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Hi everyone,

I recently upgraded my Ubuntu Lucid Lynx distro (amd64) to the Maverick Meerkat Beta. However, my Crossover install doesn't seem to work properly anymore ; for instance (using Crossover Games 9.1) :

• when launching a Telltale Game, I get an error message indicating the "securom security module couldn't be actived" (well, I'm translating from French, it may differ)

• when launching Starcraft 2, I get the title screen, then it instantly crashes and gets back to the desktop

Out of curiosity, I tried some native games : they still work properly. BTW, an option is now added because of a compatiblity issue between Xorg and the nvidia proprietary drivers : "Option "IgnoreABI" "True". Apart from that, nothing special.

Did any of you upgrade to Ubuntu 10.10 beta as well ?

Cheers !

The nvidia-96 and nvidia-173 driver packages are incompatible with the x.org in Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick. Setting the IgnoreABI option may allow a 2D desktop to start and provide some basic functionality, but you cannot expect acceleration to be reliable.

Per https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/626974

The latest nvidia-current (which is 256.53) should start without the IgnoreABI option. If you are using nvidia-current, then you should upgrade the Nvidia driver and revert the x.org configuration.

Per https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/maverick/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers/+bug/616023

This driver glitch is a separate problem from the securerom error.

Hi !

Thanks for the reply. Actually, you are refering to a different issue. (ATM, I'm using the new 260.x Nvidia driver which fixes the compatibily issue with Xserver 1.9)

I made a relevant bug report here : https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wine1.2/+bug/632206
which seems to be related to : http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24193

I worked around this issue by editing /etc/sysctl.d/10-ptrace.conf and setting kernel.yama.ptrace_scope = 0, but I wonder what are the other consequences...

This way, everything is back to normal. But I guess it has to be fixed differently in wine.

I'm a little surprised there is no fix yet for this issue (it was fixed in upstream wine meanwhile) because it prevents users from using a big amount of apps (with copy protection for instance) unless they modify a security setting in the OS.

(Well I guess that's because one cannot just "backport" a single fix and hence a complete series of tests have to be performed as well)

cf http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24193

Hi,

Just FYI, I believe the next (9.2) release of Crossover has the
permissions issue introduced by 10.10 addressed in some way...

Cheers!

Yep, that's indeed very likely, thanks for the reply :)

It can be worked-around meanwhile (cf. my post above).