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lspci

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From: Virginia, USA

Registered: 2012-06-09

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[Solved] DOSbox won't start

Whenever I try to start dosbox to play Warcraft or the like this is what I get:

$ dosbox
DOSBox version 0.74
Copyright 2002-2010 DOSBox Team, published under GNU GPL.
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Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-open.c: 666: _dl_open: Assertion `_dl_debug_initialize (0, args.nsid)->r_state == RT_CONSISTENT' failed!

Any ideas?  I tried downgrading to Dosbox v.74.2, but that didn't seem to help, except that the old version required libpng14.

Last edited by lspci (2012-09-09 18:13:23)

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karol

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Re: [Solved] DOSbox won't start

dosbox works fine on my 32-bit Arch.
You can get libpng14 from AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=56248

lspci

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From: Virginia, USA

Registered: 2012-06-09

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Re: [Solved] DOSbox won't start

dosbox works fine on my 32-bit Arch.
You can get libpng14 from AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=56248

Well, I already downloaded and installed that from the AUR, but it still won't start.  What version of Dosbox are you using, Karol?  I believe that my OP includes the version of Dosbox that I'm using.

EDIT: I should've made a note of that when I made my OP--that I had already downloaded libpng14 from the AUR and the lib32-libpng14 as well, I believe.

Last edited by lspci (2012-08-28 19:53:01)

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karol

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Re: [Solved] DOSbox won't start

I'm using the current one, 0.74-3.

lspci

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From: Virginia, USA

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Re: [Solved] DOSbox won't start

I'm using the current one, 0.74-3.

Okay, that's the one I currently have installed.  I checked for it using

$ pacman -Qs dosbox

local/dosbox 0.74-3
    An emulator with builtin DOS for running DOS Games

But like I said when I run it using $ dosbox it spits out a bunch of errors. 

$ dosbox 

DOSBox version 0.74
Copyright 2002-2010 DOSBox Team, published under GNU GPL.
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Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-open.c: 666: _dl_open: Assertion `_dl_debug_initialize (0, args.nsid)->r_state == RT_CONSISTENT' failed!

EDIT: I'll check the Dosbox webpage to see if they have any information regarding the error.

EDIT2: Dosbox works fine on my new laptop.

Last edited by lspci (2012-09-09 18:13:40)

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