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Jonathan Arnold wrote:
> Antony Baxter wrote:
>> 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?
> 
> Thank you Thank you Thank you! That's it exactly. I was wondering why
> my Cygwin/X stuff started behaving badly. Unfortunately, I had just done
> a big update, so I blamed that for awhile. But this is definitely it.
> 
> And after much experimentation, I think you just need to stop one file
> from running. I'm not sure what was causing it to run, as it wasn't in
> any of my startup folder.  But if you rename
> 
> /program files/common/logitech/LVMVFM/LVPrcSrv.exe
> 
> to something else (I called it LVPrcSrv.exe.old), Cygwin/X starts working
> again, and there is no loss of functionality that I can tell.
> 

A simple Google unearthed:

<http://www.liutilities.com/products/wintaskspro/processlibrary/LVPrcSrv/>

This sheds a little light on the subject of what this service is there for.

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