X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <12787463.post@talk.nabble.com> Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:28:23 -0700 (PDT) From: James Adams To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: bash: fork: Permission denied -- how can I fix this? In-Reply-To: <12785522.post@talk.nabble.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Nabble-From: monocongo AT gmail DOT com References: <12785522 DOT post AT talk DOT nabble DOT com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 I fixed the problem by installing into another directory other than C:\cygwin. I have no idea why this fixes the problem, but probably it has something to do with security packages installed on the computer (it's a new work laptop which appears to have several security related programs installed on it by corporate IT). --James James Adams wrote: > > I have recently installed Cygwin version 2.510.2.2 onto a Windows XP > system and when I launch it the first thing I see is this: > > 5 [main] bash 3024 fork: child -1 - CreateProcessA failed, errno 13 > bash: fork: Permission denied > > I get the same message when I try running the ls command: > > bash-3.2$ ls > 9404505 [main] bash 1544 fork: child -1 - CreateProcessA failed, errno 13 > bash: fork: Permission denied > > Can someone suggest what's going wrong, and how I can fix it? > > Thanks in advance for any help. > > --James > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/bash%3A-fork%3A-Permission-denied----how-can-I-fix-this--tf4483481.html#a12787463 Sent from the Cygwin Users mailing list archive at Nabble.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/