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On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 04:15:54PM +0100, Andy Koppe wrote:
>On 26 June 2010 13:43, Brian Wilson wrote:
>>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.
>
>Sacrificing a goat might help as well.

I'd start out with chickens and move up to goats only as a last resort.

>Then again, it might not. Have you tried 'rebaseall' and checked your
>system against the Big List Of Dodgy Apps at
>http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda?

Right.  rebaseall is the right way to deal with these issue which,
coincidentally enough, would have absolutely nothing to do with an
"incomplete download".

cgf

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