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Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 15:09:40 -0500
To: Adrian Hawryluk <adrianh AT yucc DOT yorku DOT ca>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: Larry Hall <lh-no-personal-replies-please AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: Ahhhhh!
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At 02:52 PM 11/19/2004, you wrote:
>I just updated my version of Cygwin and all hell broke loose.
>Unfortunatly I do not know what version of cygwin I had before, but I
>now know that the one that I do have is not working.  I've tried
>version 1.5.12-1 and 1.5.11-1 (I was trying to go back).
>
>I used the Cygwin Setup programme and things went wrong from the
>start.  The programme crashed and I couldn't use any of the cygwin
>utils.  Even after restart.  I deleted the cygwin1.dll and reinstalled
>and things went more smoothly.  But when I tried to run a perl script
>that I had always used, it belched this out:
>
>  c:\progra~1\cygwin\bin\perl.exe (1132): *** couldn't release memory 0xCE4000(1032192) for 'C:\progra~1\cygwin\lib\perl5\5.8.5\cygwin-thread-multi-64int\auto\IO\IO.dll' alignment, Win32 error 487
>
>      101 [main] perl 1520 sync_with_child: child 1132(0x28C) died before initialization with status code 0x1
>      272 [main] perl 1520 sync_with_child: *** child state child loading dlls
>
>
>This appears to be caused by the implicit fork in the line:
>
>  open (INPUT, 'cvs log |') or die ("Couldn't execute cvs command.  $!");
>
>I've looked around the net and found that this problem was addressed previously:
>
>  On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 04:49:43PM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
>  >----- Original Message -----
>  >From: "Jason Tishler" <Jason DOT Tishler AT dothill DOT com>
>  >To: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
>  >Cc: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
>  >Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2001 12:12 PM
>  >Subject: Re: pthreads update for the adventurous
>  >
>  >> > 3. The Python regression tests consistently crash during test_popen2
>  >> > with the following error message:
>  >> >
>  >>>H:\src\Python-2.1b2a-threads\python.exe: *** couldn't release memory
>  >>>0x1A02C000(5013504) for
>  >>>'H:\src\Python-2.1b2a-threads\build\lib.cygwin_nt-4.0-1.3.0-i686-2.1\imageop.dll'
>  >>>alignment, Win32 error 487
>
>  This error means that Cygwin was trying to relocate a DLL load point in
>  a child process to the same location as it existed in the parent and was
>  unsuccesful in doing so.  The 487 error means "Invalid address".  That
>  may that that the memory is already occupied.
>
>  There's not much that can be done to rectify this, unfortunately.
>  Possibly if someone really wants to debug this situation there might be
>  something that will be obvious but it is pretty painful to debug,
>  unfortunately.
>
>  I added this dll relocation stuff last year to help with perl.  It
>  wasn't fun.
>
>  cgf
>
>However this was some time ago.
>
>The Os that I am using is Win2K, and has not changed when I tried to update my cygwin.
>
>Is there anything that can be done?  


Same as always.  Install the 'rebase' package and run 'rebaseall'.


>Is there a way to go back further
>to an earlier verion that works?


Sure.  Change the temporal constant of the universe.



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