From: kunglao AT prairienet DOT org (Seymore Buttz) Subject: Re: Sergey's cygwin.dll 5 Jun 1997 22:00:41 -0700 Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <33969A1E.57FD9FB9.cygnus.gnu-win32@prairienet.org> References: <199706041110 DOT MAA32913 AT muzak DOT trintech DOT ie> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.0b5 [en] (Win95; I) Original-To: GNU Win 32 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Colman Curtin wrote: > > >bash$ ls > >(unknown) heap_init: unable to allocate heap, win32 error 8 > >cygwin: terminating > >bash$ > > >Sergey told me error 8 is an out of memory error, but I've got > plenty. > >And the Win95 swap file is no where near maxed out, should it want > more > >memory. > > I get similar errors to this. > as with the previous example, but ls works fine at first but say after > a cd > to a sub dir it fails. > > :/root/usr/src> cd tsock > :usr/src/tsock> ls > (C:\GNUWIN32\B18\H-I386-CYGWIN32\BIN\BASH.EXE 1000) forkee heap_init: > unable > to > allocate heap, win32 error 8 > cygwin: terminating > fork_helper: child died before initialization with win32 error 1 > > running on Win95,p133,16M. > In my case, there were some more old cygwin.dll files in the distribution. Check /H-i386*/bin and /H-i386*/i386*/lib. Just rename those to something else, and you'll be all set. - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".