Bug#381124: shmget(lowmem) error: Invalid argument

["Anibal Avelar" <debianmx@gmail.com>]

I have the real solution for this bug.  I had the same problem under
Xorg (7.1) in Debian Unstable.

The problem is not the Xserver, the problem is the Shared Memory Availaible.

With the command

ipcs -m

you can see how much shared memory you are using. If you have many
applications using shared memory the Xserver (xorg or xfree86) won't
up.

You can play with the parameters (increasing)

kernel.shmmax
kernel.shmmni
kernel.shmall

in /etc/sysctl.cnf

I don't know what are  the optimal values, depends of each system.

Regards

Fix

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