"Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu> writes:
> When I run 'acroread' on amd64-current, I see the following message:
>
> (acroread:3651): Gdk-WARNING **: shmget failed: error 38 (Function not
> implemented)
>
> Acroread seems to run; I'm not sure if there's some missing
> functionality or if it's just a performance issue.  Regardless, I
> assume the problem is in the linux32 emulation.

I'm guessing the shmget is happening in the X code as part of the
shared memory extension.

It is almost certainly in the linux emulation stuff -- you might want
to ktrace the process and see what system call is erroring
out. Presumably it is shmget but it would be useful to nail it down.


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