Date: Tue, 4 Nov 1997 16:23:48 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Parker Brown <phbrown@gte.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Cleaning up wierd system messages to root Message-ID: <19971104162348.51143@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <345EAD68.262@gte.net>; from Parker Brown on Mon, Nov 03, 1997 at 09:06:48PM -0800 References: <345EAD68.262@gte.net>
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On Mon, Nov 03, 1997 at 09:06:48PM -0800, Parker Brown wrote: > This could conceivably (that doesn't look right!) be an XFree86 > question, but I don't think so. > When I bring FreeBSD up, I usually login as root on console 1, then as a > regular user on console 2 (<alt><F2>) and use the system there without > worrying about a global wipeout. Also, just to monitor the efficiency > of the system, I usually run systat -vmstat as root. Anyway, after > using startx to use X-windows as a regular user, error messages > something like "/kernel: cmd XF86-SVGA --- tried to use non-present > SYSVSHM" show up on root's screen. That blow's systat's whole screen > (ok, no biggie) but I'm enough of a perfectionist to want to know what's > wrong. SYSVSHM refers to System V Shared Memory, I guess. I think this > only happens with my reconfigured kernel, and I know of nothing that > I've omitted there. > > Please give jme some suggestions where to look so I can clean my system > up. I think it's trying to tell you that you've omitted the SYSVSHM entry in your config file. Greg
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