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Re: Need help with cdrecord



On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 09:30:48AM -0800, Hausheer, Geoffrey wrote:
 
> I am having trouble with cdrecord on my laptop.  I installed 2.3.99-pre3
> (needed to get my USB CDRW to work), and got the drive working okay (an read
> from it).  When I try to record to it, however, I get:
> 
> shmget: shm filesystem not mounted
> cdrecord: Invalid argument. shmget failed

Yes. So let's mount the shm filesystem. Help might be found by selecting
help on CONFIG_SYSVIPC in the kernel config. CONFIG_SYSVPCI must be <Y>es.

root:~# mkdir /var/shm

and add a line to /etc/fstab:

root:~# echo >>/etc/fstab "none  /var/shm  shm  defaults  0 0"

-- 
Bye,
Dietmar


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