Hello, "Brian Conway" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 23, 2025, at 9:21 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > Dear list, > > > > > > after upgrading to OpenBSD 7.8 I seem to be unable > > to launch x11vnc on it, the last lines it spits are > > > > 23/10/2025 16:15:05 shmget(scanline) failed. > > 23/10/2025 16:15:05 shmget: No space left on device > > > > and I do not understand what they mean (ie., on what > > device there is no space?). > > > > Please, has anybody seen the same? What could be > > the reason / solution? > > I run x11vnc and have not noticed any issues moving from 7.7 to 7.8, but in > this case it may be because I am using the '-noshm' flag. For reference, I > use the following as my full set of flags, mostly taken from the pkg README > with a couple others added over time: > > x11vnc_flags=-localhost -logfile /var/log/x11vnc -ncache 0 -forever -loop100 > -auth guess -rfbauth /etc/x11vncpasswd -nevershared -display :0 -noshm >
the -noshm option made my connection work again. Thanks! So there must be something about going from OpenBSD 7.7 to 7.8 that breaks the MIT-shm polling (whatever that is). Thanks. Ruda
