On 11/15/2011 11:33 AM, Jesse Ziser wrote:
On 11/11/2011 12:29 PM, Ken Brown wrote:On 11/11/2011 10:58 AM, Jesse Ziser wrote:Hello,Since attempting to upgrade from Cygwin 1.5 to 1.7, I'm having the problem that attempting to run various programs results in a slew of errors like the following: 1 [main] bash 4276 c:\cygwin\bin\bash.EXE: *** fatal error - couldn't allo cate heap, Win32 error 487, base 0x740000, top 0x970000, reserve_size 2289664, a llocsize 2293760, page_const 4096 Stack trace: Frame Function Args 0028E4EC 6102796B (0028E4EC, 00000000, 00000000, 0028E53C) 0028E7DC 6102796B (6117EC60, 00008000, 00000000, 61180977) 0028F80C 61004F1B (611B66CC, 00740000, 00970000, 0022F000) 0028F83C 6106E8C3 (7FFEFFFF, 000000FF, 00000008, 7713FE92) 0028F92C 610C133B (00000050, 02000000, 6116A724, 6116A720) 0028F95C 610064C0 (00000000, 00000002, 00000000, 753D3480) 0028FA1C 6106FC15 (61000000, 00000001, 0028FD24, 00000001) 0028FA3C 77159930 (6106F960, 61000000, 00000001, 0028FD24) 0028FB30 7715D8A9 (0028FD24, 7EFDD000, 7EFDE000, 7722206C) 0028FCB0 77172120 (0028FD24, 77120000, 70B9B815, 00000000) 0028FD00 77170BDA (0028FD24, 77120000, 00000000, 00000000) 0028FD10 77159E59 (0028FD24, 77120000, 00000000, 0001002F) End of stack trace 0 [main] bash 4768 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp before initia lization, retry 0, exit code 0x100, errno 11 bash: fork: retry: Resource temporarily unavailable I've tried all the standard solutions I could find suggested on the net, including the following: rebaseall peflagsall rebaseall -b 0x77000000 rebaseall -b 0x76000000 rebaseall -b 0x78000000 doing a reinstall all using setup.exe wiping my cygwin directory and reinstalling rebaseall -b 0x60000000 The last one was based on a blog post that suggested running SysInternals' ListDLLs.exe to see what DLLs from the BLODA might be sticking themselves into Cygwin processes. I found Sophos antivirus in all my Cygwin processes at address 6FA00000, and that's why I chose address 60000000 in my last rebaseall attempt.Your cygcheck output shows that you're not using the latest version of rebase. I suggest you try it (after reading /usr/share/doc/rebase/README), without the -b option. See also http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-11/msg00215.html for further advice about using rebase. Two other suggestions: First, you could try a Cygwin snapshot (http://www.cygwin.com/snapshots/); there have been some improvements in Cygwin's ability to deal with fork failures. Second, does uninstalling Sophos antivirus solve the problem?Tried the new version of rebase. Did not fix the problem. Tried rebase -s -i. No asterisks, so presumably no collisions. Tried uninstalling Sophos. Did not fix the problem. Tried the 2011-11-08 snapshot. Seems to fix the problem! I'm not comfortable deploying a snapshot throughout the building, though. I will roll back to 1.5 for now and wait for that snapshot to make it to a release. Thanks!
Actually, I just noticed this remark: "In summary, current Windows implementations make it impossible to implement a perfectly reliable fork, and occasional fork failures are inevitable."in winsup/doc/overview2.sgml in the source tree. Does that mean that, even with the improvements mentioned above, we cannot expect important Cygwin apps/scripts to always work reliably in a post-WinXP world? My company has been moving from Win2K/XP to Win7, so this would be important info for us.
So how serious is the above remark? I don't see anything quite that strongly-phrased in the FAQ. Maybe it should be mentioned there?
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