On 8/20/2010 11:34 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > On 8/20/2010 11:28 AM, Baldur Gislason wrote: >> Hi, I recently installed the latest version of cygwin after using >> previous >> (1.5) versions without problems. Almost nothing works on 1.7 and even >> after >> reinstalling my machine >> I still have the same problem. My machine runs Windows XP SP2. >> My install.log.full has a lot of errors like this one: >> 3879146 [main] bash 3716 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp before >> initialization, retry 0, exit code 0x100, errno 11 >> 4 [main] bash 3872 C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe: *** fatal error - couldn't >> allocate heap, Win32 error 487, base 0x6D0000, top 0x740000, reserve_size >> 454656, allocsize 458752, page_const 4096 >> This doesn't only happen with bash, it was also happening with other apps >> such as rsync before I reinstalled the operating system. Any ideas or >> hints >> for diagnosing this? Can I acquire an older setup.exe and try >> installing a >> previous version of cygwin? Full log is at >> http://foo.is/~baldur/setup.log.full.gz > > If you look in the email archives for messages with similar complaints, > you'll find that this kind of problem is most commonly the result of one > of two things: > > 1. You need to install the rebase package, read its README, and run > rebaseall as prescribed. > > 2. <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#BLODA> > Supplementary: what do you do when rebaseall fails to work? I've tried to post my cygcheck output a couple of times, but perhaps gmane has volume limits. Guess I could use e-mail ...
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