"Martin Edenhofer" wrote in message news:20030407095629.GH7844@nohl.bogen.net... | Hi Jules, | | On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 07:11:06AM -0800, jules wrote: | > otrs (1.0) was working fine for a several weeks until i had to reboot the | > machine. after the reboot the whole system is porked. every component dies | > while attempting to get the shared memory segment for Log.pm [line 60]: | > | > /home/otrs/Kernel/System/Log.pm line 60. | > | > $Self->{Key} = shmget($Self->{IPCKey}, $Self->{IPCSize}, 0777 | 0001000) | > || die $!; | > | > where does this shared memory segment get created??? | | Try to remove the shared memory segment: | | shell> ipcs | grep 4096 | 0x02a622c6 327685 wwwrun 777 4096 0 | shell> ipcrm -m 327685 | | And start otrs again. yep, you were right, although under my version of linux and bash (redhat 6.2) the command to remove the block was actually: $ ipcrm shm <id> thank you very much! i'm up and running again. do i need to take precautions when rebooting the box in the future? could it be that one of the cronjob was running when the machine was shutdown and that caused the shared memory segment to remain locked? ~j