Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 16:28:50 +0100
From: Elfyn McBratney <elfyn AT emcb DOT co DOT uk>
X-X-Sender: elfyn AT ellixia
Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
To: "Garrett, Ron" <ron DOT garrett AT il DOT proquest DOT com>
cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: rxvt shortcut problem (bash, XP, memory, heap, Win32 error 487)
In-Reply-To: <F35A27ADB3E5D411926D00508BF93D3E0EAA3D27@aamail01.umi.bhowell.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.CYG.4.55.0307101627550.1464@ellixia>
References: <F35A27ADB3E5D411926D00508BF93D3E0EAA3D27 AT aamail01 DOT umi DOT bhowell DOT com>
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII

On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Garrett, Ron wrote:

> 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.

Can you send the output of `cygcheck -svr', as a plain-text *non-compressed*
attachment (not inlined) to the list? It might help pinpoint your problem.

Elfyn

-- 
Elfyn McBratney, EMCB
http://www.emcb.co.uk
elfyn AT emcb DOT co DOT uk



--
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/