On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 11:53:33AM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >On 4/8/2013 11:44 AM, rodmed...@cantv.net wrote: >> Hi, >> Suddenly "bash --login" started giving the follwin message: >> >> $ bash --login >> 1 [main] bash 4084 C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe: *** fatal error - prefork: >> couldn't create pipe process trackerWin32 error 161 >> $ >> >> Appart from that I do not see anything unusual. > >Have you looked at this FAQ? > ><http://cygwin.com/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.fixing-fork-failures>
Actually, in this case, Error 161 is ERROR_BAD_PATHNAME. If the OP is getting that from an attempt to create a pipe then something is messed up on their system. Most likely it's BLODA: http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#BLODA 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
