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Subject: Shared Memory problems?
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Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 13:41:42 -0500 (EST)
From: jlido@vt.edu (Jon Lido)
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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)

Thanks in advance,

Jon Lido