Add this to /etc/fstab, if you haven't already done so:
none /var/shm shm defaults 0 0
This should cause it to mount normally at start up.
John
David Walluck wrote:
>
> I already reported this. Now I'm getting a kernel panic when starting
> X. If i don't start X it seems fairly stable. It may have something to do
> with this shm stuff.
>
> On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, John Cavan wrote:
>
> > Hey guys,
> >
> > Something I wanted to point out...
> >
> > The init scripts attempt to mount the shared memory filesystem early in
> > the boot process, which defaults to /var/shm in the kernel. This is
> > great, except those of us who have our system partitioned across major
> > file structures do not have /var mounted at that stage, so of course
> > mounting /var/shm fails.
> >
> > Unless there is a specific reason for this, just allow the shared memory
> > to be loaded from /etc/fstab (which, by the way, works fine) and forget
> > about it.
> >
> > John
> >
> >
> >
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