On 2018-02-11 18:16, Andreas Schiffler wrote: > On 2/11/2018 2:42 AM, Doug Henderson wrote: >> On 11 February 2018 at 01:18, Andreas Schiffler wrote: >>> Terminal (bash) fails with: >>> Error: Could not fork child process: Resource temporarily unavailable (-1). >>> DLL rebasing may be required; see 'rebaseall / rebase --help'. >>> bash-4.4$ ls >>> 1 [main] bash (6316) C:\Cygwin\bin\bash.exe: *** fatal error - >>> cygheap >>> base mismatch detected - 0x3922410/0x3962410. >>> This problem is probably due to using incompatible versions of the cygwin >>> DLL. >>> I do have another version of the cygwin dll file on the system (Plex >>> installation) but that never caused any issues in the past. >> The method I use is to define CYGWIN_NOWINPATH=1 before I start >> cygwin. Actually, I set it in my Windows User environment so it is >> always set for my user. You can find the old windows path as the value >> of the environment variable ORIGINAL_PATH. Then, when necessary, I add >> only the previous path components that I require back in my >> .bash_profile. In my cases,My path looks like: >> $ echo $PATH >> /home/USER/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/cygdrive/c/Go/bin:/bin >> In your case, you may have Plex in your path. Make sure any Plex >> related directories are not in your cygwin path. >> A Google (or similar) search for "CYGWIN_NOWINPATH" will find many >> pages on cygwin.com and stackoverflow.com. > Thanks for the tip, but that didn't seem to have helped.> The registry > setting CYGWIN_NOWINPATH=1 did not seem to affect the > environment as seen in bash.> The variable seems to be set:> bash-4.4$ set> COMSPEC='C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe'> CYGWIN_NOWINPATH=1> but the path variable contains still all the common system locations:> bash-4.4$ echo $PATH> /cygdrive/c/ProgramData/Oracle/Java/javapath:/cygdrive/c/Program Files > (x86)/iis express/PHP/v5.3:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Common Files/Microsoft > Shared/Windows Live:/cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/Common Files/Microsoft > Shared/Windows Live:/cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/Intel/iCLS > Client:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Intel/iCLS > Client:/cygdrive/c/Windows/system32:/cygdrive/c/Windows:...snip...> Manually > overriding the PATH variable in bash did not help (presumably > because the offending DLL is already loaded):> bash-4.4$ export > PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin> bash-4.4$ echo $PATH> /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin> bash-4.4$ ls> 0 [main] bash (11276) C:\Cygwin\bin\bash.exe: *** fatal error - cygheap base > mismatch detected - 0x3C52410/0x36F2410.> This problem is probably due to > using incompatible versions of the cygwin > DLL.> Search for cygwin1.dll using the Windows Start->Find/Search facility and > delete all but the most recent version. The most recent version *should* > reside in x:\cygwin\bin, where 'x' is the drive on which you have installed > the cygwin distribution. Rebooting is also suggested if you are unable to > find another cygwin DLL. Run in a cmd terminal <CYGWIN_ROOT>\bin\cygcheck bash (or ls) and see if there are any non-Cygwin and non-Windows DLLs from other products' directories in your path that may be interfering.
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