Thanks to everyone who suggested I increase the amount of shared memory on my SPARC so Gimp would not disable shared memory tile transport. I added this to /etc/system: set shmsys:shminfo_shmseg=64 after a reboot Gimp worked fine. David Kirkby > "Dr. David Kirkby" <davek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > Hi, > today I compiled gimp-1.1.26 on my Sun SPARC 20 (4 x 125 MHz CPUs, 448 Mb RAM, > Solaris 8), using Perl v5.6.0, gtkxmhtml-0.99.8, gtk+-1.2.8, PDL-2.1.1snap092100, > zlib-1.1.3). I have removed any libraries/headers of older gimp versions, but I get the > following error message during startup. > > Gdk-WARNING **: shmat failed! > gimp: shmat() failed: Disabling shared memory tile transport. > -- Dr. David Kirkby Ph.D, Senior Research Fellow, Department of Medical Physics, University College London, 11-20 Capper St, London, WC1E 6JA. Tel: 020 7209 6406 Fax: 020 7209 6269 email: davek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx web page: http://www.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/~davek Amateur radio callsign: G8WRB
