When I'm trying to run a windows program with wine or when I'm trying to run winecfg I get this error message: $ winecfg err:heap:HEAP_GetPtr Invalid heap (nil)! err:heap:HEAP_GetPtr Invalid heap (nil)! err:heap:HEAP_GetPtr Invalid heap (nil)! err:task:TASK_CreateMainTask could not create task for main process I searched with Google for "could not create task for main process" and found a forum thread in the polish Gentoo forum: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-592820.html?sid= It seems that PaX is causing trouble but I used chpax on wine-preloader, wine-pthread, wineserver and wine but nothing changed. wine was compiled with x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.6-vanilla # emerge --info Portage 2.1.3.19 (hardened/amd64/multilib, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.3.6-r5, 2.6.20-hardened-r10 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.20-hardened-r10 x86_64 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz Timestamp of tree: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 09:00:01 +0000 distcc 2.18.3 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p17 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.33-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r6 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.9-r2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.24 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.22-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=nocona -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /opt/mpd/conf /usr/NX/etc /usr/NX/home /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=nocona -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/src/portage-distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache confcache distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/ http://gentoo.tiscali.nl/ http://gentoo.mneisen.org/ http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/gentoo/ http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/gentoo-mirror/" LANG="de_DE.utf8" LC_ALL="de_DE.utf8" LINGUAS="fr de en_GB" PKGDIR="/usr/local/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/mnt/sda1/portage" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="16bit 7zip X a52 aac aalib accessibility acct ace acl acpi activefilter adsl agg aiglx aim akode alsa amd64 amr amuled animgif ao aoss arj auth avantgo avi background bash-completion berkdb bluetooth bonjour bzip2 cairo calendar canna cap capi cdda cddb cdparanoia cdr cdrom cgi charconv chardet chipcard chipcard2 chm cjk cracklib crypt cups dmx dri dts dv dvb dvd dvdr dvdread enca esd eurofile fax flac gdbm geoip gif gimpprint gpm gps gtk hardened ipv6 jpeg jpeg2k justify kerberos lame ldap libcaca midi mng mp3 mpeg multilib ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl pam perl pic png python readline sdl sse2 ssl svg tcpd tiff unicode urandom usb vorbis wmf xcb xinerama xml xorg xprint xv zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse vmmouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="fr de en_GB" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="ati dummy fbdev i810 mach64 nv r128 s3 s3virge sis v4l vesa vga via vmware radeon" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Use paxctl. chpax is obsolete.
It seems that the ebuild doesn't set the right PaX attributes. I tried paxctl now and I got wine working again. # paxctl -v /usr/bin/wine PaX control v0.5 Copyright 2004,2005,2006,2007 PaX Team <pageexec@freemail.hu> - PaX flags: -------x-e-- [/usr/bin/wine] RANDEXEC is disabled EMUTRAMP is disabled # paxctl -p -e -m -r -x -s /usr/bin/wine # paxctl -v /usr/bin/wine PaX control v0.5 Copyright 2004,2005,2006,2007 PaX Team <pageexec@freemail.hu> - PaX flags: -p-s-m-x-e-r [/usr/bin/wine] PAGEEXEC is disabled SEGMEXEC is disabled MPROTECT is disabled RANDEXEC is disabled EMUTRAMP is disabled RANDMMAP is disabled I also used "paxctl -p -e -m -r -x -s /usr/bin/wine*" (lots of "file /usr/bin/winefoobar is not a valid ELF executable" warnings) to go sure.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 164814 ***
