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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!pumpkin.pangea.ca!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-feed1.tiac.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!news.he.net!cnn.nas.nasa.gov!not-for-mail From: Hugh LaMaster <lamaster@nas.nasa.gov> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Gimp and X11 error: SYSVSHM non-present Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 10:06:43 -0700 Organization: NASA Ames Research Center Lines: 39 Message-ID: <33CA5CA3.446B@nas.nasa.gov> References: <33C9A8E2.2781E494@zipco.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: win144.nas.nasa.gov Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; U; IRIX 6.2 IP22) To: Ward Bones <ward@zipco.net> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:44420 Ward Bones wrote: > cmd gimp pid 1106 tried to use non-present SYSVSHM FWIW, the following options in the /usr/src/sys/i386/conf file to build a new kernel work for me. Note that I have it configured for the Mbone tool "vic", which for some reason opens a new shared-memory segment for every video stream (on other systems I have used, all "vic" shared- memory accesses to the X11 server use a single shared-memory segment). According to the man pages, you may want to bump up SHMMAXPGS to 4096 for "gimp" (which I have heard of, but have not tried). options SYSVSHM #Shared memory enable - very important options SHMALL=1025 options "SHMMAXPGS=1025" # 4Mbytes sharable memory options "SHMMAX=(SHMMAXPGS*PAGE_SIZE+1)" options SHMMIN=2 options SHMMNI=33 options SHMSEG=33 # Was "9" in "LINT" - more for vic options SYSVSEM # enable for semaphores options SYSVMSG # enable for messaging -- Hugh LaMaster, M/S 258-5, ASCII Email: hlamaster@mail.arc.nasa.gov NASA Ames Research Center Or: lamaster@nas.nasa.gov Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000 No Junkmail: USC 18 section 2701 Phone: 415/604-1056 Disclaimer: Unofficial, personal *opinion*.