gimp fails suddenly

[Artem 'Zazoobr' Ignatjev]

On su, 07.12.2003, at 12:45, C. Kukulies wrote:
> I cvsuped and built, installed world and kernel without a hitch
> also did a port make index, portupgrade -aFrR. 
> 
> But when starting gimp this morning, I get:
> 
>  gimp
> 
> LibGimp-ERROR **: could not attach to gimp shared memory segment
> 
> aborting...
> 
> LibGimp-WARNING **: gimp: wire_read: unexpected EOF
> gimp: Plug-In crashed: "script-fu"
> (/usr/X11R6/libexec/gimp/1.2/plug-ins/script-fu)
> 
> The dying Plug-In may have messed up GIMP's internal state.
> You may want to save your images and restart GIMP
> to be on the safe side.
> 
> -----
> 
> Could it be a mmap or vm problem?
I've found following advise after installing vmware3 port... 
That revived gimp back for me:

sysctl -w kern.ipc.shm_allow_removed=1

I've put it into sysctl.conf, and run with it.


-- 
Artem 'Zazoobr' Ignatjev <timon at memphis.mephi.ru>