Mail Archives: cygwin/2010/08/20/15:32:30
On 8/20/2010 11:34 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> On 8/20/2010 11:28 AM, Baldur Gislason wrote:
>> Hi, I recently installed the latest version of cygwin after using
>> previous
>> (1.5) versions without problems. Almost nothing works on 1.7 and even
>> after
>> reinstalling my machine
>> I still have the same problem. My machine runs Windows XP SP2.
>> My install.log.full has a lot of errors like this one:
>> 3879146 [main] bash 3716 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp before
>> initialization, retry 0, exit code 0x100, errno 11
>> 4 [main] bash 3872 C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe: *** fatal error - couldn't
>> allocate heap, Win32 error 487, base 0x6D0000, top 0x740000, reserve_size
>> 454656, allocsize 458752, page_const 4096
>> This doesn't only happen with bash, it was also happening with other apps
>> such as rsync before I reinstalled the operating system. Any ideas or
>> hints
>> for diagnosing this? Can I acquire an older setup.exe and try
>> installing a
>> previous version of cygwin? Full log is at
>> http://foo.is/~baldur/setup.log.full.gz
>
> If you look in the email archives for messages with similar complaints,
> you'll find that this kind of problem is most commonly the result of one
> of two things:
>
> 1. You need to install the rebase package, read its README, and run
> rebaseall as prescribed.
>
> 2. <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#BLODA>
>
Supplementary: what do you do when rebaseall fails to work? I've tried
to post my cygcheck output a couple of times, but perhaps gmane has
volume limits. Guess I could use e-mail ...
regards
Steve
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