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 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: "vdu" Subject: Re: Crashes with new cygwin-1.5.8-1 on XP Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 19:13:51 +0100 Lines: 46 Message-ID: References: X-Complaints-To: usenet AT sea DOT gmane DOT org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.235.38.73 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 Hi, I had these problems also, I installed all Windows XP patches (yes, Windows patches, dont laugh !) and voila, everything works again. If someone has an explanantion, he is welcome... "Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID)" wrote in message news:F76C9B2DA2FC4C4CA0A18E288BBCBCF70361F33D AT nihexchange24 DOT nih DOT gov... > On XP, starting from a cmd.exe prompt: > > c:\cygwin\bin> bash > 6 [main] ? 3816 init_cheap: Couldn't reserve space for cygwin's heap, > Win32 error 487 > c:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe (3816): *** AllocationBase 0x0, BaseAddress > 0x616E0000, RegionSize 0x1AA0000, State 0x10000 > > c:\cygwin\bin> cygpath > 3 [main] ? 4072 init_cheap: Couldn't reserve space for cygwin's heap, > Win32 error 487 > c:\cygwin\bin\cygpath.exe (4072): *** AllocationBase 0x0, BaseAddress > 0x616E0000, RegionSize 0x1AA0000, State 0x10000 > > On a different machine (a laptop), cygpath crashes but bash does not. > > gawk, pwd, perl, vim, sed, and tr do not crash. > > When I roll back to 1.5.5-1 everything works. (prev in setup.ini was > 1.5.5-1 instead of 1.5.7-1, and after trying several time to get setup to > install 1.5.7-1 out success, I gave up.) > > - Barry > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > -- 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/