[mdlug] Wine cannot run 32 bit windows programs with recent kernel upgrade?

R Kannan rk111810 at gmail.com
Sat Oct 11 08:55:12 EDT 2014


After several patches to the kernel (I am in 3.2.0-70 now), the problem
still exists. I am assuming this is not going to be fixed and so
continue to reboot in older version :-(

Anyone having issues running 32 bit codes.

On 06/07/2014 01:11 PM, R KANNAN wrote:
> Thanks. That is what I have been doing to run some of the old windows
> code that I have to use But I do have automatic wakeup/shutdown and so
> I probably will update grub.cfg to make 3.2.0-63 as the default.
> Hopefully there will be a fix soon.
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 12:07 PM, Jeff Hanson <jhansonxi at gmail.com
> <mailto:jhansonxi at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Normally previous kernel versions are not removed during kernel
>     updates to
>     allow fall-back if the newest version doesn't boot.  Just hold the
>     shift
>     key at boot to get the grub menu then select an older version from the
>     list.  Looks like they will fix the problem in a later kernel release.
>
>
>     On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 7:31 AM, R Kannan <rk111810 at gmail.com
>     <mailto:rk111810 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     > Hi,
>     >
>     > I use Ubuntu 12.04 and last week  upgraded to Kernel 3.2.0-64
>     >
>     > cat /var/log/dpkg.log | grep "\ install\ "
>     > 2014-06-05 18:14:33 install linux-image-3.2.0-64-generic <none>
>     3.2.0-64.97
>     > 2014-06-05 18:15:17 install linux-headers-3.2.0-64 <none>
>     3.2.0-64.97
>     > 2014-06-05 18:15:24 install linux-headers-3.2.0-64-generic <none>
>     > 3.2.0-64.97
>     >
>     >
>     > Now I get the following error when I try to run a 32 bit windows
>     code in
>     > wine...
>     >
>     > modify_ldt: Invalid argument
>     > modify_ldt: Invalid argument
>     > modify_ldt: Invalid argument
>     > modify_ldt: Invalid argument
>     > modify_ldt: Invalid argument
>     > modify_ldt: Invalid argument
>     >
>     > Google search yields the following..
>     >
>     > http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=22568
>     >
>     > Looks like some 16 bit code (?) in my old windows executable is now
>     > somehow disabled.
>     >
>     > Any ideas?
>     >
>     > Thanks
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