Re: Problem with dosemu

Frantisek Hanzlik
2014-04-21T20:19:03Z

jankomEarthlink wrote:
> Hi Franta,
>
> Thanks for the quick reply.
>
> See below my answers and comments:
>
> On 04/14/2014 06:22 PM, Frantisek Hanzlik wrote:
>> Hi Janos, dosemu has log in user home directory, '~/.dosemu/boot.log' -
>> is there anything?
> Thanks, this section may show something
> ...
> CONF: reserving 64Kb at 0xE0000 for 'E' (EMS page frame)
> ERROR: cpu exception in dosemu code outside of VM86()!
> trapno: 0x0e errorcode: 0x00000004 cr2: 0x0419eab7
> eip: 0x001135a0 esp: 0xbfdb8db4 eflags: 0x00210282
> cs: 0x0073 ds: 0x007b es: 0x007b ss: 0x007b
> ERROR: Fault handler re-entered! signal=11 _trapno=0xE
> leavedos(1|0x1) called - shutting down
> leavedos() called from within a signal context!
> ERROR: leavedos called recursively, forgetting the graceful exit!
>
> I seem to remember that a few years back, the time when FC-3 was the new
> thing, I installed dosemu and it never worked. But I could be wrong.
> ...

Hi Janos,

this reminded me of something similar that I have met cca three years
ago. You can try to find my thread "same distro, svn1999 DOSEMU
crashes on some PCs on SEGV, on others run fine" from 12/13/2010 in
dosemu-users list - this was on Fedora 14, but this may be same
problem which you see now on Fedora 3.

But something better - I managed to compile almost last dosemu devel
version on Fedora 3 i686, and this work well at me machine, both in
console and under X (also both in terminal mode 'dosemu -t' and with
native X (xdosemu).
Because there was lots things corrected and improved, maybe it will
run on Your system too. There is only one particularity:
after installing RPM and first dosemu run must be copied kernel.sys
to C:\ drive:

cp /usr/share/dosemu/drive_z/kernel.sys ~/.dosemu/drives/c/

You can download RPM and SRPM package at:
http://www.hanzlici.cz/packages/fedora/dosemu/fc3/dosemu-1.4.0.8-git621.g431face.3.dbgemu.fc3.i686.rpm
http://www.hanzlici.cz/packages/fedora/dosemu/fc3/dosemu-1.4.0.8-git621.g431face.3.dbgemu.fc3.src.rpm

Good luck, Franta Hanzlik