According to Hans de Hartog:
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>I've built xmms (and all its prerequisites...).
>When I start it, it says (on stdout):
>	Gdk-WARNING **: shmget failed!

what does xdpyinfo say?  do you see a line with "MIT-SHM" in the
extensions list?  also what does the ipcs command tell you?

My guess is that you do not have the SYSV IPC compiled in the kernel
_or_ you are trying to remote display the application to another X
display in which case shared memory will not work (I think)

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Brett Lymn, Computer Systems Administrator, BAE SYSTEMS
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