Hi there,

On 13 Jul 2003, Peter Celella wrote:

> when I try to run any dos program, dosemu immediately closes and I
> get the following error message in the terminal:
> 
> ERROR: MAPPING: cannot get IPC shared mem (Invalid argument)
>  
> This may have the following reasons:
> - you do not have IPC configured into the kernel
> - the limits are to low for the amount of memory you requested
>   in /etc/dosemu.conf. In this case either decrease the XMS/EMS/DPMI
>   amount in /etc/dosemu.conf or increase the kernel limits such as
>   'echo 67108864 >/proc/sys/kernel/shmmax'
[snip]
> Any ideas?

Well there are a couple in the error message...

Have you checked that you have IPC configured in the kernel?  Have you
checked that it is in fact /etc/dosemu.conf which is being used (error
messages are not always trustworthy in my experience:), and that the
amount of memory requested in there is reasonable?  Have you checked
the amount of memory available?

73,
Ged.

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