It looks like this is powerpc specific. It isn't a permission problem. It's the vdso mapping. I don't think this can be fixed without a custom kernel. @James: Sorry, I missed your mail. > The FAQ answer that Austin was pointing you to is a workaround for > this bug that we found with the Wine project. This wasn't the case (thanks anyway). > Next: How are you invoking Qemu to work with Wine? binfmt-support, no extra parameters. Just to make sure, I'm not using the official qemu. It can't use native libraries yet. Bye.