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From: dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie (David Malone)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Gimp and X11 error: SYSVSHM non-present
Date: 14 Jul 1997 15:02:24 +0100
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Ward Bones <ward@zipco.net> writes:

>I see the message whenever I kill the x-server also.  I've searched for
>docs regarding SYSVSHM everywhere from my FreeBSD handbook to XFree86.

>Have any of you had the same problem and found a solution?

SYSVSHM is a kernel option that you choose when compiling the
kernel. It doesn't seem to be in the generic kernel.

	David.