X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <475BABD0.9040807@pacific.net.sg> Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2007 16:48:16 +0800 From: Erich Dollansky User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070826) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Almost nothing works for me in Cygwin 1.5.24-2 References: <000001c839ff$388f7ab0$040ca8c0 AT WynandBuilding> In-Reply-To: <000001c839ff$388f7ab0$040ca8c0@WynandBuilding> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Hi, I have had once problems like this too. The solution was very simple. I reinstalled from a different mirror. Erich Rob Larkins wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > When I run Cygwin it loads normally; if I exit Cygwin immediately I logout > just fine. If I do pretty much anything else, it breaks. > > For example, if I issue the ls command nothing happens other than getting > the regular bash-3.2$ prompt. If I try to exit after giving that command, I > get an error like: > > 58214 [main] bash 4792 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp before > initialization, retry 10, exit code 0x1000000, errno 11 > bash-3.2$ 301101491 [main] bash 4792 child_info::sync: wait failed, pid > 4224, Win32 error 0 > > After several seconds the error repeats: > > 301104925 [main] bash 4792 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp before > initialization, retry 10, exit code 0x1000000, errno 11 > bash-3.2$ 603135901 [main] bash 4792 child_info::sync: wait failed, pid > 4508, Win32 error 0 > 603136105 [main] bash 4792 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp before > initialization, retry 10, exit code 0x1000000, errno 11 > bash-3.2$ 907162420 [main] bash 4792 child_info::sync: wait failed, pid > 1828, Win32 error 0 > 907164456 [main] bash 4792 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp before > initialization, retry 10, exit code 0x1000000, errno 11 > bash-3.2$ 1215200040 [main] bash 4792 child_info::sync: wait failed, pid > 5520, Win32 error 0 > 1215200265 [main] bash 4792 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp before > initialization, retry 10, exit code 0x1000000, errno 11 > bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable > bash-3.2$ > > The same thing happens when I issue a command other than ls, like "clear". > > Searching the Cygwin ML archive I found a thread about a similar looking > error: http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2005-04/msg00624.html > > Although that error was fixed in a snapshot build back in 2005, DaveK had > recommended using strace from the console to get more info, so I did and I'm > attaching the resultant log. > > - -Rob > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) > > iD8DBQFHWk72+KyO/KUp2FYRAiZrAKCdvlP0axB99oC90FtpQHtpC9WlRACfRjKN > Ul0s4rgMCbK0Vku3MxzCYc4= > =nvCZ > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > -- > 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/ -- 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/