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

From: John Cavan (john.cavan@sympatico.ca)
Date: Sat Mar 11 2000 - 22:20:57 EST


Recompile the Gimp and it works fine. I don't why it fails with the new
kernel, but the recompile does solve the problem (it did for me). Go
figure.

John Cavan

Simon Kirby wrote:
>
> 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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