On 05/27/2015 05:54 PM, Marco Atzeri wrote: > > > On 5/27/2015 11:16 PM, Gerry Reno wrote: >> I've been struggling with this fork:retry issue for over a month and have >> yet to find a working solution. >> >> The machines are Windows 7 64-bit with Cygwin 32-bit installation. > > what about testing a 64bit cygwin installation ? Can't do that unfortunately. We still have a mix of 32 bit and 64 bit machines and everything has to run on both. Hoping this year to get rid of the last of our old 32-bit stuff but we're not there yet.
> >> I run Setup and then install some bash scripts for the user. >> Only some of the machines appear to be having this fork:retry problem. >> And even reinstalling Cygwin does not appear to fix the problem. >> >> Error: >> >> /etc/profile: fork: retry: Resource temporarily unavailable >> 1 [main] bash 3236 child_info_fork::abort: >> C:\Cygwin\bin\cyggcc_s-1.dll: loaded to different address: >> parent(0x370000) != child(0x2B0000) > > this two addresses are very low. On my machine > > $ rebase -si |grep cyggcc_s > /usr/bin/cyggcc_s-1.dll base 0x5dc90000 size > 0x00022000 > > So I suspect a BLODA is interfering with your cygwin installation. The only thing I see from the list is BitDefender which these laptops have installed. > > with > less /proc/self/maps > > you can have an idea of which dll are loaded > >> >> I've tried completely eliminating every trace of Cygwin I can find on the >> machine and then reinstalling Cygwin but the >> error persists. >> I've tried the rebaseall commands listed in a number of posts. Again, the >> error persists. >> >> What's interesting is that if I try rebooting one of these machines numerous >> times eventually the scripts will work >> without this fork:retry error. >> But if you reboot the machine again most likely the fork:retry error will >> reappear. >> It's almost like there is some race condition involved. > > An antivirus more likely > >> >> Any help here greatly appreciated. > > Regards > Marco > > > -- > 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 > -- 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