From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12898 invoked by alias); 13 Feb 2011 23:06:11 -0000 Received: (qmail 12885 invoked by uid 22791); 13 Feb 2011 23:06:10 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=2.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from colin-baker-v0.ics.uci.edu (HELO colin-baker-v0.ics.uci.edu) (128.195.1.153) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sun, 13 Feb 2011 23:06:03 +0000 Received: from rodan.ics.uci.edu (rodan.ics.uci.edu [128.195.6.9]) by colin-baker-v0.ics.uci.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id p1DN5uOb031255 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Sun, 13 Feb 2011 15:05:56 -0800 Received: (from wayne@localhost) by rodan.ics.uci.edu (8.14.4+Sun/8.13.6/Submit) id p1DN5ulr025016 for cygwin@cygwin.com; Sun, 13 Feb 2011 15:05:56 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 23:06:00 -0000 From: Wayne Hayes To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: "Bad Address" error from random executables causing freezes after "upgrading" to Win7 Message-ID: <20110213230556.GA24797@rodan.ics.uci.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-ICS-MailScanner-Information: Please send mail to helpdesk@ics.uci.edu or more information X-ICS-MailScanner-ID: p1DN5uOb031255 X-ICS-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ICS-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-1.44, required 5, autolearn=disabled, ALL_TRUSTED -1.44) X-ICS-MailScanner-From: wayne@rodan.ics.uci.edu Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2011-02/txt/msg00336.txt.bz2 Folks, I recently upgraded to Windows 7. Before that I was running XP with Cygwin 5.1. (I can't give you the exact version because it's now gone). I have scripts running in the background constantly doing things like downloading news, uploading my current dynamic IP to another machine, running a nigthly unison, etc. Immediately after upgrading to Windows 7, I started seeing very infrequent errors like the following: [... a few minutes of execution without errors ...] /home/wayne/bin/quote: line 8: /usr/bin/date: Bad address [... a few more minutes of execution without errors ... ] /home/wayne/bin/quote: line 74: /usr/bin/tr: Bad address [... a few more minutes of execution without errors ... ] bash: /home/wayne/bin/quote: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Bad address /home/wayne/bin/quote: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable /home/wayne/bin/quote: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable /home/wayne/bin/quote: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable /home/wayne/bin/quote: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable Note that the error is coming from random executables called from my scripts. Now, the "fork: Resource temporarily unavaible" errors I've seen before, ongoing for years, and they're annoying but not critical because execution would always continue. I would also consider these "Bad address" errors not to be crucial except occasionally they cause my script to just freeze up and stop dead. Not good since I need these scripts to be running continuously. The first thing I did was upgrade from Cygwin 5.1 to 6.1, the most recent stable release. It didn't solve the problem. Then I tried re-compiling all my own personal executables. No luck. Then I found a description of a similar problem back in August on this list, http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-08/msg00277.html where Corinna Vinschen suggested getting the most recent developer version. I assumed this means cygwin1.dll. So I went and got the most recent developer version, which is 13 February 2011, and I downloaded and un-tar'd http://cygwin.org/snapshots/cygwin-inst-20110213.tar.bz2 Then I rebooted. No luck. The problem persists. This is what "uname -a" now says: CYGWIN_NT-6.1 pisa 1.7.8s(0.236/5/3) 20110213 16:43:51 i686 Cygwin Has anybody else encountered this problem? Any clue as to what's causing it? -- Wayne Hayes, Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department. 4092 Bren Hall, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697-3435. e-mail: wayne@ics.uci.edu; Office Phone: +1-949-824-1753 "Base 10 sucks. If God had been a decent mathematician, he would've given us 12 fingers instead of 10." - unknown -- 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