From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 28 23:33:48 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA15934 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 28 Jan 1997 23:33:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA15927 for ; Tue, 28 Jan 1997 23:33:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.4/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA02955; Tue, 28 Jan 1997 23:33:30 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 23:33:30 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Jon Lido cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Shared Memory problems? In-Reply-To: <199701241841.NAA10775@goof.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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