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avast

Asked by John Kelly

Hi
having successfully installed avast and did scans successfully and did updates and it finished and closed.
Then to Applications accessories and selected avast and the box appeared to put in licence key w
hich i did but another box appeared something engine invalid arguement.

thanks
John

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#1

Please refer http://www.avast.com/community-and-support

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John Kelly (lioganach) said : 		#2

On 08/08/10 00:15, marcobra (Marco Braida) wrote:
> Your question #120337 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/120337
>
> marcobra (Marco Braida) posted a new comment:
> Please refer http://www.avast.com/community-and-support
>
>
>
 Thank you very much!
I found a terminal command that caused it to run again.So far so good.
John

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John Kelly (lioganach) said : 		#3

Hi
I select avast and it says ...,error in avast engine invalid arguement
I search for terminal command solution in forums again and it runs ok but should I have to do this when I want to do a scan!?

The terminalcommand that worked is aS FOLLOWS

sudo sysctl -w kernel.shmmax=128000000
kernel.shmmax = 128000000

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#4

So please close this question mark it as solved... visit the question link with a browser to do it...

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John Kelly (lioganach) said : 		#5

Question not answered in my previous post is there a way that I dont always have to reenter...
sudo sysctl -w kernel.shmmax=128000000
kernel.shmmax = 128000000

to get avast starting normally!?

see previous post
thanks for your patience!?
John

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Best marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#6

To have this settings permanent you must write them to /etc/sysctl.conf file

So please open a terminal and type:

gksudo gedit /etc/sysctl.conf

Add this row:

kernel.shmmax = 128000000

save and exit

then reboot your pc

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John Kelly (lioganach) said : 		#7

thank you for your brilliant patient help!!
John