Solaris 8 (sparc) + Netscape 7 + flashplayer 6 error

Kevin

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Feb 2, 2004, 11:49:36 PM2/2/04

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I'm trying to get Solaris 8 and flash-player 6 to play nicely with
Netscape 7. I've set the netscape script to debug, and when I open up a
certain page with flash navigation buttons, Netscape crashes with the
following:

X Error of failed request: BadShmSeg (invalid shared segment parameter)
Major Opcode of failed request: 131 (MIT-SHM)
Minor opcode of failed request: 2 (X_ShmDetach)
Segment id in failed request: 0x33343222
Serial Number of failed request: 136
Current serial number in output stream: 152

This is a repeatable error, on Ultra 60s, Ultra 1s, and Blade workstations
running Solaris 8.

Any suggestions? I was thinking an /etc/system entry for shmseg, but I'm
thinking this might be more of a incompatibility between the software than
anything else.

Thanks,

Kevin

Rich Teer

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Feb 3, 2004, 12:37:05 AM2/3/04

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On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Kevin wrote:

> I'm trying to get Solaris 8 and flash-player 6 to play nicely with
> Netscape 7. I've set the netscape script to debug, and when I open up a
> certain page with flash navigation buttons, Netscape crashes with the
> following:

What URL? I'd be interested to see if I can duplicate this...

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Kevin

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Feb 3, 2004, 1:10:16 AM2/3/04

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On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 05:37:05 +0000, Rich Teer wrote:

> On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Kevin wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to get Solaris 8 and flash-player 6 to play nicely with
>> Netscape 7. I've set the netscape script to debug, and when I open up a
>> certain page with flash navigation buttons, Netscape crashes with the
>> following:
>
> What URL? I'd be interested to see if I can duplicate this...

Sorry, unfortunately it's a URL on our internal corporate network. I also
forgot to mention - yes, I've installed the documented patch sets and the
latest Solaris 8 patches.

Thanks,

Kevin

Juergen Keil

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Feb 3, 2004, 6:46:23 AM2/3/04

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Kevin <wick...@hotmail.com> writes:

> when I open up a
> certain page with flash navigation buttons, Netscape crashes with the
> following:
>
> X Error of failed request: BadShmSeg (invalid shared segment parameter)
> Major Opcode of failed request: 131 (MIT-SHM)
> Minor opcode of failed request: 2 (X_ShmDetach)
> Segment id in failed request: 0x33343222
> Serial Number of failed request: 136
> Current serial number in output stream: 152

> I was thinking an /etc/system entry for shmseg ...

The limits for SYSV shared memory regions are quite low on Solaris 8.
Maybe the X server has reached the max number of attached shared
memory segments and is failing MIT-SHM requests?

What is "sysdef" reporting in the "IPC Shared Memory" section?

I think the GNOME desktop suffers from the same problem and it's
installer modifies /etc/system, adding something like the following
to work around this problem:

set shmsys:shminfo_shmmax = 0x2000000
set shmsys:shminfo_shmmni = 0x1000
set shmsys:shminfo_shmseg = 0x100

Kevin

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Feb 3, 2004, 8:53:21 PM2/3/04

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On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 12:46:23 +0100, Juergen Keil wrote:

> The limits for SYSV shared memory regions are quite low on Solaris 8.
> Maybe the X server has reached the max number of attached shared
> memory segments and is failing MIT-SHM requests?
>
> What is "sysdef" reporting in the "IPC Shared Memory" section?

I forgot to write this down before I left work, but you're correct, it was
a relatively small number. It was either 6 or 8.

Kevin

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Feb 4, 2004, 11:44:41 PM2/4/04

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On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 12:46:23 +0100, Juergen Keil wrote:

>
> set shmsys:shminfo_shmmax = 0x2000000
> set shmsys:shminfo_shmmni = 0x1000
> set shmsys:shminfo_shmseg = 0x100

Adding these did the trick, thanks!

Kevin