Re: Xserver and linux-2.3.99-pre3
On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 11:53:38AM -0400, Daniel Martin wrote:
> Sven LUTHER <luther@debian.org> writes:
>
> > Hello, ...
> >
> > i am running uptodate potato (from yesterday) and when i boot using a
> > linux-2.3.99-pre3 kernel, i got the following message when X is booting :
> >
> > Apr 4 12:56:46 lambda kernel: shmget: shm filesystem not mounted
> >
> > what is this, should i enable a special option in the kernel configuration or
> > something such ?
>
> Shared memory (shm) in the 2.4 kernels is handled by a virtual
> filesystem, so just like /proc, you need to mount it on boot by
> putting something like this into /etc/fstab:
> none /var/shm shm defaults 0 0
>
> (Is /var/shm the right spot for this? What happens if one mounts
> /var/shm and then /var?)
It won't work, I fear. Make sure you put /var higher up in the file,
or in an earlier 'pass' would be my guess.
Jules
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