As I said in my previous note, I updated the Ubuntu packages (cinelerra-ppa) so no user intervention is required. I suggest you give it a try. Regards,Nicola
> From: paulcha...@yahoo.com > Subject: Re: [CinCV] cinelerra startup error in Ubuntu 10.10 64bit > To: cinelerra@skolelinux.no > Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 05:29:49 -0800 > > Thanks, Hermann! > > I did run 'echo "0x7fffffff" > /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax' as root, but > Cinelerra crashed when I tried to edit some videos. > > > Message: 5 > Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2010 06:42:11 +0100 > From: Ichthyostega <p...@ichthyostega.de> > To: cinelerra@skolelinux.no > Subject: Re: [CinCV] cinelerra startup error in Ubuntu 10.10 64bit > Reply-To: cinelerra@skolelinux.no > > Paul Chang schrieb: > > Installed cinelerra in Ubuntu 10.10 64bit. Every time, when I tried to start > > cinelerra, I got an error message as shown in the attached screen shot. Any > > fix suggestion and work-around is highly appreciated! > > Hi Paul Chang, > > the most simple fix is right below your nose: do as Cinelerra tells you! > > | Before running Cinelerra, do the following as root > | > | echo "0x7fffffff" > /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax > > > This command tells your OS kernel to allow individual programs to use > more shared memory, which is what Cinelerra needs. > Because such a setting could be used for a denial-of-service-attack, > only the root user is allowed to do such a setting. > > Thus, at a console, you call "sudo -i" to get a "root console" > and there you can issue this command. > > > Which creates kind of a twist. Not every user is capable of running this > command. Moreover it gets annoying if you have to do it every time you boot > your > computer again. Thus, from here on there are several options to make your life > better and let Cinelerra complain less... > - put it somewhere into the system configuration, so this command is executed > at > boot automatically > - write a wrapper script to start Cinelerra > - some pre compiled packages even install such an wrapper script automatically > (if I recall correct, the "Akirad" packages do this). > > Now it's a bit difficult to help you further without knowing your skill level. > How familiar are you with unix like operating systems? Do you know how to > write a little shell script? Do you know how to handle the Unix permissions? > > Maybe someone else on the list can give more informations about a precompiled > packages (I compiled Cinelerra myself, thus I can't say much about that topic) > > Greetings, > Hermann V. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Cinelerra mailing list > Cinelerra@skolelinux.no > https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra
