X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <44842243.8090303@cygwin.com> Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2006 08:23:31 -0400 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: sshd: fork of unprivileged child failed References: <44835C24 DOT 30802 AT cygwin DOT com> <8F117F75630F94683968A754 AT qjunbur DOT quns DOT cam DOT ac DOT uk> In-Reply-To: <8F117F75630F94683968A754@qjunbur.quns.cam.ac.uk> 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 Robin Walker wrote: > --On 04 June 2006 18:18 -0400 "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" wrote: > >> Robin Walker wrote: >>> In the Windows Application Log there are, for each failed connection >>> attempt, entries of the form: >>> >>> sshd: PID xxxx: fatal: fork of unprivileged child failed. >> >> Did you try a recent snapshot? > > If, by "snapshot", you mean System Restore Point, then the problems > began too long ago for a restore point still to exist. I have been > searching for solutions for some months already. No, I mean a recent Cygwin snapshot of the pending 1.5.20 release. See >> Think about things that have changed about the time things stopped >> working >> for you. This includes things both a part of and external to Cygwin. > > Most likely, it was a Cygwin update. sshd worked OK during most of > 2005, but has not worked since I updated Cygwin early in 2006. I don't > use ssh on a daily basis, and it took some time to notice that > connections were failing. > > Is there any way I can get a previous version of cygwin1.dll to check > against? > Use setup.exe. But backing up may not be very easy if you have other upgraded apps that depend on new functionality in 1.5.19. -- 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/