On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 11:53:38AM -0400, Daniel Martin wrote: > Sven LUTHER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hello, ... > > > > i am running uptodate potato (from yesterday) and when i boot using a > > linux-2.3.99-pre3 kernel, i got the following message when X is booting : > > > > Apr 4 12:56:46 lambda kernel: shmget: shm filesystem not mounted > > > > what is this, should i enable a special option in the kernel configuration > > or > > something such ? > > Shared memory (shm) in the 2.4 kernels is handled by a virtual > filesystem, so just like /proc, you need to mount it on boot by > putting something like this into /etc/fstab: > none /var/shm shm defaults 0 0 > > (Is /var/shm the right spot for this? What happens if one mounts > /var/shm and then /var?)
It won't work, I fear. Make sure you put /var higher up in the file, or in an earlier 'pass' would be my guess. Jules -- Jules Bean | Any sufficiently advanced [EMAIL PROTECTED],jellybean.co.uk} | technology is indistinguishable [EMAIL PROTECTED] | from a perl script
