On 26 June 2010 13:43, Brian Wilson wrote: > 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.
Sacrificing a goat might help as well. Then again, it might not. Have you tried 'rebaseall' and checked your system against the Big List Of Dodgy Apps at http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda? Andy -- 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
