I'm running a Dell XPS (single core 3GHz processor) with WinXP SP3 with latest
patches. My system has 4GB memory installed and 20GB free disk space
available.
I had 1.5 installed and working well. I tried to upgrade to 1.7 and received
many errors and could not complete the installation because the installation
appeared to stop working. I rebooted several times and retried the update
each time with no success. I manually removed all cygwin files and cleaned
the registry. I tried downloading the setup and reinstalling the base 1.7
release. Everything goes find until I get to the /etc/postinstall/000-cygwin-
post-install.sh step and the progress bars stop showing any progress (i.e.
appear to stop working).
I went to c:\cygwin\var\log\setup.log.postinstallXa01348 and looked at this
file. It contains:
5 [main] bash 508 C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe: *** fatal error - couldn't
allocate heap, Win32 error 487, base 0x6D0000, top 0x730000, reserve_size
389120, allocsize 393216, page_const 4096
5 [main] bash 2216 child_info::sync: wait failed, pid 508, Win32 error 0
909 [main] bash 2216 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp before
initialization, retry 0, exit code 0x1000000, errno 11
I have no choice but to cancel the install and retry; but it never completes
and always fails at the same point. Does anyone know what this means and how
to fix the problem? If it's something stupid I've done; please point out the
issue.
Sincerely,
Brian S. Wilson
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