We are having the same issue using Cygwin 1.7.5 under Windows 7. I can not find an exact pattern but I'd estimate that the xterm windows works about 70% of the time. When we get the xterm STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION the xterm sometimes still comes up and other times no luck. When it dies completely it ends with;
[main] xterm 3376 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp before initialization, retry 0, exit code 0x100, errno 11 xterm: Error 29, errno 11: Resource temporarily unavailable Reason: spawn: fork() failed I'm still searching for a solution. If I see something, I'll post it. Jeff -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/