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From: "Artem 'Zazoobr' Ignatjev" <timon@memphis.mephi.ru>
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On Fri, 12.12.2003, at 17:36, Christoph P. Kukulies wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 05:12:31PM +0300, Artem 'Zazoobr' Ignatjev wrote:
> > I've found following advise after installing vmware3 port... 
> > That revived gimp back for me:
> > 
> > sysctl -w kern.ipc.shm_allow_removed=1
> > 
> > I've put it into sysctl.conf, and run with it.
> 
> That's fine. Just tell me, what does this actually mean? Is it practically
> the same as running gimp --no-shm ?  Or is shm activated (like a module being
> not present and the getting loaded?).
I think it's being activated... Dunno, it works for me - I pray for it
(:
quick grep thru kernel sources shows that without this kernel will
return NULL for shared memory in some cases
-- 
Artem 'Zazoobr' Ignatjev <timon@memphis.mephi.ru>