Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Applications aborting--any clue?

[Marcus D. Leech]

> On 04/01/2010 05:18 PM, Marcus D. Leech wrote:
>> I just got Gnu Radio installed on a Fedora 12 image on a Sheeva Plug.
>>
>> Apps start up with this error:
>
> Have you tried make check?
>
> Philip
>
>>
>> gr_vmcircbuf_mmap_shm_open: shm_open [/tmp/gnuradio-1343-0]: No such
>> file or directory
>> gr_buffer::allocate_buffer: failed to allocate buffer of size 64 KB
>> terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc'
>>    what():  std::bad_alloc
>> Aborted
>>
>>
>> But only if they're a regular user, if I run the same app as root,
>> everything is fine.
>>
>> Clues?
>>
>> I've set kernel.shmmax and kernel.shmmin in /etc/sysctl.conf, and
>> rebooted.  That makes no difference.
>>
>>
>
>
Make check failing the same way.


But I found the problem.     /dev/shm had the wrong permissions on it.

The filesystem image I picked up for this Fedora distribution is
*wonky*.   For example, 'ping' wasn't
  setuid root, so it wasn't working, etc.  Weird stuff.



-- 
Marcus Leech
Principal Investigator
Shirleys Bay Radio Astronomy Consortium
http://www.sbrac.org