Transgaming WineX (specifically EverQuest) under Fedora 0.94

[Deryk Lister]

I posted the following message to the TransGaming messageboards, and
will also post it here in case anyone has any ideas!  The problem, I
think, is with the kernel but I've yet to put my finger on it.

This thread seems to outline a similar problem, and the same method I
tried (grabbing a vanilla kernel and compiling with a Fedora .config
file) but whilst it worked for this person it didn't work for me:

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2003-September/msg00218.html

The TransGaming post is as follows

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Location: http://www.transgaming.com/postlist.php?forum=14

WineX Version: 3.1
Distribution: Fedora Core 0.94
Video Card: Geforce2. Driver: nvidia
Sound Card: C-media - onboard
Game Title: EverQuest


I'm running the 2nd pre-release of Fedora Linux "Severn" build,
previously known as Red Hat Linux 10. 

When running winex3 -debugmsg +err eqgame.exe patchme I get: 

err:win32:do_relocations Standard load address for a Win32 program
(0x00400000) not available - security-patched kernel ? 
err:win32:do_relocations FATAL: Need to relocate
G:stuffgamesEverQuesteqgame.exe, but no relocation records present
(stripped during link). Try to run that file directly ! 
/usr/lib/transgaming_winex3//winex/bin/wine: can't exec 'eqgame.exe
patchme': error=21 

EQ is running from a mounted FAT32 partition, if it makes any
difference. 

Picking up on the bit about "patched kernel" I downloaded a vanilla
kernel and used the Fedora .config file stored as: 
/usr/src/linux-2.4.22-1.2061.nptl/configs/kernel-2.4.22-athlon.config 
but sadly this didn't solve the problem. 

After a search on the Fedora mailing lists, I also tried: 
echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/exec-shield 
echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/exec-shield-randomize 
to no avail. With the vanilla kernel, these files don't even exist. 

Any suggestions/workarounds appreciated! 

(I'd quite like to see this fixed - without workarounds - before Fedora
is released, if anything to prevent newbs getting put off. Will help in
any way I can, but note I'm not a programmer) 

Cheers

[James Drabb]

On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 19:32, Deryk Lister wrote:
>  I posted the following message to the TransGaming messageboards, and
>  will also post it here in case anyone has any ideas!  The problem, I
>  think, is with the kernel but I've yet to put my finger on it.
>  
>  This thread seems to outline a similar problem, and the same method I
>  tried (grabbing a vanilla kernel and compiling with a Fedora .config
>  file) but whilst it worked for this person it didn't work for me:
>  
>  http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2003-September/msg00218.html
<snip>
>  Any suggestions/workarounds appreciated! 
>  
>  (I'd quite like to see this fixed - without workarounds - before Fedora
>  is released, if anything to prevent newbs getting put off. Will help in
>  any way I can, but note I'm not a programmer) 
>  
>  Cheers 
It could  be prelinking or nptl.  You could try to set PRELINKING=no in
/etc/sysconfig/prelink

You can also try to run winex with LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1, e.x.

LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1 winex3 eqgame.exe

Or just export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1 before you run winex3 from a
terminal.

Jim Drabb
-- 
James Drabb 
Senior Programmer Analyst 
Davenport, FL USA
JDrabb_REMOVE(a)tampabay.rr.com