Wine crashes saying 32GB data segment limit is not enough

[Korger]

Hello,

I'm using 13.2-RELEASE, and I'm trying to run an old (1996) Windows program in Wine. I'm installing it from CD. During installation, Wine crashes with the following error message:

Data segment size exceeds process limit

ulimit -d shows that my process limit is 33554432 kilobytes, that's 32GB. I find it difficult to believe this is not enough for a program from 1996. Is this another bug in Wine?

I was trying to set the limit to unlimited with ulimit -H -d unlimited as root, just to see what happens, but it didn't change the value. Can anyone advise what to do?

 

[kent_dorfman766]

Are you running wine itself as root? It's generally frowned upon, but maybe your old app won't run unless it can do root-ish stuff.

 

[richardtoohey2]

There was a write-up linked from lobste.rs about an old Windows program that failed to install because it had unexpectedly huge resources available. Could it be anything like that? Don’t think so in this case because not really running under emulation as such

Salt Lake 2002 - not enough memory/crashes to desktop after starting error (Windows 7) \ VOGONS

www.vogons.org

 

[thindil]

That can be a sign of something different, a bug in the Wine version. The easiest way to test is to use a different wine version: emulators/wine-devel, emulators/wine or emulators/wine-proton. It is quite common that Windows programs work only with one version of Wine and not with others.

 

[cracauer@]

My money is on a wine bug.

I can run 1990s programs in wine with the same `ulimit -d`. Can you run other programs than the intended target program?

 

[sko]

Wild guess: due to (artificial) restrictions in Windows at that time regarding memory size, software wasn't meant to be able to handle "huge" amounts of memory - i.e. anything above ~4GB (or even less). Maybe that program uses e.g. a 32bit integer when evaluating memory size at start, which would overflow with anything >4GB.
TLDR: Instead of trying ulimit -d unlimited I'd try something like ulimit -d <value <4GB> (or even below 2GB)

 

[hazy]

I remember Windows 98 used to have issues above 1GB RAM or perhaps even 768MB, this may be true for some software too.

 

[LibreQuest]

In 96 32MB would be a huge amount of ram. So 32GB is insane.

Edit: I've just realized I've misread the title...I'll just be walking away then ..good day all.