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

[Jeff Hanson]

The 16-bit problem is due to a temporary kernel security fix for 64-bit
CPUs.  They're working on a long-term fix.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1328965

On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 8:55 AM, R Kannan <rk111810 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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