On Jun 15 07:11, roadworrier wrote: > > I saw this problem "spawn_guts: CreateDesktop failed, Win32 error 8" listed > in many Google results with some suggestions but without any conclusive > solutions. > > My 2003 Server has 16gb of RAM, and only about 10gb were in use, so the > issue wasn't a lack of RAM. However, I went and quit some programs that use > many USER and GDI objects (Photoshop, Illustrator, TOAD (and Parallels for > good measure)) and then I was able to ssh in to my server without making any > changes to cygwin configuration, and without restarting sshd or anything. > > - Stefan > > > > Carsten.Porzler wrote: > > > > Dear Cygwin community, > > > > unfortunately we got on some of our Windows 2003 servers this error > > message while logging on by using OpenSSH > > > > 5791 [main] sshd 9288! spawn_guts: CreateDesktop failed, Win32 error 8 > > > > This error message occurs after the server has been rebooted. > > > > If log on once at the Windows console as a user with local admin > > privileges, also the SSH logon works again. > > > > We are using Cygwin CYGWIN_NT-5.2 d20of001 1.7.0(0.200/5/3) 2009-02-20 > > 17:20 i686 Cygwin and OpenSSH 5.1. > > > > Does anybody know the reason for this failure?
That's probably related to the maximum size of the system heap. Have a look into the "Remarks" section in the MSDN man page of CreateDesktop: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms682124%28VS.85%29.aspx It explains the registry setting which can be changed to raise the system heap size. For services the third value of the SharedSection option is relevant. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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
