I'm having trouble starting rxvt from a shortcut icon. If I simply click on
the rxvt.exe icon in a Windows Explorer window, then I get a console window
that is running /usr/bin/sh. If I then try to start bash, I get a heap
allocation error:
$ ps
PID PPID PGID WINPID TTY UID STIME COMMAND
180 1 180 180 con 1005 11:43:00 /usr/bin/rxvt
3292 180 3292 948 0 1005 11:43:01 /usr/bin/sh
3812 3292 3292 2440 0 1005 11:43:17 /usr/bin/ps
$ bash
C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe: *** Couldn't reserve space for cygwin's heap
(0x2B80000) in child, cygheap, Win32 error 487
If I try a shortcut that starts bash immediately (as suggested by several
sources), then I see two windows open briefly and close. I'm guessing the
same problem is happening there.
If I start rxvt from a cygwin terminal window (already running bash), then
rxvt starts up fine, and begins running bash itself. This happens even when
I don't include the "-e /bin/bash" arguments to rxvt.
I'm running Windows XP and my env under bash includes
BASH_VERSION=$'2.05.0(6)-release'.
Anyone have any clues what's going wrong with my shortcut?
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