X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2006 12:09:43 +0100 From: Robin Walker Reply-To: Robin Walker To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: sshd: fork of unprivileged child failed Message-ID: <8F117F75630F94683968A754@qjunbur.quns.cam.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <44835C24.30802@cygwin.com> References: <44835C24.30802@cygwin.com> X-Mailer: Mulberry/4.0.4 (Win32) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 --On 04 June 2006 18:18 -0400 "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" wrote: > Robin Walker wrote: >> In the Windows Application Log there are, for each failed connection >> attempt, entries of the form: >> >> sshd: PID xxxx: fatal: fork of unprivileged child failed. > > Did you try a recent snapshot? If, by "snapshot", you mean System Restore Point, then the problems began too long ago for a restore point still to exist. I have been searching for solutions for some months already. > Please read and follow the problem reporting guidelines found at: > I couldn't see anything there that addresses this problem. I included a cygcheck output in a previous post in this thread. I have already spent some months struggling with this before coming to this list, and Googled every likely search term. The searches show some other users had a similar problem, but cured it with a rebaseall. That worked once for me, but no longer. > Think about things that have changed about the time things stopped working > for you. This includes things both a part of and external to Cygwin. Most likely, it was a Cygwin update. sshd worked OK during most of 2005, but has not worked since I updated Cygwin early in 2006. I don't use ssh on a daily basis, and it took some time to notice that connections were failing. Is there any way I can get a previous version of cygwin1.dll to check against? -- Robin Walker (Junior Bursar), Queens' College, Cambridge CB3 9ET, UK rdhw@cam.ac.uk http://www.queens.cam.ac.uk/ Tel:+44 1223 335528 -- 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/