Subject: Re: shared memory problem?
To: Todd Vierling <tv@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Tim Rightnour <root@garbled.net>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 04/11/1998 09:30:28
On 11-Apr-98 Todd Vierling spoke unto us all:
# On Sat, 11 Apr 1998, Nathan Gelbard wrote:
#
# : Error: cannot get shared memory.
# : Received signal 11 (Segmentation fault).
#
# Hm. Do you have "options SYSVSHM" in your kernel? I'm not sure that this
# is what it wants, but "shared memory" either implies that or mmap(), and
# mmap() can't be turned off... :)
#
He is referring to MIT shared memory for X. It should not be behaving like
this unless your X server isn't compiled with MITSHM configured. Are you
running the NetBSD supplied XFree?
It's also possible there is a bug in the program...
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Tim Rightnour - root@garbled.net
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