On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 04:15:54PM +0100, Andy Koppe wrote: >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.
I'd start out with chickens and move up to goats only as a last resort. >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? Right. rebaseall is the right way to deal with these issue which, coincidentally enough, would have absolutely nothing to do with an "incomplete download". cgf -- 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
