On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, Jason Tishler wrote: > Jim, > > Thanks for apologizing, but please post instead of sending private > email. > > On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 05:22:34PM -0700, Jim Ramberg wrote: > > But I have not seen any solution mentioned for this problem. > > > > Recently I have started getting this error whenever I try to start > > X-windows and kde: > > > > 8 [main] ? 3688 cygheap_fixup_in_child: Couldn't reserve 9891528 bytes of space > > for cygwin's heap (0x616D0000 <0x500000>) in child, Win32 error 487 > > > > Z:\cygwin\bin\xterm.exe (3688): *** m.AllocationBase 0x0, m.BaseAddress > > 0x616D0000, m.RegionSize 0x670000, m.State 0x10000 > > > > I have tried re-installing software; running rebaseall v and > > defragging the drive. All that it seems to get me is that startx gets > > farther before yielding the same error but with respect to a different > > function: e.g. kdeinit > > > > Any advice would be appreciated. > > > > I am running under windows xp pro and up until yesterday things were > > working just fine. > > > > Regards > > > > Jim Ramberg > > > > (* I saw this problem mentioned for earlier versions of cygwin; but > > w/o a solution ) > > > > I attached a cygcheck s output. > > > > I have 1250MB in VM. > > Sorry, but I have never used kde under Cygwin so I don't know how to > help you. Maybe someone on the list does? >
Try a "Windows Update". All reports of this issue to date that I am aware of have been solved by that, or rebaseall. -- Brian Ford Senior Realtime Software Engineer VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems FlightSafety International the best safety device in any aircraft is a well-trained pilot... -- 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/
