gimp fails suddenly
Joe Marcus Clarke
marcus at marcuscom.com
Tue Dec 9 09:11:56 PST 2003
On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 10:53, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> * Doug White <dwhite at gumbysoft.com> [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 ;)
Did you install gimp from ports or packages?
Joe
>
>
>
> -Wash
>
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