[Bug 12516] err:dosmem:setup_dos_mem error report on every run of Wine

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12516

--- Comment #3 from Austin English   2008-04-12 22:58:49 ---
(In reply to comment #2)
> > $ sudo sysctl -w vm.mmap_min_addr=0
> >
> > To make this setting permanent, add this line to /etc/sysctl.conf:
> > vm.mmap_min_addr=0
>
> That's very helpful.  I think this page
> http://www.linuxinsight.com/proc_sys_vm_mmap_min_addr.html explains the logic
> of this setting and probably why it's changed recently.
>
> Of course, this means that the message from Wine needs to change.  Presumably
> if it's really  a problem then it actually needs to be fixed by the user (or
> the wine install? ... probably a bad idea).

I sent a patch to wine-patches:
http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-patches/2008-April/053264.html