Re: cygwin stopped working

2018-02-14 Thread Marco Atzeri
No TOP post please On 14/02/2018 02:41, Bryan Zimmer wrote: I have been following this thread closely as I have a similar problem. It only differs in that mintty, which I use to start bash, fails completely. It tells me that it cannot fork, that the problem could be that I have more than 1 cygwi

Re: cygwin stopped working

2018-02-13 Thread Eliot Moss
On 2/13/2018 8:41 PM, Bryan Zimmer wrote: I have been following this thread closely as I have a similar problem. It only differs in that mintty, which I use to start bash, fails completely. It tells me that it cannot fork, that the problem could be that I have more than 1 cygwin1.dll, that I shou

Re: W10 Mandatory ASLR default (was: cygwin stopped working)

2018-02-13 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2018-02-12 21:58, Andreas Schiffler wrote: > Found the workaround (read: not really a solution as it leaves the system > vulnerable, but it unblocks cygwin) > - Go to Windows Defender Security Center - Exploit protection settings > - Disable System Settings - Force randomization for images (Mand

Re: cygwin stopped working

2018-02-13 Thread Bryan Zimmer
I have been following this thread closely as I have a similar problem. It only differs in that mintty, which I use to start bash, fails completely. It tells me that it cannot fork, that the problem could be that I have more than 1 cygwin1.dll, that I should run rebaseall or rebase --help. Unfortuna

Re: cygwin stopped working

2018-02-12 Thread Andreas Schiffler
Found the workaround (read: not really a solution as it leaves the system vulnerable, but it unblocks cygwin) - Go to Windows Defender Security Center - Exploit protection settings - Disable System Settings - Force randomization for images (Mandatory ASLR) and Randomize memory allocations (Botto

Re: cygwin stopped working

2018-02-12 Thread Achim Gratz
Andreas Schiffler writes: > Thanks for the tip, but that didn't seem to have helped. > > The registry setting CYGWIN_NOWINPATH=1 did not seem to affect the > environment as seen in bash. You need to start bash so that it actually processes /etc/profile for this to work (most simply, start it as a

Re: cygwin stopped working

2018-02-12 Thread Jostein Berntsen
On 11.02.18,17:16, Andreas Schiffler wrote: > Thanks for the tip, but that didn't seem to have helped. > > The registry setting CYGWIN_NOWINPATH=1 did not seem to affect the > environment as seen in bash. > > The variable seems to be set: > > bash-4.4$ set > ...snip... > COMSPEC='C:\WINDOWS\syst

Re: cygwin stopped working

2018-02-11 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2018-02-11 18:16, Andreas Schiffler wrote: > On 2/11/2018 2:42 AM, Doug Henderson wrote: >> On 11 February 2018 at 01:18, Andreas Schiffler  wrote: >>> Terminal (bash) fails with: >>> Error: Could not fork child process: Resource temporarily unavailable (-1). >>> DLL rebasing may be required; se

Re: cygwin stopped working

2018-02-11 Thread Andreas Schiffler
Thanks for the tip, but that didn't seem to have helped. The registry setting CYGWIN_NOWINPATH=1 did not seem to affect the environment as seen in bash. The variable seems to be set: bash-4.4$ set ...snip... COMSPEC='C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe' CYGWIN_NOWINPATH=1 ...snip but the path variab

Re: cygwin stopped working

2018-02-11 Thread Doug Henderson
On 11 February 2018 at 01:18, Andreas Schiffler wrote: > Terminal (bash) fails with: > > Error: Could not fork child process: Resource temporarily unavailable (-1). > DLL rebasing may be required; see 'rebaseall / rebase --help'. > {snip} > bash-4.4$ ls > 1 [main] bash (6316) C:\Cygwin\bin\b

cygwin stopped working

2018-02-11 Thread Andreas Schiffler
Terminal (bash) fails with: Error: Could not fork child process: Resource temporarily unavailable (-1). DLL rebasing may be required; see 'rebaseall / rebase --help'. PC was rebooted and the cygwin was "refreshed". Installer (version 2.884, 32bit) fails with: Package: 0/Perpetual     0p_000_au