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From: "Brian Wilson" <wilson AT ds DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Incomplete downloads reported across several mirrors
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 08:43:08 -0400
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By any chance, when you start a Cygwin shell do you occasionally get errors 
like "4 [main] bash 15592 C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe: *** fatal error - couldn't 
allocate heap, Win32 error 487, base 0x6D0000, top 0x740000, reserve_size 
454656, allocsize 458752, page_const 4096"?  This is an error I've run into 
several times and it often causes problems with setup updates.

The best advise I can offer is to try opening 20 or 30 shells at a time, 
several times, then close the windows until you don't get a lot of these 
errors.  Then, quickly, run the setup script again.  It doesn't hurt to keep 
opening and closing a few shell windows while the setup is running.  You can 
also try the solution in the thread "1.7.1-1 Install freeze of Cygwin post 
install.sh" which is a little drastic; but sometimes rebooting will reduce the 
frequency of this error occuring.

This error has been reported on several threads previously, however I've never 
seen a good solution.

Sincerely,

Brian S. Wilson
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---------- Original Message -----------
From: Gregg Levine <gregg DOT drwho8 AT gmail DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Sent: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 04:03:20 -0400
Subject: Re: Incomplete downloads reported across several mirrors

> On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Dan Platt <> wrote:
> >  <cygwin.somos <at> xoxy.net> writes:
> >
> >>
> >> I might suggest someone checking if their hard drive happens to be
> >> full or nearly so.
> >>
> >>
> >
> > I'm having the same problem since Tuesday - plenty of disk space for it.
> >
> >
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> Hello!
> Well folks its now 4AM EDT on the Saturday since this problem has
> started. My update routines all ended up the same way. However it
> seems the program did indeed succeed in retrieving everything after
> all.
> 
> The question as to why it is happening still remains.
> 
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