Thanks Tony Johns
>>     
>
> 'Will not run' is the typical message that will do nothing to get you
> help, Tony. Try to be a little more explicit. Did you check the logs?
> Did you try to open a terminal window, and type 'dosemu', or 'xdosemu'?
> If so, which messages  appear on the screen? Did you edit
> the /etc/dosemu/dosemu.conf file for your needs? Did you install the
> freedos package too (else you will have nothing to run in your dos
> session). 
>
> John
>   
This raises a point that why does one always have to open are terminal 
windows to diagnose problems?
I think that would be the next big improvement to Linux desktop usability.

James

Re: dosemu will not run

[Andrew Brooks]

Anthony Johns <valfet@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>>> My O/s is ubuntu 6.06 dosemu will not open

John Coppens wrote:
>> 'Will not run' is the typical message that will do nothing to get you
>> help, Tony.

I would congratulate Tony on actually being keen enough to find and
join the appropriate mailing list.  Most people would just give up
straight away and move on, leaving the developers totally unaware that
nobody can use their program!

>> Try to be a little more explicit. Did you check the logs?
>> Did you try to open a terminal window, and type 'dosemu', or 'xdosemu'?
>> If so, which messages  appear on the screen? Did you edit
>> the /etc/dosemu/dosemu.conf file for your needs? Did you install the
>> freedos package too (else you will have nothing to run in your dos
>> session).

These are all good suggestions but some of them will mean nothing to some-
one who just clicked "install dosemu" and then tried to run it from a menu!

James Courtier-Dutton <James@superbug.co.uk> wrote:
> This raises a point that why does one always have to open are terminal
> windows to diagnose problems?

Maybe if all applications logged their errors to a common place
and there was a GUI for viewing logs in all linux distributions then
at least the right error message could be found!  Something like the
event viewer in Windows.

Tony, have a look in /var/log/syslog and in the .xsession-errors file
in your home directory.  Try to re-run dosemu and see if any new errors
appear.

Open a terminal window (console / Konsole / XTerm or similar) and run
"xdosemu" and look for errors.  If that doesn't work try "dosemu".
Report the errors here, or to the Ubuntu people.

Andrew