Re: Cygwin 2.6.1 bash fork errors upon starting mintty

[Keith Christian <keith1christian@gmail.com>]

Brian,

Thanks, with all Cygwin processes stopped, opening an ash.exe window
via start/run, then cd /bin and running rebaseall fixed the errors
present when I start mintty.

Keith

On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 9:43 AM, Brian Inglis
<Brian.Inglis@systematicsw.ab.ca> wrote:
> On 2016-12-26 09:19, Keith Christian wrote:
>> I created a cygcheck -s -r -v file to attach, but sourceware dot org
>> blocked it
>
> Sourceware blocks all non-text emails - see below.
>
>> Updated Cygwin this morning, getting fork errors (even after
>> rebooting, (although reboots should not matter)) when starting
>> mintty:
>>       0 [main] bash 6072 child_info_fork::abort:
>> C:\cygwin\bin\cygncursesw-10.dll: Loaded to different address:
>> parent(0x75260000) != child(0x760000)
>> -bash: fork: retry: Resource temporarily unavailable
>>       1 [main] bash 11040 child_info_fork::abort:
>> C:\cygwin\bin\cygncursesw-10.dll: Loaded to different address:
>> parent(0x75260000) != child(0xEE0000)
>> -bash: fork: retry: No child processes
>
> Run "rebase-trigger fullrebase", shut down *ALL* Cygwin processes,
> download and run Setup.
>
>> CYGWIN_NT-10.0-WOW Keith-PC 2.6.1(0.305/5/3) 2016-12-16 11:50 i686 Cygwin
>
> If a full rebase does not fix it, you may have to uninstall some
> packages using Setup, and rerun the above process. You have limited
> address space under Cygwin 32 and may have to move to Cygwin 64.
>
>> Unfortunately, the cygcheck attachment was blocked by sourceware dot
>> org. What to do now?
>
> Ensure that your email is sent as text only and the attachment is sent
> as text - you may have to add .txt to cygcheck output file name to
> have it handled properly by your mail client.
>
> --
> Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
>
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