Subject: 'shmget() failed' errors?
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 08/15/2004 23:33:14
I'm running 2.0 beta (including XFree86 4.4.0), and I sometimes get a 
string of error messages like this:

XFree86-Bigfont extension: shmget() failed, size = 790528, errno = 12
XFree86-Bigfont extension: shmget() failed, size = 110592, errno = 12
XFree86-Bigfont extension: shmget() failed, size = 118784, errno = 12
XFree86-Bigfont extension: shmget() failed, size = 790528, errno = 12
XFree86-Bigfont extension: shmget() failed, size = 110592, errno = 12
XFree86-Bigfont extension: shmget() failed, size = 118784, errno = 12
XFree86-Bigfont extension: shmget() failed, size = 110592, errno = 12
XFree86-Bigfont extension: shmget() failed, size = 110592, errno = 12
XFree86-Bigfont extension: shmget() failed, size = 122880, errno = 12
XFree86-Bigfont extension: shmget() failed, size = 110592, errno = 12
XFree86-Bigfont extension: shmget() failed, size = 110592, errno = 12
XFree86-Bigfont extension: shmget() failed, size = 118784, errno = 12

Do I need to change SHMMAXPGS?  I'm using the default value.