On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 01:47:37PM +0100, Jens Ansorg wrote: > I went through the arcive bu tcould not find something useful for this > issue: > > Running Kernel 2.2.17 with RedHat 6.2 and XFree 4.0.1 I get those "shmget > failed" messages whenever I run a gtk/gnome app. > > Now even worse: some apps couse this error: > "XFree86-Bigfont extension: shmget() failed, size = 122880, errno = 28" > > I get lots of lines of this one. > > probably related are errors/warnings about shared pixmaps not loading, i.e > when I open a menu and move the mouse down along the menu entries I get > those (imlib?) pixmaps errors for every menu entry the mouse scrolls over. > Same with toolbars ... > > Is this shmget related with a kernel module shm.o ? > this module is there for my kernel but it refuses to load > (unresolved symbols) No. SysV shared memory is part of the "System V IPC" option, and it can't be compiled as a kernel module. All kernels provided by distributions have this enabled, AFAIK. What is the value of /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax ? Try to set this to a large value (like 32MB) with: echo 33554432 > /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax If you compiled your own kernel, be sure that you enabled SysV IPC. Erik [currently employed as kernel hacker, so that's why you don't see me that often on this list] -- J.A.K. (Erik) Mouw, Information and Communication Theory Group, Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Information Technology and Systems, Delft University of Technology, PO BOX 5031, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands Phone: +31-15-2783635 Fax: +31-15-2781843 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www-ict.its.tudelft.nl/~erik/ _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
