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Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 09:08:47 +0200
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Subject: Re: Cygwin cygheap base mismatch detected error. Cygwin 1.5.18 XP SP3
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On 9/11/2012 7:57 AM, ranjeet kandari wrote:
> Hi Cygwin Team,

>
> c:\ECloud\i686_win32\bin\emake.exe (6848): *** cygheap base mismatch
> detected - 0x611548E0/0x1A848E0.
>

>
> ERROR EC1018: Unable to load cygwin1.dll: LoadLibrary(cygwin1.dll):
> Invalid access to memory location. (998)
>
>
>
> I have doubled checked. There is only 1 cygwin1.dll file.I even did a
> cygcheck to verify the same.
> I even reinstalled the cygwin and even restarted the laptop, but the
> issue was still there.
>
> Can't figure out what the acutal problem is ?
> But one wierd thing is happening. After doing a system restore, the
> issue seems to be gone.
>
> I guess some issue with the windows memory management.
>
>
>
> Your urgent help would be highly appreciated.
>
>
>   Thanks
> Ranjeet Singh
>
> --

first 1.5.18 is a bit old and unsupported anymore.
Latest version of cygwin dll is 1.7.16


I suggest an upgrade and this reading

> Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
> FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/
> Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html

specifically
http://cygwin.com/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.fixing-fork-failures
http://cygwin.com/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.bloda

You can also install 1.7 in parallel to 1.5 for a test

Regards
Marco


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