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From: "Garrett, Ron" <ron DOT garrett AT il DOT proquest DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: rxvt shortcut problem (bash, XP, memory, heap, Win32 error 487)
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 11:13:31 -0400
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I'm having trouble starting rxvt from a shortcut icon. If I simply click on
the rxvt.exe icon in a Windows Explorer window, then I get a console window
that is running /usr/bin/sh. If I then try to start bash, I get a heap
allocation error:

$ ps
      PID    PPID    PGID     WINPID  TTY  UID    STIME COMMAND
      180       1     180        180  con 1005 11:43:00 /usr/bin/rxvt
     3292     180    3292        948    0 1005 11:43:01 /usr/bin/sh
     3812    3292    3292       2440    0 1005 11:43:17 /usr/bin/ps
$ bash
C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe: *** Couldn't reserve space for cygwin's heap
(0x2B80000) in child, cygheap, Win32 error 487
 

If I try a shortcut that starts bash immediately (as suggested by several
sources), then I see two windows open briefly and close. I'm guessing the
same problem is happening there.

If I start rxvt from a cygwin terminal window (already running bash), then
rxvt starts up fine, and begins running bash itself. This happens even when
I don't include the "-e /bin/bash" arguments to rxvt.

I'm running Windows XP and my env under bash includes
BASH_VERSION=$'2.05.0(6)-release'.

Anyone have any clues what's going wrong with my shortcut?



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