From: Gurusamy Sarathy Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1998 21:50:07 +0000 (+0000) Subject: additional INSTALL notes from Jarkko Hietaniemi X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=220f3621bb89416ac5e34c6ca96bc839e638a7cc;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git additional INSTALL notes from Jarkko Hietaniemi on semget failure in t/lib/ipc_sysv.t p4raw-id: //depot/maint-5.005/perl@1742 --- diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 8360e1d..a892e7d 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -1210,6 +1210,14 @@ V IPC may be broken. The XX typically is 20, and that is what ZZZ also should be. Consider upgrading your OS, or reconfiguring your OS to include the System V semaphores. +=item lib/ipc_sysv........semget: No space left on device + +Either your account or the whole system has run out of semaphores. Or +both. Either list the semaphores with "ipcs" and remove the unneeded +ones (which ones these are depends on your system and applications) +with "ipcrm -s SEMAPHORE_ID_HERE" or configure more semaphores to your +system. + =item Miscellaneous Some additional things that have been reported for either perl4 or perl5: @@ -1220,8 +1228,9 @@ NCR Tower 32 (OS 2.01.01) may need -W2,-Sl,2000 and #undef MKDIR. UTS may need one or more of -DCRIPPLED_CC, -K or -g, and undef LSTAT. -FreeBSD will fail the lib/ipc_sysv.t test if SysV IPC has not been -configured to the kernel. +FreeBSD can fail the lib/ipc_sysv.t test if SysV IPC has not been +configured to the kernel. Perl tries to detect this, though, and +you will get a message telling what to do. If you get syntax errors on '(', try -DCRIPPLED_CC.