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From: geoffrey@beethoven.iavalley.cc.ia.us (geoffrey alexander)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: non-present SYSVSHM?
Date: 6 Jun 97 05:58:51 GMT
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xiang xia <xiax@public.ug.cs.sunysb.edu> writes:


>On Thu, 29 May 1997, Richard Tsai wrote:

>> Hi, 
>> 	I just installed FreeBSD 2.2.1 on my machine. I found this following
>> message under X-window often:
>> 	cmd XF86 pid 2784 tried to use non-present SYSVSHM
>> And ppp connection would be cut afterward.
>> Does anyone know what causes this? and how to fix it?

That's the System V Shared Memory option you can enable by adding a line to
the kernel config and recompiling. Check the Handbook under 'Kernerl
Configuration' for details