Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 13 Mar 2000 10:02:33 +0100 | | From | David Odin <> | | Subject | Re: 2.3.51 -- I am still seeing the"shmget: shm filesystem not mounted" error |
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On Sun, Mar 12, 2000 at 03:32:56PM -0800, Miles Lane wrote: > > Alan Cox wrote: > > <snip> > > > its a very rare problem, lts make it happen every day. > > > > > > Gimp wont be the only thing that breaks. So the old behaviour needs > > > > to work at least for SYS5 IPC, what posix ipc does is another matter > > > > > > I propose we wait and see what else breaks. > > > > Simple answer #1: doom, many apps using Gtk + shared memory pixmaps. > > Basically it broke an established standardised API that we share with > > SYS5.4, *BSD and almost everyone else. > > Another example of stuff breaking on my system: *** Netscape *** > > I run Netscape Messenger 4.72. When I open a message, I get this error: > > XF86BigfontQueryFont: could not attach shm segment. > > NOTE: I am running XFree86 3.9.18. I have not recompiled XFree86 > since installing kernel 2.3.51. Not sure if this matters. >
Have you mounted the shm filesystem? If not, add this line to fstab: none /var/shm shm defaults 0 0 and mount /var/shm,
This should solve all your problems with shm and 2.3.5x (it did for me...)
Regards,
DindinX
-- David.Odin@bigfoot.com Author of the French Book: Programmation Linux avec GTK+
The day-to-day travails of the IBM programmer are so amusing to most of us who are fortunate enough never to have been one -- like watching Charlie Chaplin trying to cook a shoe.
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