From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29104 invoked by alias); 21 Sep 2009 03:00:19 -0000 Received: (qmail 29089 invoked by uid 22791); 21 Sep 2009 03:00:17 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from lo.gmane.org (HELO lo.gmane.org) (80.91.229.12) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 03:00:11 +0000 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1MpZ8K-00005B-NQ for cygwin@cygwin.com; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 05:00:08 +0200 Received: from 189.102.154.40 ([189.102.154.40]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 05:00:08 +0200 Received: from cestrauss by 189.102.154.40 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 05:00:08 +0200 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Cesar Strauss Subject: Re: [1.7] gvim "Cannot fork" error Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 03:00:00 -0000 Message-ID: References: <20090921022457.GA32232@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) In-Reply-To: <20090921022457.GA32232@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> X-IsSubscribed: yes 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: 2009-09/txt/msg00473.txt.bz2 Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 04:14:11PM +0200, Fr??d??ric Bron wrote: >>> I believe it worked fine before (until a few days ago). I updated to >>> latest cygwin by running setup-1.7.exe. >>> (Just running setup -> click several next... ??-> finish) >>> >>> And now if I do >>> ?? ??/bin/gvim >>> ?? ??:!ls >>> >>> I see a message 'Cannot fork' in the gvim window. >>> And see >>> ?? ??2 [main] gvim 2092 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp >>> ?? ??before initialization, retry 0, exit code 0xC0000005, errno 11 >>> in the cygterm console window. >>> >>> If I run '/bin/gvim -f' (foreground), then '!ls' works fine. >> Exactly the same problem after recent update: Cannot fork and in the console >> -196297461 [main] gvim 5284 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp >> before initialization, retry 0, exit code 0xC0000005, errno 11 > > This should be fixed in the next Cygwin snapshot and, subsequently, in the > next release. > > If you could test this and confirm that the snapshot fixes the problem I'll > roll a new release. It turns out to be a pretty serious bug. > > http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ > I am not the OP, but I could reproduce the problem, and I confirm it is fixed on today's snapshot (20090920). Furthermore, it solves another issue I posted myself: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2009-09/msg00051.html Many thanks! Regards, Cesar -- 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