What's wrong with wine?

[Edward M]

On 07/27/14 13:40, Erik P. Olsen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Whenever I run this msdos program using wine I get:
>
> [erik at epohost ~]$ wine W2K/"Program Files"/Baron/baron.exe
> modify_ldt: Invalid argument
> err:winediag:build_module Failed to create module for "krnl386.exe",
> 16-bit LDT support may be missing.
> err:module:attach_process_dlls "krnl386.exe16" failed to initialize,
> aborting
> err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for
> L"C:\\windows\\system32\\winevdm.exe" failed, status c0000142
>
> It worked many years ago but now it errs. What could be wrong?
>

    issuing echo 1 > /proc/sys/abi/ldt16

    was mentioned as a possible workaround:
    http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=22540#p94852