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On Tue, 02 May 2000 08:15:10 GMT, andrew.carroll@cwcom.net 
<<8em2q6$bhl$1@nnrp1.deja.com>> shouted forth into the ether:
>Basically the problem is this....when I try and run certain programs
>they seem unable to create their own windows.
>If I try and run XMame I get the error :
>
>"failed to create MITSHM block"
>I'm not sure whether this is because I haven't compiled something
>correctly into the kernel (there is a lot of new stuff in there).

Wild shot in the dark:  Have you put the following line into /etc/fstab ?

none            /var/shm                  shm       exec,dev,suid,rw 0 0

ALso make sure to "mkdir /var/shm" if it doesn't exist already.  Shared
memory as used by some programs is now a filesystem.  ("EVERYthing in Unix
is a file.")  Just "mount -a"  after doing these things and things should
work better wrt X and MIT-SHM.  I think.

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