On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, Andy Rushton wrote: > I'm having similar problems with release 1.5.9. I thought that if I > posted more information it might help to pin down the problem. > > I have just done a complete clean reinstall of Cygwin (i.e. deleted the > directory and registry settings first) using the net installer and > therefore using the 'official' releases of all packages. The > cygcheck.out fiile is attached if you need to know more. I'm running > under XP (you're always 'under' Windoze) with all the latest patches and > updates. So, the buggy version then. > > Consider the following sequence typed in under the DOS shell: > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > H:\Documents and Settings\Andy>bash --login -c XWin > 4 [main] ? 476 cygheap_fixup_in_child: Couldn't reserve space for > cygwin's heap (0x616E0000 <0x7E0000>) in child, Win32 error 487 > H:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\XWin.exe (476): *** m.AllocationBase 0x0, > m.BaseAddress 0x616E0000, m.RegionSize 0x1AA0000, m.State 0x10000 > > H:\Documents and Settings\Andy>bash --login > > $ XWin > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > The latter command worked fine. > > I've tried running 'rebaseall' and it made no difference. Mind you, > should it do anything on a completely fresh build?
Yes, it will. Eventually, rebaseall may be automatically run from setup.exe, but it isn't currently. > The really odd thing is that I have another PC at home with the same > version of XP, same update status and as far as I can tell, the same > install of Cygwin and I have no problems. Are you sure about the "same update status" part? The following would imply that a "Windows Update" will fix your problem. Could you try it and report back? http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-04/msg00188.html Thanks. -- Brian Ford Senior Realtime Software Engineer VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems FlightSafety International Phone: 314-551-8460 Fax: 314-551-8444 -- 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/
