gimp fails suddenly

[Doug White]

On Sun, 7 Dec 2003, Viktor Vasilev wrote:

> > LibGimp-ERROR **: could not attach to gimp shared memory segment
> > Could it be a mmap or vm problem?
> >
>
> I saw the same error yesterday on FreeBSD 4.9 Release and found
> a closed PR about it. The workaround was to start gimp with the
> --no-shm option.

Well that would imply that somehow SYSVSHM got removed from your kernel.
What does 'ipcs -a' say?

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