On Wed, 23 Mar 2005, Kris Thielemans wrote:
> Corrado Labinaz <corradolab <at> virgilio.it> writes:
>
> > I've installed latest (1.5.13) cygwin on Windows Server 2003.
> > It works fine while logged on as Administrator.
> > Launching Bash as a "normal" User give the following error:
> >
> > 3 [main] bash 3252 fork_parent: child 3260 died waiting for longjmp
> > before
> > initialization
> > bash: fork: Bad file descriptor
>
> Hi
>
> I have exactly the same under Windows XP Home sp2.
Not the same problem at all.
> In fact, I had a lot of trouble to get cygwin to work earlier for non-admin
> users on this machine. The permissions were always wrong (e.g. files in /bin
> were only executable for administrators, files in "Documents and Settings"
> were all owned by the administrator etc). I fixed all (?) that by using
> chmod and chown and got it to work. Then I updated to the latest cygwin and
> am stuck again. I still strongly suspect a permission problem, but cannot
> find which one.
What does "getfacl /bin" report? I'd bet there isn't an inheritable
execute permission for everyone. If this is the case, all the DLLs will
not be executable for "other", which is consistent with your symptoms
below.
> Some more info:
>
> - going to a windows cmd prompt, cd \cygwin\bin, executing just bash, does
> not give this error, but I'm still stuck with that error message when
> running any executable e.g. ls
>
> - from a windows cmd prompt, executing some other cygwin utilities gives the
> following:
> C:\cygwin\bin\id.exe (3876): *** could not load user32, Win32 error 1114
>
> Win32 error 1114 is apparently
> "A dynamic link library (DLL) initialization routine failed."
It's probably not "user32" (as bash also uses it). Try "cygintl-3.dll" or
"cygiconv-2.dll".
> So, I checked permissions of user32.dll in c:\windows\system32. Weirdly
> enough, all dll and exe there are listed as owned by adminstrators, and
> rwxrwx---. That does not make any sense to me. Anyway, I tried then to chmod
> +rx user32.dll (and some other dlls) but that didn't change the above error,
> nor solve the problem.
>
> - ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] (e.g. when logged in as admin on machine) works
> fine. I can then do ls etc without problems. (isn't that weird?)
It is. Probably because some of SYSTEM's credentials leak through to the
underlying shell...
> - cygcheck -s as non-admin user says there are 2 cygwin1.dll in the path
> (but both listed as .\cygwin1.dll). cygcheck -s as admin users does not
> complain at all. and of course, I can find only 1 in c:\cygwin\bin anyway.
> (Maybe this is because cygcheck has some problems? It obviously complains
> about running id.exe for instance).
This is a superfluous message in this case. It appears whenever cygcheck
is run from /bin, since cygcheck always checks the current directory
independently of the PATH. Arguably, it's a cygcheck bug.
Either you ran admin's cygcheck from a different directory, or "."
is not in the PATH for admin... According to your cygcheck output, it's
the former.
FYI, it's better to run "cygcheck -svr" instead of just "cygcheck -s", as
you seem to have done.
> I've attached both cygchecks.
> Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Try "chmod a+x /bin/*.dll" and see if that solves your problem. If yes,
then "setfacl -m d:m:rwx,d:g:rwx,d:o:r-x /bin" should help for future
updates...
HTH,
Igor
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