From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 29 14:22: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wdc.callgtn.com (wdc.callgtn.com [209.47.57.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABB9B37B400 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 14:21:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from callgtn.com [24.114.251.145] by wdc.callgtn.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.04) id A161B60144; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 17:21:21 -0500 Message-ID: <3A258170.AE4EA929@callgtn.com> Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 17:21:36 -0500 From: Erik Rothwell Reply-To: erothwell@callgtn.com Organization: xxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxx X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Gdk-WARNING: shmget() failed & Other SHM problems. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi folks, I've come across the most frustrating problem that I can't seem to find any information about anywhere. Shared memory. I'm not even sure what shared memory actually is, except that everything X11 wants it. And nothing I run, it seems, is getting any of it. Doesn't matter what program I run, at what stage in the computer's uptime, always always always: Gdk-WARNING: shmget() failed, or, various IMLIB errors pertaining to SHM. Now, the only information I was able to find regarding SysV shared memory and FreeBSD was a discussion group posting explaining how to increase the max segment size, which I did in my kernel. Here's some info: bacchusrx% ipcs -M shminfo: shmmax: 67108864 (max shared memory segment size) shmmin: 1 (min shared memory segment size) shmmni: 4096 (max number of shared memory identifiers) shmseg: 256 (max shared memory segments per process) shmall: 1024 (max amount of shared memory in pages) Also, I checked out this imlib thing and shared memory is all turned on and fuzzy there, so I can't figure this one out. Absolutely everything wants this shared memory stuff, but nobody seems to be getting any... which I think is causing problems when I do multimedia stuff as well... I'm running FreeBSD 4.2 with XFree86 3.3.6 with GNOME 1.2 and Enlightenment 0.16.4 or .5 I don't remember. If I just type "ipcs" I get: Message Queues: T ID KEY MODE OWNER GROUP Shared Memory: T ID KEY MODE OWNER GROUP m 2228224 0 --rwarwarwa bacchusrx wheel m 2293761 0 --rwarwarwa bacchusrx wheel m 2293762 0 --rwarwarwa bacchusrx wheel m 2293763 0 --rwarwarwa bacchusrx wheel m 2162692 0 --rwarwarwa bacchusrx wheel m 78708741 0 --rwarwarwa bacchusrx wheel m 103743494 0 --rwarwarwa bacchusrx wheel m 1122238471 0 --rwarwarwa bacchusrx wheel m 1653735432 0 --rwarwarwa bacchusrx wheel m 1028784137 0 --rwarwarwa bacchusrx wheel m 86704138 0 --rwarwarwa bacchusrx wheel m 835649547 0 --rwarwarwa bacchusrx wheel m 620429324 0 --rwarwarwa bacchusrx wheel m 10289165 0 --rwarwarwa bacchusrx wheel m 18219022 0 --rwarwarwa bacchusrx wheel m 229572623 0 --rwarwarwa bacchusrx wheel m 691601424 0 --rwarwarwa bacchusrx wheel m 10682385 0 --rwarwarwa bacchusrx wheel m 28442642 0 --rwarwarwa bacchusrx wheel m 45088787 0 --rwarwarwa bacchusrx wheel m 248446996 0 --rwarwarwa bacchusrx wheel m 824705045 0 --rwarwarwa bacchusrx wheel m 838467606 0 --rwarwarwa bacchusrx wheel m 5767191 0 --rwarwarwa bacchusrx wheel m 691732504 0 --rwarwarwa bacchusrx wheel m 1506344985 0 --rwarwarwa bacchusrx wheel m 1189216282 0 --rwarwarwa bacchusrx wheel m 50528283 0 --rwarwarwa bacchusrx wheel m 40173596 0 --rwarwarwa bacchusrx wheel m 1323237405 0 --rwarwarwa bacchusrx wheel m 284688414 0 --rwarwarwa bacchusrx wheel m 1390805023 0 --rwarwarwa bacchusrx wheel m 742981664 0 --rwarwarwa bacchusrx wheel m 104136737 0 --rwarwarwa bacchusrx wheel m 16056354 0 --rwarwarwa bacchusrx wheel m 862388259 0 --rwarwarwa bacchusrx wheel m 66846756 0 --rwarwarwa bacchusrx wheel m 27787301 0 --rwarwarwa bacchusrx wheel m 777846822 0 --rwarwarwa bacchusrx wheel m 88670247 0 --rwarwarwa bacchusrx wheel m 177340456 0 --rwarwarwa bacchusrx wheel m 109641769 0 --rwarwarwa bacchusrx wheel m 1986986026 0 --rwarwarwa bacchusrx wheel m 174063659 0 --rwarwarwa bacchusrx wheel m 1984823340 0 --rwarwarwa bacchusrx wheel m 1922891821 0 --rwarwarwa bacchusrx wheel m 118226990 0 --rwarwarwa bacchusrx wheel m 305201199 0 --rwarwarwa bacchusrx wheel m 432472112 0 --rwarwarwa bacchusrx wheel m 1760952369 0 --rwarwarwa bacchusrx wheel m 1878982706 0 --rwarwarwa bacchusrx wheel m 967442483 0 --rwarwarwa bacchusrx wheel m 798425140 0 --rwarwarwa bacchusrx wheel m 1093992501 0 --rwarwarwa bacchusrx wheel m 2092171318 0 --rwarwarwa bacchusrx wheel m 113049655 0 --rwarwarwa bacchusrx wheel m 129695800 0 --rwarwarwa bacchusrx wheel m 30081081 0 --rwarwarwa bacchusrx wheel m 36175930 0 --rwarwarwa bacchusrx wheel m 23134267 0 --rwarwarwa root wheel m 4849724 0 --rwarwarwa bacchusrx wheel m 9961533 0 --rw-rw-rw- bacchusrx wheel m 8585278 0 --rw-rw-rw- bacchusrx wheel m 121634879 0 --rwarwarwa bacchusrx wheel m 113770560 0 --rwarwarwa bacchusrx wheel m 1124401217 0 --rwarwarwa bacchusrx wheel m 1381105730 0 --rwarwarwa bacchusrx wheel m 629014595 0 --rwarwarwa root wheel Semaphores: T ID KEY MODE OWNER GROUP But that's all greek to me. What's going on? Erik. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message