X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:27:23 +0100 From: Robin Walker Reply-To: Robin Walker To: Lester Ingber , cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: bash.exe: ***fatal error Message-ID: <981EFA5154200A9265C40A6A@qjunbur.quns.cam.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20080430165111.GA4168@ingber.com> References: <20080430165111.GA4168@ingber.com> X-Mailer: Mulberry/4.0.7 (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-Id: 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 30 April 2008 09:51 -0700 Lester Ingber wrote: > Yesterday I installed the final version of SP3 on my XP Professional > system, which I downloaded via a link to the microsoft .exe via zdnet Which build number of SP3 was that in fact? (Don't trust what the site said, look at what has been downloaded and installed. Look at the detailed file version of a file that has been updated by SP3, for instance, termdd.sys). > (1) Whenever I try to start a cygwin window via the default shortcut icon, > which points to C:\cygwin\cygwin.bat (which is the same since 2005), > I am getting > > 6 [main] ? (4596) C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe: ***fatal error - > couln't allocate heap, Win32 error 487, base 0x6D0000, top > 0x6E0000, reserve_size 61440, allocatesize 65536, page_cost 4096 Just a stab in the dark: 1. Try renaming "cygwin.bat" as "cygwin.cmd", and then calling "cygwin.cmd". Interpreting a .bat file will be done in the 16-bit emulation layer of XP, which then has to spawn 32-bit applications. Try doing it all within the 32-bit environment by using .cmd files instead of .bat. 2. Did the installation of SP3 change the ordering of items in your PATH? Is there more than one "bash.exe" on your hard disk? -- 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/