dosemu won't start, ERROR: coopthreads: lowmem heap + stack are too big

I can confirm this bug. running Ubuntu Dapper, /etc/dosemu/dosemu.conf $_layout = "de"

daniel@voyager:~$ uname -a
Linux voyager 2.6.15-26-686 #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Jul 17 20:14:14 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux

I confirm it, too. Ubuntu Dapper, 2.6.15-26-386

Tried later version of freedos package as suggested for Bug #52857 by Mantas Kriaučiūnas.

Downloaded and installed package dosemu-freedos_0.0.b9r5a-3_i386.deb (from Debian unstable or testing).

More detailed instructions if anyone needs them:-
Browse to Debian mirror list for package http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/download.pl?arch=i386&file=pool%2Fcontrib%2Fd%2Fdosemu-freedos%2Fdosemu-freedos_0.0.b9r5a-3_i386.deb&md5sum=dbdb9b3d6d70d2713611969eb50a3f9c&arch=i386&type=main
Download package from one of the mirrors.
Uninstall dosemu-freedos version b8p-4, eg. using Synaptic Package Manager.
Install downloaded package, eg. right-click file and select 'Open with "GDebi Package Installer"'.
Remember to uninstall the Debian package when official Ubuntu version available.

Afterwards dosemu seems to work properly both in terminal window and after text mode login.

This seems to cure both this Bug #53384 and also Bug #52857

Suggestion to maintainer: please change Dapper to use the above version, there does not seem to be much reason to keep the current unusable version.

Dapper is Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Long Term Support)

I think this implies that this problem should be corrected in Dapper. Edgy is not released yet, and even then support for Dapper will still be required.

This Bug #53384 and Bug #52857 together with Bug #53996 against dosemu all need to be fixed to get dosemu working properly on Ubuntu. None require upstream patches, they just require using the correct versions from upstream.

Dosemu has been around for a few years and I think most Linux users would expect all releases of Ubuntu to have a working version.

Would the maintainer please set the importance to "Medium".

setting to medium... will be next on my list.

same problem with edgy 06.10

Hi,

for edgy, there is already a newer version available via edgy-backports. For dapper this will follow soon.

We've been considering to shove the newer dosemu-freedos through -updates, but the changes were too disruptive.

Cheers,
    Stefan.

I can't find the new version in edgy-backports. The versions I see are
dosemu 1.2.2-5ubuntu1 and
dosemu-freedos b8p-4

That's the same as with backports disabled.

???

Same here... Just added the edgy-backports and see nothing different...

Hi,

sorry, I've read bug #73056 (conecerned about backporting) wrong. Seems like it's still waiting for a final approval from an archive-admin.

Cheers,
   Stefan.

Could you then post an URL for us to get the debs??

Em Qui, 2007-01-11 às 21:11 +0000, StefanPotyra escreveu:
> Hi,
>
> sorry, I've read bug #73056 (conecerned about backporting) wrong. Seems
> like it's still waiting for a final approval from an archive-admin.
>
> Cheers,
> Stefan.
>
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Could you then get us an URL for the debs?

Hi,

you can safely install the feisty package of dosemu-freedos, since it's from a packaging point of view just a data package (during package building, nothing gets compiled).

http://packages.ubuntu.com/cgi-bin/download.pl?arch=i386&file=pool%2Fmultiverse%2Fd%2Fdosemu-freedos%2Fdosemu-freedos_0.0.b9r5a-3_i386.deb&md5sum=d10f2eb84b7448c82df184073c9ee9bb&arch=i386&type=main

Cheers,
    Stefan.

rejecting from dosemu.

unassign myself, as its in the hands of backports.