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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
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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