X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <440CA7EF.1000704@cygwin.com> Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 16:21:51 -0500 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051223 Fedora/1.5-0.2.fc4.remi Thunderbird/1.5 Mnenhy/0.7.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: bash "Couldn't Allocate Heap" error - info. References: <20060306172214 DOT 83264 DOT qmail AT web86915 DOT mail DOT ukl DOT yahoo DOT com> <440C9ED9 DOT 7040708 AT buddydog DOT org> In-Reply-To: <440C9ED9.7040708@buddydog.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Note-from-DJ: This may be spam Jonathan Arnold wrote: > Antony Baxter wrote: >> Hello, >> >> This afternoon, for the first time, I began >> experiencing the >> >> C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe: *** fatal error - couldn't >> allocate heap .... >> ... child_copy: stack write copy failed,... >> >> errors that have been reported on this list before. I >> am getting these errors on every '#! /bin/bash' >> script, though I can initially open a bash shell. >> >> I tried changing the heap sizes, and tried rebaseall - >> neither made a difference. >> >> Earlier today I had installed the drivers for my new >> Logitech webcam. Suspecting that these might be the >> problem, I killed all the Logitech processes, >> restarted all my Cygwin services, restarted Cygwin/X, >> and lo & behold, all the errors disappeared and >> everything worked fine. >> >> It'd be great to get these to work together, but not >> the end of the world if its not possible. Any >> thoughts? > > Thank you Thank you Thank you! That's it exactly. I was wondering why > my Cygwin/X stuff started behaving badly. Unfortunately, I had just done > a big update, so I blamed that for awhile. But this is definitely it. > > And after much experimentation, I think you just need to stop one file > from running. I'm not sure what was causing it to run, as it wasn't in > any of my startup folder. But if you rename > > /program files/common/logitech/LVMVFM/LVPrcSrv.exe > > to something else (I called it LVPrcSrv.exe.old), Cygwin/X starts working > again, and there is no loss of functionality that I can tell. > A simple Google unearthed: This sheds a little light on the subject of what this service is there for. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/