Re: 2.3.51 -- I am still seeing the "shmget: shm filesystem not mounted" error

From: Simon Kirby (sim@stormix.com)
Date: Sat Mar 11 2000 - 22:00:53 EST


On Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 01:33:36PM -0500, Gregory Maxwell wrote:

> Okay, another shmfs problem perhaps?
>
> I upgraded to 2.3.51, and figured out that I had to mount shm and put the
> path in the proc file. (It's actually documented in Changes!)
>
> Now, XF86 4.0 appears to be happily using shared memory, and I'm not
> getthing any messages.. But Gimp 1.1.17 won't run: It dies when trying to
> start scriptfu with ** ERROR **: could not attach to gimp shared memory
> segment

I'm getting the same error here. Temporary workaround to get gimp to run
is to run it with shm disabled (gimp --no-shm).

Simon-

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