OpenSSH: 5791 [main] sshd 9288! spawn_guts: CreateDesktop failed, Win32 error 8

OpenSSH: 5791 [main] sshd 9288! spawn_guts: CreateDesktop failed, Win32 error 8

[Carsten.Porzler]

Dear Cygwin community,

unfortunately we got on some of our Windows 2003 servers this error 
message while logging on by using OpenSSH

   5791 [main] sshd 9288! spawn_guts: CreateDesktop failed, Win32 error 8

This error message occurs after the server has been rebooted.

If log on once at the Windows console as a user with local admin 
privileges, also the SSH logon works again.

We are using Cygwin CYGWIN_NT-5.2 d20of001 1.7.0(0.200/5/3) 2009-02-20 
17:20 i686 Cygwin and OpenSSH 5.1.

Does anybody know the reason for this failure?

Thanks a lot in advance and best regards

Carsten Porzler


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Re: OpenSSH: 5791 [main] sshd 9288! spawn_guts: CreateDesktop failed, Win32 error 8

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

On 8/11/2010 10:14 AM, Carsten.Porzler@spb.de wrote:
> Dear Cygwin community,
>
> unfortunately we got on some of our Windows 2003 servers this error
> message while logging on by using OpenSSH
>
>     5791 [main] sshd 9288! spawn_guts: CreateDesktop failed, Win32 error 8
>
> This error message occurs after the server has been rebooted.
>
> If log on once at the Windows console as a user with local admin
> privileges, also the SSH logon works again.
>
> We are using Cygwin CYGWIN_NT-5.2 d20of001 1.7.0(0.200/5/3) 2009-02-20
> 17:20 i686 Cygwin and OpenSSH 5.1.
>
> Does anybody know the reason for this failure?

It's really not clear to me from the above whether you're dealing with
domain users in the failing case but if so, please read the following
FAQ:

<http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.sshd-in-domain>

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Re: OpenSSH: 5791 [main] sshd 9288! spawn_guts: CreateDesktop failed, Win32 error 8

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Aug 11 16:14, Carsten.Porzler@spb.de wrote:
> Dear Cygwin community,
> 
> unfortunately we got on some of our Windows 2003 servers this error 
> message while logging on by using OpenSSH
> 
>    5791 [main] sshd 9288! spawn_guts: CreateDesktop failed, Win32 error 8

  bash$ net helpmsg 8

  Not enough storage is available to process this command.

This is a good hint.  I didn't see this for quite some time.  I can't
tell you why that occurs in your case, but not generally.  But there's a
potential workaround: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/126962


Corinna

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Re: OpenSSH: 5791 [main] sshd 9288! spawn_guts: CreateDesktop failed, Win32 error 8

[roadworrier]

I saw this problem "spawn_guts: CreateDesktop failed, Win32 error 8" listed
in many Google results with some suggestions but without any conclusive
solutions. 

My 2003 Server has 16gb of RAM, and only about 10gb were in use, so the
issue wasn't a lack of RAM. However, I went and quit some programs that use
many USER and GDI objects (Photoshop, Illustrator, TOAD (and Parallels for
good measure)) and then I was able to ssh in to my server without making any
changes to cygwin configuration, and without restarting sshd or anything.

- Stefan



Carsten.Porzler wrote:
> 
> Dear Cygwin community,
> 
> unfortunately we got on some of our Windows 2003 servers this error 
> message while logging on by using OpenSSH
> 
>    5791 [main] sshd 9288! spawn_guts: CreateDesktop failed, Win32 error 8
> 
> This error message occurs after the server has been rebooted.
> 
> If log on once at the Windows console as a user with local admin 
> privileges, also the SSH logon works again.
> 
> We are using Cygwin CYGWIN_NT-5.2 d20of001 1.7.0(0.200/5/3) 2009-02-20 
> 17:20 i686 Cygwin and OpenSSH 5.1.
> 
> Does anybody know the reason for this failure?
> 
> Thanks a lot in advance and best regards
> 
> Carsten Porzler
> 
> 
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Re: OpenSSH: 5791 [main] sshd 9288! spawn_guts: CreateDesktop failed, Win32 error 8

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Jun 15 07:11, roadworrier wrote:
> 
> I saw this problem "spawn_guts: CreateDesktop failed, Win32 error 8" listed
> in many Google results with some suggestions but without any conclusive
> solutions. 
> 
> My 2003 Server has 16gb of RAM, and only about 10gb were in use, so the
> issue wasn't a lack of RAM. However, I went and quit some programs that use
> many USER and GDI objects (Photoshop, Illustrator, TOAD (and Parallels for
> good measure)) and then I was able to ssh in to my server without making any
> changes to cygwin configuration, and without restarting sshd or anything.
> 
> - Stefan
> 
> 
> 
> Carsten.Porzler wrote:
> > 
> > Dear Cygwin community,
> > 
> > unfortunately we got on some of our Windows 2003 servers this error 
> > message while logging on by using OpenSSH
> > 
> >    5791 [main] sshd 9288! spawn_guts: CreateDesktop failed, Win32 error 8
> > 
> > This error message occurs after the server has been rebooted.
> > 
> > If log on once at the Windows console as a user with local admin 
> > privileges, also the SSH logon works again.
> > 
> > We are using Cygwin CYGWIN_NT-5.2 d20of001 1.7.0(0.200/5/3) 2009-02-20 
> > 17:20 i686 Cygwin and OpenSSH 5.1.
> > 
> > Does anybody know the reason for this failure?

That's probably related to the maximum size of the system heap.  Have a
look into the "Remarks" section in the MSDN man page of CreateDesktop: 

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms682124%28VS.85%29.aspx

It explains the registry setting which can be changed to raise the
system heap size.  For services the third value of the SharedSection
option is relevant.


Corinna

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