Hi all, I recently had to re-install my Windows 2000 Pro after my registry got corrupted and I couldn't boot at all. I was running versions of Cygwin before 1.5.25 with no problem; I'd enjoyed 3 years of Cygwin use without any issues.
Once I did the re-install, I found that Cygwin versioned up to 1.7.*; I tried 1.7.5-1. When trying to run programs (such as uni2ascii, eggdrop, pine), I ran into a slew of FORK errors. The most common was when I ran Eggdrop: 1009572 [main] eggdrop.exe-1.6.19 1824 C:\cygwin\home\Administrator\32-sb6\eggdrop.exe-1.6.19: *** fatal error - couldn't release memory 0xF04000(1032192) for 'C:\cygwin\home\Administrator\32-sb6\modules-1.6.19\blowfish.dll' alignment, Win32 error 487 1014630 [main] eggdrop 1728 fork: child 1824 - died waiting for dll loading, errno 11 I receive this about 100 times (many screen fulls) involving various DLLs (dns.dll, blowfish.dll, ...). The process does start-up ultimately; any function within those programs that calls up FORK gives me similar errors again (asking a bash script that uses uni2ascii to dump a text file).. I've even gone back to "legacy" 1.5.25, only to have the exact same results (no difference) in both DOS & Unix modes (LF vs CRLF). In all my searching, the ONLY things I could find that had anything to do with this error [that had any value to my situation] were: (1) REBASEALL via: 1. Run Cygwin’s setup.exe and install the rebase package. 2. At the Windows cmd line, run \cygwin\bin\ash 3. At the ash prompt, run /bin/rebaseall 4. If necessary, run REBASEALL a second or third time (2) descriptions found at: http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2001-04/msg00851.html Nothing I read fixes the issue at all; it keeps occuring. I've even run REBASEALL a few dozen times (literally) thanks to copy/paste. REBASE[ALL] doesn't fix the problem. Is there any information as to changes in how FORKing occurs from older Cygwin releases (presumably cygwin1.dll) to how it's currently handled? Is there a setting (perhaps in the Registry) that functions as a work-around? I've done plenty of research; I can't find the answer. Hopefully, I've met the "don't ask dumb questions, do your own homework for simple stuff" requirements and can get some help with this issue. ~ Mai Mizuno, now suffering from tired eyes, Google Hands, and split ends ----- ~ I don't use PGP; who the hell would want to impersonate ME?! ~ -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple