Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 23:33:30 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Jon Lido <jlido@vt.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Shared Memory problems? Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970128233248.24983u-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <199701241841.NAA10775@goof.com>
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On Fri, 24 Jan 1997, Jon Lido wrote: > I'm having problems with The Gimp 0.54 and FreeBSD 2.1.5. They seem > related to SysV Shared Memory. > > The Gimp will run for a while, but often dies with a message like: > > gimp fatal error: shmget failed! > gimp: killing: 756: /usr/local/lib/gimp/plug-ins/tiff > > A note from the author of The Gimp makes me think that I've compiled my > kernel wrong in some way. (Of course it couldn't be the AUTHOR's fault! ;) > > I have the following option set in my kernel configuration: > > options SYSVSHM > > Which I thought was adequate to enable shared memory. Is this true? > Could it be I simply don't have enough RAM? (16 Megs) You should probably put it's two cousin options in too: options SYSVSEM options SYSVMSG That may help. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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