On September 6, 2023 2:52 PM, Dale Lobb expressed: > > Since upgrading to the latest version of Cygwin a few weeks ago on a > server I manage, I've been experiencing an issue with fork errors. > The Cygwin installation had not been updated for almost a year > before that. > > The issue happens every time a script is invoked that purges files > from some temporary directories, but never in the same place in the > script. The script uses multiple calls to find -exec to remove > files over 10 days old from the directories. Here is a typical > error. Sometime the issue will assert after just a few tens of > files deleted, sometimes after hundreds or thousands of files have > been deleted: > > removed '/cygdrive/d/.../obfuscated.datedata.txt' > 1 [main] find 20066 dofork: child -1 - forked process 4068 died > unexpectedly, retry 0, exit code 0xC0000142, errno 11 > find: cannot fork: Resource temporarily unavailable > > It also happens randomly at other times. I've seen the bash shell > itself fail on the invocation of a mintty. I've seen it happen on > all sorts of interactive commands entered from bash. > > Today, as a test, I updated all the installed Cygwin components. > One of the post installation scripts failed, so I re-exec'd it: > > $ ./postinstall/0p_update-info-dir.dash > Rebuilding info directory > 2 [main] dash 2059 dofork: child -1 - forked process 7676 died > unexpectedly, retry 0, exit code 0xC0000142, errno 11 > ./postinstall/0p_update-info-dir.dash: 22: Cannot fork > > A second re-exec then worked fine. > > I've tried reinstalling all the components, and I've tried > rebaseall. > > Is there anything else I can try, or troubleshooting steps to > take? > > Best Regards,
Take a look at this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36399041/cygwin-update-cause-error-could-not-fork-child-process-resource-temporarily-u it may not help, but it's something to look into. -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
