Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <20030911204141.6110.qmail@web10004.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 13:41:41 -0700 (PDT) From: james pentland Subject: win2k "resource" exhaustion problem - no Cygwin programs will run To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii dear Cygwin developers: i have a bash script which apparently causes an exhaustion of system resources. which "resources" i am unclear about - it does not seem to be memory. the consequences of running it, at a minimum, are that 1) the script fails at some point, 2) no further Cygwin executables will run, 3) dialout to an internet service provider fails, 4) a number of non-Cygwin executables do not operate properly. below is a simple script which will make the problem happen and a partial transcript of a Cygwin console session where it is invoked. do you have any ideas on this issue? [[--]] TRANSCRIPT OF CONSOLE SESSION Administrator AT ZOK /ntd/new $ cat yawfu-sh #!/bin/bash let nn=1 ls -ltR /nt0/WINNT > /tmp/WINNT-lsR while : ; do cat /tmp/WINNT-lsR | sed -n -e "/.*/p" > /tmp/p1 echo COUNT=$nn ((nn=$nn+1)) done Administrator AT ZOK /ntd/new $ cygcheck -s: Cygwin Win95/NT Configuration Diagnostics [...] Windows 2000 Professional Ver 5.0 Build 2195 [...] Cygwin DLL version info: DLL version: 1.3.18 [...] Administrator AT ZOK /ntd/new $ ./yawfu-sh COUNT=1 COUNT=2 COUNT=3 [...] COUNT=1640 COUNT=1641 COUNT=1642 COUNT=1643 ./yawfu-sh: line 7: /usr/bin/sed: Permission denied ./yawfu-sh: line 7: /usr/bin/cat: Permission denied COUNT=1644 ./yawfu-sh: line 7: /usr/bin/cat: Permission denied COUNT=1645 ./yawfu-sh: line 7: /usr/bin/cat: Permission denied COUNT=1646 ./yawfu-sh: line 7: /usr/bin/cat: Permission denied 5 [main] bash 16184 sync_with_child: child 42548(0x118) died before initia lization with status code 0x80 309 [main] bash 16184 sync_with_child: *** child state waiting for longjmp ./yawfu-sh: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable Administrator AT ZOK /ntd/new $ ls /tmp bash: /usr/bin/ls: Permission denied [[--]] RESULT OF SUBSEQUENT ATTEMPT TO RUN CYGWIN SHELL [ shell window appears, then disappears immediately] [[--]] RESULT OF LATER ATTEMPT TO RUN CYGWIN SHELL bash: fork: Permission denied bash-2.05b$ bash-2.05b$ bash-2.05b$ ls bash: /usr/bin/ls: Permission denied bash-2.05b$ [[--]] RESULT OF SUBSEQUENT ATTEMPT TO DIAL TO INTERNET PROVIDER WARNING POPUP: Error connecting to usernet Checking network protocol connections ,,, TCP/IP CP reported error 1453: insufficient quota to complete the requested service [[--]] RESULT OF SUBSEQUENT ATTEMPT TO RUN notepad.exe [notepad runs, but can not open a file, reports "insufficient resources"] __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com -- 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/