GCC 4.4.

I can only run DOSBOX (hand-compiled or otherwise) if it's in a folder in my PATH variable.

I cannot explicitly specify /usr/bin/dosbox or ./dosbox.

I'm going to try to get to the bottom of this today.

I spent all last night working on the problem.

It seems to be tied to the installation of a package that's either required for build or is part of the security updates.

I should probably try to replicate this since I'm now running Ubuntu 9.10 (dual booting with XP) on my laptop.

I'm still not having any problems so far.

Fresh 9.10 install, performed a security upgrade (including kernel), installed dosbox, downloaded dosbox source, installed prereqs/devtools, compiled, and everything runs with no segmentation faults.

Also installed Nvidia graphics driver with hardware drivers applet.

At this point yesterday my entire system was FUBAR.

Running x86_64, btw.

Still running just fine.

Third re-install is a charm, I suppose?

Don't jinx it 😀

memtest

HunterZ wrote:

I should probably try to replicate this since I'm now running Ubuntu 9.10 (dual booting with XP) on my laptop.

Do you use Wubi?

h-a-l-9000 wrote:

memtest

Ahhh, excellent recommendation.

I forgot I had helpdesk add another 4gb of RAM to the box last week.

😁

My mandriva install also locked completely up twice today.

Varka wrote:

HunterZ wrote:

I should probably try to replicate this since I'm now running Ubuntu 9.10 (dual booting with XP) on my laptop.

Do you use Wubi?

Nope, I was previously dual-booting XP 32-bit with Win7 x64 RC1, but since the Win7 RC was about to expire I decided to nuke it and install Ubuntu in its place (on its own partition). Ubuntu's installer set up GRUB to let me choose between booting WinXP from the XP parition or various Linux kernels from the Ubuntu partition.

Wubi is pretty awesome if you're a Windows-only sort of guy.

It creates a virtual disk on your hard drive and adds Ubuntu to the Windows XP/Vista/Win7 menu.

It's not virtualization, it actually lets you boot natively into Ubuntu.

http://wubi-installer.org/

I've heard of it, but it wasn't an issue since I had the spare partition available.

Might use it to test out Ubuntu on my old desktop though, since the WinXP install on there is getting a bit too crufty and I'm mostly using it as a file server and web browsing machine now anyways.

I pulled the extra 4gb out of the laptop that was installed last week.

Mandriva no longer locked up randomly.

I haven't had time to run a full memtest86 pass, but I'm hopeful that it was a bad stick of RAM, which makes perfect sense.