Jonathan, Gunnar, Excellent! Well done. Stopping that service does indeed allow Cygwin to work properly again.
Gunnar - yes, its the process that makes the face overlay work. I think I can live without this, though it'll be a great disappointment to my 2.5 yr old nephew who thinks that his uncle has turned into a shark and, to be honest, is now far more interested in talking to me. How about a new marketing slogan: "Cygwin - makes children cry"? :) Ant. --- Gunnar Norling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the enlightment. I turned the service to > `Manual' for now. Funny > to see what the service manager says: > > Display Name: Logitech Process Manager > Description: Webcam Effects Helper > > Is that supposed to be the ``face overlay'' > features, or? Haven't yet > scanned the Logitech support site/forum... I wonder > :-\ > > Again, thanks for the enligthment. > /norling > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Antony Baxter > > Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 6:22 PM > > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > > Subject: bash "Couldn't Allocate Heap" error - > info. > > > > > > Hello, > > > > This afternoon, for the first time, I began > experiencing the > > > > C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe: *** fatal error - couldn't > allocate heap .... > > ... child_copy: stack write copy failed,... > > > > errors that have been reported on this list > before. I am > > getting these errors on every '#! /bin/bash' > > script, though I can initially open a bash shell. > > > > I tried changing the heap sizes, and tried > rebaseall - > > neither made a difference. > > > > Earlier today I had installed the drivers for my > new Logitech > > webcam. Suspecting that these might be the > problem, I killed > > all the Logitech processes, restarted all my > Cygwin services, > > restarted Cygwin/X, and lo & behold, all the > errors > > disappeared and everything worked fine. > > > > It'd be great to get these to work together, but > not the end > > of the world if its not possible. Any thoughts? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Ant. > > > > > > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________ > > To help you stay safe and secure online, we've > developed the > > all new Yahoo! Security Centre. > http://uk.security.yahoo.com > > > > -- > > 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/ > > > > ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Photos NEW, now offering a quality print service from just 8p a photo http://uk.photos.yahoo.com -- 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/
