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RE: fork: child -1 - CreateProcessA failed, errno 11


Kornél Pál wrote on 23 April 2008 12:31:

> I am using cygwin for comiling Mono on Windows but recently I
> kepp getting error messages:
> 
>   18858 [main] sh 93120 fork: child -1 - CreateProcessA
> failed, errno 11
> 1168010 [main] sh 93120 fork: child -1 - CreateProcessA
> failed, errno 11
> 3176500 [main] sh 93120 fork: child -1 - CreateProcessA
> failed, errno 11
> ../../libtool: line 2513: /usr/bin/sed: Resource temporarily unavailable
> ...
> 
> After that all further process creation fails and while make
> is trying to create new processes, process initialization of other
> non-cygwin processes (like iexplore.exe) fails as well with a MessageBox
> from ntdll.dll.
> 
> This problem occurs after some time of using cygwin but at
> random points.
> 
> It's very weird that after terminating all processes that use cygwin (I
> checked this with Process Explorer) the problem still remains. 

  Which rather suggests it is not a problem with Cygwin (which is a user-mode
application and should not be able to break or otherwise affect separate
processes or the O/S kernel).

> Please let me know what should I do to resolve the problem.

  Identify the BLODA application that has borked your computer:

http://cygwin.com/acronyms#BLODA
http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.bloda

and uninstall it.

    cheers,
      DaveK
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