By any chance, when you start a Cygwin shell do you occasionally get errors like "4 [main] bash 15592 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 is an error I've run into several times and it often causes problems with setup updates.
The best advise I can offer is to try opening 20 or 30 shells at a time, several times, then close the windows until you don't get a lot of these errors. Then, quickly, run the setup script again. It doesn't hurt to keep opening and closing a few shell windows while the setup is running. You can also try the solution in the thread "1.7.1-1 Install freeze of Cygwin post install.sh" which is a little drastic; but sometimes rebooting will reduce the frequency of this error occuring. This error has been reported on several threads previously, however I've never seen a good solution. Sincerely, Brian S. Wilson =================================================================== Home: (678) 376-9258 Cell: (678) 232-9357 wil...@ds.net =================================================================== ---------- Original Message ----------- From: Gregg Levine <gregg.drw...@gmail.com> To: cygwin@cygwin.com Sent: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 04:03:20 -0400 Subject: Re: Incomplete downloads reported across several mirrors > On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Dan Platt <> wrote: > > <cygwin.somos <at> xoxy.net> writes: > > > >> > >> I might suggest someone checking if their hard drive happens to be > >> full or nearly so. > >> > >> > > > > I'm having the same problem since Tuesday - plenty of disk space for it. > > > > > > -- > > 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 > > > > > Hello! > Well folks its now 4AM EDT on the Saturday since this problem has > started. My update routines all ended up the same way. However it > seems the program did indeed succeed in retrieving everything after > all. > > The question as to why it is happening still remains. > > ----- > Gregg C Levine gregg.drw...@gmail.com > "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again." > > -- > 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 ------- End of Original Message ------- -- 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
