Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 01:04:18 -0600 (CST) From: Bruce Albrecht <bruce@zuhause.mn.org> To: Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com> Cc: smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: staroffice doesn't work with a 3.4-SMP kernel Message-ID: <14429.54514.741408.247090@celery.zuhause.org> In-Reply-To: <19991220071515.A1654@titan.klemm.gtn.com> References: <19991220071515.A1654@titan.klemm.gtn.com>
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If you want to use StarOffice (or wine) on an SMP system, you'll need
to upgrade to -current. There was some fix to the memory system
around the time 3.1 came out that disabled forking with shared memory
on an SMP system. This was eventually fixed in -current, but never
retrofitted to -stable.
Andreas Klemm writes:
> I only get staroffice installed and working, when using a single
> processor kernel. Otherwise both programs hang:
> - the staroffice installation program which does the
> user setup
> install-user:
> ${PREFIX}/Office51/bin/setup
> - staroffice itself
>
> When using the SMP kernel, I get messages in the console window,
> like that:
> shared address space fork attempted: pid: 817
> shared address space fork attempted: pid: 817
> shared address space fork attempted: pid: 817
> shared address space fork attempted: pid: 817
> shared address space fork attempted: pid: 817
> shared address space fork attempted: pid: 817
>
> When using the single processor kernel these messages doesn't show
> up and everything works.
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