From owner-freebsd-smp Sun Dec 19 23: 4:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from mail.zuhause.org (c2-178.xtlab.com [205.215.217.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDC3014F6C for ; Sun, 19 Dec 1999 23:04:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bruce@zuhause.mn.org) Received: by mail.zuhause.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id F0AE17C31; Mon, 20 Dec 1999 01:04:18 -0600 (CST) From: Bruce Albrecht MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14429.54514.741408.247090@celery.zuhause.org> Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 01:04:18 -0600 (CST) To: Andreas Klemm Cc: smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: staroffice doesn't work with a 3.4-SMP kernel In-Reply-To: <19991220071515.A1654@titan.klemm.gtn.com> References: <19991220071515.A1654@titan.klemm.gtn.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org If you want to use StarOffice (or wine) on an SMP system, you'll need to upgrade to -current. There was some fix to the memory system around the time 3.1 came out that disabled forking with shared memory on an SMP system. This was eventually fixed in -current, but never retrofitted to -stable. Andreas Klemm writes: > I only get staroffice installed and working, when using a single > processor kernel. Otherwise both programs hang: > - the staroffice installation program which does the > user setup > install-user: > ${PREFIX}/Office51/bin/setup > - staroffice itself > > When using the SMP kernel, I get messages in the console window, > like that: > shared address space fork attempted: pid: 817 > shared address space fork attempted: pid: 817 > shared address space fork attempted: pid: 817 > shared address space fork attempted: pid: 817 > shared address space fork attempted: pid: 817 > shared address space fork attempted: pid: 817 > > When using the single processor kernel these messages doesn't show > up and everything works. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message