From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 9 07:53:27 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A05A16A4CE for ; Tue, 9 Dec 2003 07:53:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns2.wananchi.com (ns2.wananchi.com [62.8.64.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33BC143D21 for ; Tue, 9 Dec 2003 07:53:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wash@wananchi.com) Received: from wash by ns2.wananchi.com with local (Exim 4.24 #1 (FreeBSD 4.9)) id 1ATkAo-0006vi-86 by authid ; Tue, 09 Dec 2003 18:53:18 +0300 Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 18:53:18 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington To: Doug White Message-ID: <20031209155318.GA12820@ns2.wananchi.com> References: <200312070945.hB79jKds039814@www.kukulies.org> <20031207113607.GB301@rbg.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de> <20031207215711.GC301@rbg.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de> <20031208115608.F15361@carver.gumbysoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031208115608.F15361@carver.gumbysoft.com> X-Disclaimer: Any views expressed in this message,where not explicitly attributed otherwise, are mine alone!. X-Mailer: Mutt 1.5.4i (2003-03-19) X-Designation: Systems Administrator, Wananchi Online Ltd. X-Location: Nairobi, KE, East Africa. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org cc: Viktor Vasilev Subject: Re: gimp fails suddenly X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2003 15:53:27 -0000 * Doug White [20031208 23:27]: wrote: > On Sun, 7 Dec 2003, Viktor Vasilev wrote: > > > > Well that would imply that somehow SYSVSHM got removed from your kernel. > > > What does 'ipcs -a' say? > > > > Actually the kernel is compiled with the SYSVSHM option. IIRC gimp was > > installed with pkg_add -r. > > ok. > > > Shared Memory: > > T ID KEY MODE OWNER GROUP CREATOR CGROUP NATTCH SEGSZ CPID LPID ATIME DTIME CTIME > > m 196608 0 --rw-r--r-- root myuser root myuser 7 151552 228 22821:49:32 21:49:32 12:14:10 > > m 65537 0 --rw-r--r-- root myuser root myuser 6 122880 228 104221:29:46 21:29:46 12:14:10 > > m 65538 0 --rw------- myuser myuser myuser myuser 2 393216 255 22812:15:18 22:35:00 12:15:18 > > m 65539 0 --rw-r--r-- root myuser root myuser 2 790528 228 29812:15:54 12:15:54 12:15:54 > > m 393220 0 --rw-r--r-- root myuser root myuser 2 110592 228 35412:21:49 15:32:20 12:21:49 > > m 262149 0 --rw-r--r-- root myuser root myuser 4 110592 228 35412:21:49 15:32:20 12:21:49 > > hm... I think we have a winner. FreeBSD, by default, only allocates 32MB > max to shm segments. You have a bunch already loaded and gimp wants 7MB > more, and thats probably putting you over the limit. It returns EINVAL if > there isn't enough space available. > > > shminfo: > > shmmax: 33554432 (max shared memory segment size) > > shmmin: 1 (min shared memory segment size) > > shmmni: 192 (max number of shared memory identifiers) > > shmseg: 128 (max shared memory segments per process) > > shmall: 8192 (max amount of shared memory in pages) > > You probably need to add > > kern.ipc.shmmax="67108864" > > to /boot/loader.conf, then reboot your system. This should give you ~64MB > of shm space. My sysctl -a gives: kern.ipc.shmmax: 268435456 and I have the same problem ;) -Wash http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html -- +======================================================================+ |\ _,,,---,,_ | Odhiambo Washington Zzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ | Wananchi Online Ltd. www.wananchi.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-'| Tel: +254 20 313985-9 +254 20 313922 '---''(_/--' `-'\_) | GSM: +254 722 743223 +254 733 744121 +======================================================================+ How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers.