CASE CLOSED, DOSEMU WORKS NOW!
Thank you all for your help and inspiration. There was nothing wrong
with dosemu, the problem was my corrupted FC3 system, and I can blame
only myself for corrupting it. Learning curve...
I started to review my system which I corrupted by removing some rpm-s
and compiling updated software in the past few years. Now I know a
little more and am more careful how to do things. Repairing and cleaning
my fc3 installation is a slow and painstaking process. This is why I did
not give an update recently. Franta's message today made me try dosemu
again, and this time it worked. Apparently the partial repair fixed it.
I don't know what and how, but the main thing is that it works.
Originally I planned to try dosemu after I finished my system repair.
Thank you all on this mailing list - Janos
Just to answer Franta's points:
On 05/04/2014 07:20 AM, Frantisek Hanzlik wrote:
Your strace seems normal. FYI, on my
and my shm kernel settings are:
# cat /proc/sys/kernel/{shmall,shmmax,shmmni}
2097152
33554432
4096
2097152
2147483647
4096
2) Your error message: '"/usr/share/dosemu/Xfonts": error scanning'
is perhaps caused by fc-cache problem. What You obtain on command:
fc-cache -v -f /usr/share/dosemu/Xfonts
/usr/share/dosemu/Xfonts: caching, new cache contents: 2 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/local/var/cache/fontconfig: cleaning cache directory
/root/.cache/fontconfig: not cleaning non-existent cache directory
/root/.fontconfig: not cleaning non-existent cache directory
fc-cache: succeeded
It should be successfull and in '/usr/share/dosemu/Xfonts' directory
should be created (empty) file 'fonts.cache-1'.
You should also verify dosemu RPM package right installation by cmd:
rpm -V dosemu
On my PC it produce only one line (which is OK):
.......T. /usr/share/dosemu/Xfonts/fonts.dir
My system produces no output.
Also, are You using xfs - X font server?
Yes, see more below.
Maybe You have somehow broken Your system - e.g. missing some files
or directories, bad ownership or permissions on them etc.
You can verify it by 'rpm -Va' command. This should not produce any
serious problems (it is necessary assessed output individually).
rpm -Va xfs produces no output, but I do have a problem with xfs. When I
boot and xfs service starts I get an error message stating that "error
scanning". But otherwise my system works, and apparently this is not
related to dosemu. Hopefully, as I clean up my system this is going to
be resolved as well.
3) Did You tried run dosemu in console and/or in Xterm in terminal
mode ('dosemu -t')? What is result?
It works both from console (Ctr-Alt-f1) or from xterm
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