From: david AT coent DOT demon DOT co DOT uk (David Coe)
Subject: Re: pinfo_mutex?
23 Jun 1997 01:57:34 -0700
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T. Alexander Popiel wrote:
> 
> I am frequently getting the message:
> 
> cygwin: Cygwin32: Catastrophic fail - unable to Create pinfo_mutex
> 
> when spawning shells (for autoconfiguration, make builds, etc.).
> Does anyone know what this is symptomatic of?  Does anyone know
> a way to fix it?
> 

Running mkpasswd > /etc/passwd fixed this for me.

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