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"glibc detected/invalid pointer" error when starting dosbox

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First post, by Guest

Posted on 2005-04-22, 20:33

Guest Offline

Hello everyone,

I'm having a problem while trying to run Dosbox 0.63 on Redhat WS 4 after installing the RPM package.

Here's what it looks like:

1# dosbox
2*** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0x08943990 ***
3Aborted

I also tried running a program:

1# dosbox /dosgames/uw2/UW2.EXE -c "MOUNT D /dosgames"
2*** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0x08943990 ***
3Aborted

If it helps, prior to installing the dosbox rpm I installed SDL_net-1.2.5-2.i386.rpm, since it was a dosbox dependency.

Thanks for your time.

Reply 1 of 3, by bix

Posted on 2005-04-23, 08:25

bix Offline

try the fedora core 3 package instead of the 2 package.
(or compile dosbox yourself)

it works then.

Reply 2 of 3, by Guest

Posted on 2005-04-23, 17:46

Guest Offline

Okay thanks. I'll try that.

Reply 3 of 3, by Guest

Posted on 2005-04-23, 17:50

Guest Offline

I checked which version I had, and it was indeed a very old version. I got 0.63 for Fedora Core 3, and it works great. Thank you very much for the help.

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