Hi, I had these problems also, I installed all Windows XP patches (yes, Windows patches, dont laugh !) and voila, everything works again. If someone has an explanantion, he is welcome...
"Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On XP, starting from a cmd.exe prompt: > > c:\cygwin\bin> bash > 6 [main] ? 3816 init_cheap: Couldn't reserve space for cygwin's heap, > Win32 error 487 > c:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe (3816): *** AllocationBase 0x0, BaseAddress > 0x616E0000, RegionSize 0x1AA0000, State 0x10000 > > c:\cygwin\bin> cygpath > 3 [main] ? 4072 init_cheap: Couldn't reserve space for cygwin's heap, > Win32 error 487 > c:\cygwin\bin\cygpath.exe (4072): *** AllocationBase 0x0, BaseAddress > 0x616E0000, RegionSize 0x1AA0000, State 0x10000 > > On a different machine (a laptop), cygpath crashes but bash does not. > > gawk, pwd, perl, vim, sed, and tr do not crash. > > When I roll back to 1.5.5-1 everything works. (prev in setup.ini was > 1.5.5-1 instead of 1.5.7-1, and after trying several time to get setup to > install 1.5.7-1 out success, I gave up.) > > - Barry > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
