Re: [Evolution] Broken Tasks, Calendar, and Contacts. Introduction as well

[Fernando Pereira <fpereira flipdog com>]

On 08 Feb 2001 18:05:28 -0600, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
> Christian Pearce <pearcec PacketPushers com> writes:
>
> > I couldn't even get it to run as myself so I tried another user real
> > quick.
> >
> > [root insight lpd]# cat /tmp/evolution 
> > Gdk-WARNING **: shmget failed!
> > IMLIB ERROR: SHM can't get SHM Identifier for Shared Pixmap Wrapper
> >              Falling back on Shared XImages
> > IMLIB ERROR: SHM can't get SHM Identifier for Shared XImage
> >              Falling back on XImages
> > IMLIB ERROR: SHM can't get SHM Identifier for Shared Pixmap Wrapper
> >              Falling back on Shared XImages
> > IMLIB ERROR: SHM can't get SHM Identifier for Shared XImage
> >              Falling back on XImages
> >
> > IMLIB ERROR: SHM can't get SHM Identifier for Shared Pixmap Wrapper
> >              Falling back on Shared XImages
> > IMLIB ERROR: SHM can't get SHM Identifier for Shared XImage
> >              Falling back on XImages
> > IMLIB ERROR: SHM can't get SHM Identifier for Shared Pixmap Wrapper
> >              Falling back on Shared XImages
> > IMLIB ERROR: SHM can't get SHM Identifier for Shared XImage
> >              Falling back on XImages
> >
> > [pearcec3 insight /tmp]$ evolution-calendar    
> >
> > Gdk-WARNING **: shmget failed!
> > Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> >
> > [pearcec3 insight /tmp]$ evolution-addressbook 
> > Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>
> Hmmm.  Your kernel seems to have run out of shared memory segments.
> Can you restart your X session and try again?
>
> Newer versions of GTK+ fix this problem by creatint a single big
> segment per client instead of four little ones.
>
> Things should still not crash even if shm is not available, though...

I was having this problem a while ago. Michael Rothwell suggested to
recompile my kernel with more shared segments. Solved the problem,
although it might be better to get the improved GTK+.


http://lists.helixcode.com/archives/public/evolution/2001-January/005074.html

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