Greetings, Houder! > Hi,
> YES, I know, XP is NOT supported anymore ... However, I started > out on XP ... and it has sshd running as a Window service, > installed and configured (as approved by Corinna :-) > ... some time ago I may have upgraded openssh over there (yes, I > am now running W7) ... I cannot really remember. Yes, sometimes I > visit (ssh) the "old station" (XP) for info that I am missing. > (both machines are behind a firewall - rest assured) > "Suddenly" (yesterday?) I noticed that the "sshd daemon" fails; > it is started at system startup (i.e. an automatic service). > When the service is restarted after system startup, i.c. > cygrunsrv -E sshd; cygrunsrv -S sshd > it then works flawlessly (which amazes me, given the error in > the sshd.log) What if you `net start "Cygwin sshad"` ? > ... tried several things ... in the end, I reinstalled Cygwin + > openssh (a minimal installation) -- using the time machine. > However this new, minimal installation of Cywin fails in the exact > same way! > Again tried some things ... Finally, I decided to post my problem. > Any suggestions? (Yes, XP has F-Secure as anti-virus) > The message in the sshd.log: > Server listening on 0.0.0.0 port <X>.^M # X = some port, but not 22 > 1 [main] sshd 3152 E:\Cygwin25\usr\sbin\sshd.exe: *** fatal error > in forked process - fork: can't reserve memory for parent stack 0x30000 > - 0x230000, (child has 0x40000 - 0x240000), Win32 error 487 > 395874 [main] sshd 3152 cygwin_exception::open_stackdumpfile: Dumping > stack trace to sshd.exe.stackdump > 3 [main] sshd 536 fork: child -1 - forked process 3152 died > unexpectedly, retry 0, exit code 0x100, errno 11 > fork: Resource temporarily unavailable^M > Do I interpret this correctly? The child (sshd) fails to "allocate > stack for the parent (sshd)" ... > WHY does this only happen at system STARTUP ????? Any "antivirus" running on that system? Did you try to fully rebase your installation? -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Thursday, May 25, 2017 18:57:22 Sorry for my terrible english... -- 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