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Re: SHM extension fails to start
- From: Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com, cw at gamma-rs dot ch
- Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 15:42:47 +0200 (MEST)
- Subject: Re: SHM extension fails to start
- References: <4074F645.8070708@gamma-rs.ch>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, Charles L. Werner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When XWin starts, I see the following error message in the XWin log file:
>
> MIT-SHM extension disabled due to lack of kernel support
>
> However, the ipc-deamon2 deamon has been installed:
>
> 3504 cw 8 0 13668 1924 12 S 29.6 0.0 39:56 XWin
> 560 SYSTEM 8 0 2776 3148 48 S 0.0 0.1 0:01 sshd
> 3756 SYSTEM 8 0 2188 2068 44 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 inetd
> 3744 SYSTEM 8 0 2628 2688 68 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 inetd
> 2980 cw 8 0 3060 2652 92 S 0.0 0.1 1:01 blackbox
> 1756 SYSTEM 8 0 2308 6312 4084 S 0.0 0.3 0:00 ipc-daemon2
> 3544 cw 8 0 2492 576 24 S 0.0 0.0 0:02 bash
> 464 SYSTEM 8 0 2248 2324 48 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 cygrunsrv
>
> According to the Cygwin/X users guide: this should be supported if ipc-daemon2 is running.
We have to update this.
> Attached are also the results of xdpyinfo
> Am I missing something? Will the SHM extension improve performance of the X server?
XWin now uses the cygserver support included in cygwin1.dll.
try if starting XWin works with
CYGWIN=server XWin.exe
bye
ago
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