X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-Mail-Handler: Dyn Standard SMTP by Dyn X-Report-Abuse-To: abuse AT dyndns DOT com (see http://www.dyndns.com/services/sendlabs/outbound_abuse.html for abuse reporting information) X-MHO-User: U2FsdGVkX1+Z69IQL14PaoByy1lB9a8s Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2013 13:47:56 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Prefork Error 161 Message-ID: <20130216184756.GB3969@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <1360966126 DOT 83695 DOT YahooMailNeo AT web125605 DOT mail DOT ne1 DOT yahoo DOT com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1360966126.83695.YahooMailNeo@web125605.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) 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 On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 02:08:46PM -0800, Ian Pellew wrote: >After having Cywin on my systems for many years with no problems and in more recent years with Xampp, I now have a problem. > > >I think my Cygwin setup is hitting some limit within the Cygwin dll. > >Problem when starting an up to date cygwin session on XP:- ><<-EOF >? 1 [main] bash 5372 C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe: *** fatal error - prefork: couldn't create pipe process trackerWin32 error 161 >? 1 [main] bash 5760 C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe: *** fatal error - prefork: couldn't create pipe process trackerWin32 error 161 >? 1 [main] bash 4428 C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe: *** fatal error - prefork: couldn't create pipe process trackerWin32 error 161 >This is /etc/profile >This is ~/.bash_profile >Xp man ls >????? 3 [main] sh 3952 C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe: *** fatal error - prefork: couldn't create pipe process trackerWin32 error 161 >(END) >EOF You've got some BLODA on your system, quite possibly a virus. http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#BLODA error 161 is "bad pathname" and that's not an error that you should ever get in the situation of creating a pipe. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple