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Subject:	Re: bash: fork: Permission denied -- how can I fix this?
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Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> 
> James Adams wrote:
>> I have recently installed Cygwin version 2.510.2.2 onto a Windows XP
>> system
>> and when I launch it the first thing I see is this:
> 
> 
> 2.510.2.2 is the version of 'setup.exe', not Cygwin.  The Cygwin package,
> which is just one of many in the Cygwin distribution, is currently
> 1.5.24-2.
> 
> 

OK sorry, the Cygwin version is 1.5.24-2


Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> 
>>       5 [main] bash 3024 fork: child -1 - CreateProcessA failed, errno 13
>> bash: fork: Permission denied
>> 
>> I get the same message when I try running the ls command:
>> 
>> bash-3.2$ ls
>> 9404505 [main] bash 1544 fork: child -1 - CreateProcessA failed, errno 13
>> bash: fork: Permission denied
>> 
>> Can someone suggest what's going wrong, and how I can fix it?
> 
> 
> Let's start here: <http://cygwin.com/problems.html>
> 

The only thing listed on that page that I didn't do was to include the
output from cygcheck, since cygcheck also gives the fork permission denied
error: 
  
bash-3.2$ cygcheck -s -v -r > cygcheck.out
69675674 [main] bash 3156 fork: child -1 - CreateProcessA failed, errno 13
bash: fork: Permission denied


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