2.3.31 - shm broken on Alpha ?

Dave Gilbert (gilbertd@treblig.org)
Sat, 11 Dec 1999 20:15:10 +0000 (GMT)


Hi,
I've just built 2.3.31 on my Alpha (LX164/21164A) and while it mostly
works fine I believe I'm having problems associated with the Sys V IPC
shared memory (which before anyone asks is compiled in!).

The problems are showing up as some X programs aborting; in particular I
can't run any Gnome applications without --no-xshm (in which case they
work fine), but I've tried one or two other applications which use XSHM
and they also appear to have the problem; programs which do not use it are
fine.

I'm running XFree 3.916 on a 3DFx Voodoo 3 (Its actually the XFree
version off 3DFx's site). This works fine with 2.2.13; I can't try a
range of 2.3.x's because most other versions have PCI brokednesses on this
machine.

The error from Gnome apps is:

Gdk-ERROR **: BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied)
serial 111 error_code 10 request_code 129 minor_code 3

aborting...

A diff of the /proc/sysvipc/shm before and after the gnome app was run
reveals differences like:

key shmid perms size cpid lpid nattch uid gid cuid cgid
atime dtime ctime
0 37158914 777 262144 15725 15558 0 9031 800 9031 800
944942965 944942966 944942965

Two things I can notice which are odd about this (but I haven't gone back
to a previous version to look):
1) The shmid is a great big hairy number.
2) The perms are rather open!

Tracing through the Gnome error appears to come from Imlib just before one
of the XShm calls.

Ideas?

Dave

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