Re: Firefox won't start, fresh build and installation

[mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)]

mueller6725%twc.com@localhost ("Thomas Mueller") writes:

>I fixed /etc/fstab for the /tmpfs /var/shm line , and, without rebooting, did
>mount_tmpfs tmpfs /var/shm .

>That enabled Firefox to start but leaves me curious how Seamonkey could run without this fix.


There are multiple shared memory interfaces. Posix (shm_open), SysV
(shmget) and BSD (mmap).

Firefox uses Posix.
Seamonkey uses SysV.

Our Posix shared memory implementation uses /var/shm.