From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 6 Jan 2001 06:26:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 6 Jan 2001 06:26:02 -0500 Received: from colorfullife.com ([216.156.138.34]:5130 "EHLO colorfullife.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 6 Jan 2001 06:26:00 -0500 Message-ID: <3A5700C4.2A6D867B@colorfullife.com> Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2001 12:25:56 +0100 From: Manfred X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.0 i686) X-Accept-Language: en, de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ik5pvx@penny.ik5pvx.ampr.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.4.0: apache doesn't start Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I found this in another mail: Kevin Fenzi wrote: > Duh. > > I figured out the problem. In 2.4.0-test13-pre3 is the introduction of > the shmall sysctl. I had installed a package called powertweak a while > back. It looks like powertweak sets any sysctl it doesn't know to 0. > > So, the problem was that there was no shared memory for X. ;( > > I set that up to a reasonable level and all is well. > > sorry for the wild goose chase. :( > > kevin > - Could you check your /proc/sys/kernel/shmall value? If 2.4 is really incompatible with powertweak, perhaps a warning should be added to the release notes. -- Manfred - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/