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Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 16:02:21 -0500 (EST)
From: "Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke" <marcus@miami.edu>
Subject: Re: gimp dies after 2.2.6-beta upgrade
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To: Shawn Leas <sleas@mn26hp6.honeywell.com>
Cc: "Larry S. Marso" <larry@marso.com>,
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Yes, SYSVSHM is primarily used by X...it was enabled by default in the
2.2.5 GENERIC kernel, but I'm not sure about 2.2.6.  It sounds like that
is the problem, but I could be wrong.  You need to add 

options SYSVSHM 

to your kernel config file (/sys/i386/conf/<YOURKRNEL>).  Then
recompile.

Joe Clarke

On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Shawn Leas wrote:

> 
> On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Joe "Marcus" Clarke wrote:
> 
> > Sounds like you need to add
> > 
> > options SYSVSHM
> > 
> > to your kernel config file and rebuild.
> > 
> > Joe Clarke
> 
> Methinks MIT-SHM is an X thing, right?
> 
> > On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Larry S. Marso wrote:
> > 
> > > After upgrading just now to 2.2.6-beta, I now get the following error
> > > running The Gimp:
> > > 
> > > larry@second>gimp
> > > 
> > > ** WARNING **: MIT-SHM Extension not availible on server
> > > zsh: invalid system call (core dumped)  gimp
> > > 
> > > Any connection?
> > > 
> > > Best regards
> > > -- 
> > > Larry S. Marso
> > > larry@marso.com
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