Why doesn't CrossOver Office work on Fedora and RedHat Enterprise Linux 3

With the Fedora and RHEL 3 releases, RedHat has introduced two new features to their Linux: 'prelink' and 'exec shield'. Unfortunately both completely break Wine and therefore CrossOver.

We are still working to better understand the problem but the current workaround is to disable both.

To disable prelink, edit /etc/sysconfig/prelink and change 'yes' to 'no'. Then manually run /etc/cron.daily/prelink as root.

To disable exec shield edit /etc/rc.d/rc.local and add the line

echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/exec-shield

This will turn exec shield off at boot time, to turn it off now type the following command as root

# echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/exec-shield

On Redhat Enterprise Linux 3 you will need to run the following command in the same terminal you launch OfficeSetup or a Crossover based application.

$ ulimit -s unlimited

The above command only affects the shell that it is run in.

i had the same problem. when my box died i reinstalled the OS (enterprise 3) and was having a problem installing crossover and getting it to work properly. the only way that i got it to work again (which i had installed previously but didnt think about it) was to install java back onto my system and then set up the paths. hope that helps.

IT worked great for me. Thanks.