Hi Dave, you did run cygcheck?
C:\>net helpmsg 6 The handle is invalid. Bye, Heribert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > -----Original Message----- > From: Dave Trollope [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 06:41 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: HELP! > > > Now its not often I scream like this, but help! > > I'm getting the following error when I run ps or any number of tools: > > m.AllocationBase 0x61000000, m.BaseAddress 0x61560000, m.RegionSize > 0x87000, m.State 0x1000 > C:\CYGWIN-MULTI\USR\LOCAL\BIN\PS.EXE: *** Couldn't reserve space for > cygwin's heap (0x61560000 <0x83A3F000>) in child, Win32 error 6 > > So how did I get to this point? Well I was building the winsup source. did > an install everything seemed fine. The code change didn't work so I tried > to revert to the official code, then the build failed because of > hundreds of undefined symbols, like _write. It seems like a library got > screwed up so I tried to make clean and rebuild from scratch. Still no > joy. > > Decided to reinstall cygwin to a new dir, downloaded base and installed. > Moved files from old installation to new making sure NOT to overwrite > anything created in the new install. Error still occurs. Rebooted to make > sure old DLL isnt resident, still happens. > > Checked Windows and Windows/System no cyg*.dlls. > > Where is the corrupted library coming from? Is there a registery entry > pointing it to the old installation or something? > > Any help would be appreciated. > Dave > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/