On 05/27/2015 08:03 PM, Eliot Moss wrote: > On 5/27/2015 5:16 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. >> 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 may be grasping at straws, but do you have a large number of cygwin > packages in your install? > At some times in the past, if you had a really large number of packages (it's > the dll's in them that > are of primary concern), the rebasing (which tries to give every library a > unique address range) > could use so much of your address space that dll's would start running into > other areas. If this > might be a problem, maybe doing a smaller installation, with fewer packages, > would work better. > > Regards -- Eliot Moss
Thanks, Eliot. Right now we're only installing the Base package plus about 5 or 6 additional packages. I wouldn't think that would be too many. The install goes pretty quick. -- 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
