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Date:      Mon, 05 Feb 2007 00:15:14 -0600
From:      "Jeremy Messenger" <mezz7@cox.net>
To:        "Michael Johnson" <ahze@ahze.net>
Cc:        multimedia@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: VLC Crash on AMD64 FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE
Message-ID:  <op.tm9ibotg9aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com>
In-Reply-To: <b2203fed0702041412r2b20f968r8196851b9abe48da@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, 04 Feb 2007 16:12:23 -0600, Michael Johnson <ahze@ahze.net> wrote:

> On 2/4/07, Jeremy Messenger <mezz7@cox.net> wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, 04 Feb 2007 05:06:16 -0600, dwerner1974 <dwerner1974@yahoo.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Hello.
>> >
>> > I get this error message when I try to start vlc after
>> > a cvsup and portmaster from yesterday (02/03/2007).
>> >
>> > VLC media player 0.8.5 Janus
>> >
>> > (.:17300): Gdk-WARNING **: shmget failed: error 12
>> > (Cannot allocate memory)
>> > [00000280] xvideo video output error: cannot allocate
>> > shared image data (Cannot allocate memory)
>> > zsh: bus error  vlc
>>
>> You have ran out of shared memory. You should increase it, you can do  
>> same
>> as suggested in multimedia/xine/pkg-message and reboot your machine.
>
>
> Maybe we should add a similar pkg-message for vlc?

Sounds good to me. Actually, I think that FreeBSD should change the  
default. These day, desktop runs better if we follow that  
multimedia/xine/pkg-message.

Cheers,
Mezz

> Michael


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