From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750801AbWDVAxo (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Apr 2006 20:53:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750802AbWDVAxo (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Apr 2006 20:53:44 -0400 Received: from mcr-smtp-002.bulldogdsl.com ([212.158.248.8]:28432 "EHLO mcr-smtp-002.bulldogdsl.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750801AbWDVAxo (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Apr 2006 20:53:44 -0400 X-Spam-Abuse: Please report all spam/abuse matters to abuse@bulldogdsl.com From: Alistair John Strachan To: Andi Kleen Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.17-rc2 Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 01:53:44 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 Cc: Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List References: <200604220002.16824.ak@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <200604220002.16824.ak@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200604220153.44984.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Friday 21 April 2006 23:02, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Friday 21 April 2006 18:40, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Alistair John Strachan wrote: > > > Something in here (or -rc1, I didn't test that) broke WINE. x86-64 > > > kernel, 32bit WINE, works fine on 2.6.16.7. I'll check whether -rc1 had > > > the same problem and work backwards, but just in case somebody has an > > > idea.. > > > > Nothing strikes me, but maybe Andi has a clue. > > NX for 32bit programs is enabled by default now. Does it > work with noexec32=off? > > If it's that then it won't work with PAE kernels on i386 and NX > capable machines neither - i just changed the default to be > the same as 32bit, but unlike 32bit all x86-64 kernels use PAE > and many of the systems have NX. > > If it's not that don't know what it could be. I actually even used a > simple wine program with a post rc2 kernel and it worked for me. > > So it isn't anything fundamental. Maybe some bad interaction > with copy protection again, but I don't remember changing ptrace > at all this time. > > > Alistair, if you can do a "git bisect" on this one, that would help. > > If noexec32=off doesn't help please do. > If noexec32 helps then it's likely a wine bug for using the wrong > protections. [alistair] 01:52 [~] uname -rm 2.6.17-rc2 x86_64 [alistair] 01:52 [~] cat /proc/cmdline vga=794 root=/dev/sda1 quiet noexec32=off [alistair] 01:51 [~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Warcraft III] wine war3.exe -opengl err:ole:CoCreateInstance apartment not initialised fixme:advapi:SetSecurityInfo stub Aaand wine suddenly starts working again. Looks like a bug in WINE; is there any additional information required before I can file a bug report on this one? Thanks. -- Cheers, Alistair. Third year Computer Science undergraduate. 1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK.