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Date:      Tue, 28 Jan 1997 23:33:30 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Jon Lido <jlido@vt.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Shared Memory problems?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.970128233248.24983u-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <199701241841.NAA10775@goof.com>

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On Fri, 24 Jan 1997, Jon Lido wrote:

> I'm having problems with The Gimp 0.54 and FreeBSD 2.1.5.  They seem
> related to SysV Shared Memory.
> 
> The Gimp will run for a while, but often dies with a message like:
> 
> gimp fatal error: shmget failed!
> gimp: killing: 756: /usr/local/lib/gimp/plug-ins/tiff
> 
> A note from the author of The Gimp makes me think that I've compiled my
> kernel wrong in some way.  (Of course it couldn't be the AUTHOR's fault! ;)
> 
> I have the following option set in my kernel configuration:
> 
> options     SYSVSHM
> 
> Which I thought was adequate to enable shared memory.  Is this true?
> Could it be I simply don't have enough RAM?  (16 Megs)

You should probably put it's two cousin options in too:

options SYSVSEM
options SYSVMSG

That may help.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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