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From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
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Subject: Re: problems installing the new StarOffice version
In-Reply-To: <199805190330.UAA00349@antipodes.cdrom.com> from Mike Smith at "May 18, 98 08:30:30 pm"
To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith)
Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 01:57:47 -0500 (EST)
Cc: lutz@muc.de, emulation@FreeBSD.ORG
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> 
> 
> That looks better.  Check for setup.ini
> 
> >   4329 setup.bin CALL  getpid
> >   4329 setup.bin RET   getpid 4329/0x10e9
> >   4329 setup.bin CALL  linux_open(0xefbfbdf0,0x800,0)
> >   4329 setup.bin NAMI  "/compat/linux/proc/4329/cmdline"
> >   4329 setup.bin NAMI  "/proc/4329/cmdline"
> >   4329 setup.bin RET   linux_open JUSTRETURN
> 
> This is still *&^%*&^%$c stupid.
> 
> >   4329 setup.bin PSIG  SIGSEGV caught handler=0x835e794 mask=0x0
> > code=0xc
> 
> And this is the same problem.
> 
> > This looks really funny. Does FreeBSD emulate the Linux /proc fs ? I
> > don't know WHY the did this, the older installer worked fine :-(
> 
> No, it doesn't.  It looks like someone Got Smart.  Does the setup.ini 
> file exist?  If not, try touching it and see what happens.
> 
> > > > Any Ideas ?
> > > 
> > > Not immediately, sorry.
> > 
> > :-(
> 
> Basically, we need to emulate more of the /proc cruft that Linux has.  
> *sigh*
> 
It is easy to add things to the procfs, too bad the effort is wasted on
Linux-junk compatibility.

John

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