Hi. I'm running a solaris 8 system, with the installed
openwin X server, and fvwm-root is failing with a shared
memory error on my machine.
I looked into it, and it's a error returned from shmget()
somewhere in the X libraries. The X error being displayed
is:
X Error of failed request: BadAccess (attempt to access private
resource denied)
Major opcode of failed request: 131 (MIT-SHM)
Minor opcode of failed request: 1 (X_ShmAttach)
Serial number of failed request: 10
Current serial number in output stream: 11
Looking at the system calls, it appears that shmget()
is returning EINVAL when it's being called to create
a 5+ MB memory segment. In reading documentation,
I see that the "system default" maximum size for shared
memory is 1MB. I realize my fvwm-root is trying to ask for
a little over 5MB, but, doing some math, even a 1024x768
screen at 16-bit pixmap-depth will produce an X Pixmap that
is 1.5MB in size.
Perhaps there should be another way to load this? Is
this just a solaris bogosity? Can we interact with the
MIT-SHM extension directly to check on things?
- Chris
--
Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL:http://www.fvwm.org/>.
To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm-workers" in the
body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
