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Re: Urgently need help for web-server changes in Debian stable



On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 10:07:31PM +0000, C-Cose Masters wrote:
> I'm sudeenly experiencing ~severe~ difficulties with my apache
> installation. Briefly, the following message is recourded in the logs
> whenever I attempt to start apache:
> 
> 
> [Wed Apr  9 17:19:43 2003] [emerg] (22)Invalid argument: could not call shmget

Is /var/shm mounted?

  $ mount
  shm on /var/shm type shm (rw)

> As a solution to my problem, I attempted to build Apache v1.3.27 directly
> from the Apache website, but continue to get the above cited error.
> Checking through the Debian package listing (at the website), "shmget" is
> listed as a file in the "dist" and "selinux" packages:
> 
> http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?word=shmget&searchmode=searchfiles&case=insensitive&version=stable&arch=i386
> 
> I responded by installing the dist package, but have yet to install the
> "selinux" package, as I am unaware of having or ~needing~ this before.
> Frankly, this seems unnessarily confusing and bad behaviour on the part of
> the package maintainer(s).

No, I very much doubt that the selinux package has anything to do with
this. The presence of that file is just coincidence.

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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