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hello, I am using rh5.1 w/all patches, kernel 2.0.35, and wmaker
0.19.3... today i started receiving an error "** WARNING **: shmget
failed!" every time i access the gimp 1.0, control-panel, or wmakerconf
1.1.1.... (nothing else so far)...  does anyone have an idea of what/why
this is?  10X

I noticed that they have in common gtk+-1.0.5-1....

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kluster enlightened this group thus:

Quote:> hello, I am using rh5.1 w/all patches, kernel 2.0.35, and wmaker
> 0.19.3... today i started receiving an error "** WARNING **: shmget
> failed!" every time i access the gimp 1.0, control-panel, or wmakerconf
> 1.1.1.... (nothing else so far)...  does anyone have an idea of what/why
> this is?  10X

> I noticed that they have in common gtk+-1.0.5-1....

Aparently there are only about 128 shared memory segments that linux uses
and which do not get cleaned out when no longer needed.  You can view them
with the 'ipcs -m' command, and delete them one by one with the 'ipcrm'
command.  Better yet, you can clear them all out with this perl script:

#!/usr/bin/perl


        `ipcrm shm $IDS`;

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First of all, thanks for your help....
        Here is what I did:

$ ipcs -m

and got this:  http://home.earthlink.net/~kluster/ipcs-m_results

put your script in my ~/bin, named it "clearshared," and ran it...

$ clearshared

and got this: http://home.earthlink.net/~kluster/clearshared_results

I tried this from both X and the console....

I still get the "shmget failed!" ....   I had this b4... rebooted and
fixed it.... but I am trying to avoid rebooting... the box has been up
for a while now....

Thanks again....