Re: gimp fails suddenly

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.

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