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Old February 13th, 2012, 09:28
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Hello,

No KDE game will run on my machine.
For more information. See http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/164742

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Old February 13th, 2012, 11:31
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A workaround is described here
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Old February 13th, 2012, 15:41
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It worked. Now I hope someone finds a real solution to the problem.
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Old February 13th, 2012, 15:49
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What makes setting the kern.ipc.shm_allow_removed sysctl to 1 not a real solution?

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Old February 13th, 2012, 16:28
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Because OH speeks about a work-around and im my opinion a work around is never a real solution but a temporarily solution until a real solution is found.
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I'm still not sure why that's considered a "workaround" in the first place. It fixes the problem. Seems like a solution to me.

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Setting kern.ipc.shm_allow_removed to 1 is iirc a security risk and a performance gain. Users should be able to set it based upon their own performance / security needs, not because a game (or other piece of KDE4-software) requires it.

If you're the only user on the (desktop)-machine (which is a safe assumption if it's running games/kdegames4) the security risk is negligable.
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A real fix has just been committed (to x11-toolkits/qt4-gui). After installing you can reset your kern.ipc.shm_allow_removed.
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A real fix has just been committed (to x11-toolkits/qt4-gui). After installing you can reset your kern.ipc.shm_allow_removed.
Hello, I just installed (re-installed it) and it does not work for me. But I don't get it when you say reset your "kern.ipc.shm_allow_removed". Can you explain that a little more please. Thanks.
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Old March 13th, 2012, 19:20
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Hello, i just installed (re-installed it) and it does not work for me. But i dont get it when you say reset your "kern.ipc.shm_allow_removed".
Can you explain that a little more please. Thanks.
Please double-check you have
qt4-gui-4.7.4_1 and not
qt4-gui-4.7.4

Setting kern.ipc.shm_allow_removed to 1 one was suggested as a workaround to get the games (and astro/marble) to work (see the link in the second post in this thread).

You can check wether you are affected by this particular problem by doing the following in a terminal:
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$ su
# sysctl kern.ipc.shm_allow_removed=1
If the games then work for you, this problem is more persistent than we thought. If the games still won't work for you, then your problem is something else entirely.
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Please double-check you have
qt4-gui-4.7.4_1 and not
qt4-gui-4.7.4

Setting kern.ipc.shm_allow_removed to 1 one was suggested as a workaround to get the games (and astro/marble) to work (see the link in the second post in this thread).

You can check wether you are affected by this particular problem by doing the following in a terminal:
Code:
$ su
# sysctl kern.ipc.shm_allow_removed=1
If the games then work for you, this problem is more persistent than we thought. If the games still won't work for you, then your problem is something else entirely.

Thanks a lot, is fixed now.
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