Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 13:27:08 -0500 From: Brian Ford Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Jason Tishler cc: Jim Ramberg , Cygwin Subject: Re: I apologize for mailing you directly problem with rebaseall ? In-Reply-To: <20040720110434.GA42556@tishler.net> Message-ID: References: <000801c46def$ac15aed0$2201000a@usagi> <20040720110434.GA42556@tishler.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=unknown-8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from QUOTED-PRINTABLE to 8bit by delorie.com id i6KIRqgp001772 On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, Jason Tishler wrote: > Jim, > > Thanks for apologizing, but please post instead of sending private > email. > > On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 05:22:34PM -0700, Jim Ramberg wrote: > > But I have not seen any solution mentioned for this problem. > > > > Recently I have started getting this error whenever I try to start > > X-windows and kde: > > > > 8 [main] ? 3688 cygheap_fixup_in_child: Couldn't reserve 9891528 bytes of space > > for cygwin's heap (0x616D0000 <0x500000>) in child, Win32 error 487 > > > > Z:\cygwin\bin\xterm.exe (3688): *** m.AllocationBase 0x0, m.BaseAddress > > 0x616D0000, m.RegionSize 0x670000, m.State 0x10000 > > > > I have tried re-installing software; running rebaseall ­v and > > defragging the drive. All that it seems to get me is that startx gets > > farther before yielding the same error but with respect to a different > > function: e.g. kdeinit > > > > Any advice would be appreciated. > > > > I am running under windows xp pro and up until yesterday things were > > working just fine. > > > > Regards > > > > Jim Ramberg > > > > (* I saw this problem mentioned for earlier versions of cygwin; but > > w/o a solution ) > > > > I attached a cygcheck ­s output. > > > > I have 1250MB in VM. > > Sorry, but I have never used kde under Cygwin so I don't know how to > help you. Maybe someone on the list does? > Try a "Windows Update". All reports of this issue to date that I am aware of have been solved by that, or rebaseall. -- Brian Ford Senior Realtime Software Engineer VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems FlightSafety International the best safety device in any aircraft is a well-trained pilot... -- 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/