shared memory borked?

[Kenneth Culver]

> I admit, my DF is from thursday and I need to update it to the work that
> has taken place during the weekend, but nonetheless I wanted to report
> it here.
>
> Mozilla 1.5, compiled wednesday on the FreeBSD-STABLE 4.8 of that same
> day is now giving me:
>
> Gdk-WARNING **: shmget failed: error 2 (No such file or directory)
>
> I've also seen that while running window maker, wrlib reports it
> couldn't allocate a shared memory segment.
>
> Recompilation of glib and gtk doesn't solve anything.
>
> I'll try a new kernel tonight.
>
> Anyone else seeing this?
>
It's possible that you just don't have enough shm set aside in the kernel.
Try setting these:

kern.ipc.shmmax
kern.ipc.shmall
kern.ipc.shmseg

I'm not sure if you really need kern.ipc.shmall, but basically just set
these to some higher number than they are right now.

Ken