gimp fails suddenly

[Christoph P. Kukulies]

On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 01:25:58PM -0800, Doug White wrote:
> 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?

It shows

Messages queues:

...entries...

Shared Memory:

...entries...

It *is* there, I'm using GENERIC and unless it hasn't been removed from
GENERIC I oughta have it.

Something seems to be broken with shm.

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Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku_at_physik.rwth-aachen.de