1.7.1-1 Install freeze of Cygwin post install.sh

["Brian Wilson" <wilson at ds dot net>]

I'm running a Dell XPS (single core 3GHz processor) with WinXP SP3 with latest 
patches.  My system has 4GB memory installed and 20GB free disk space 
available.

I had 1.5 installed and working well.  I tried to upgrade to 1.7 and received 
many errors and could not complete the installation because the installation 
appeared to stop working.  I rebooted several times and retried the update 
each time with no success.  I manually removed all cygwin files and cleaned 
the registry.  I tried downloading the setup and reinstalling the base 1.7 
release.  Everything goes find until I get to the /etc/postinstall/000-cygwin-
post-install.sh step and the progress bars stop showing any progress (i.e. 
appear to stop working).

I went to c:\cygwin\var\log\setup.log.postinstallXa01348 and looked at this 
file.  It contains:

  5 [main] bash 508 C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe: *** fatal error - couldn't 
allocate heap, Win32 error 487, base 0x6D0000, top 0x730000, reserve_size 
389120, allocsize 393216, page_const 4096
      5 [main] bash 2216 child_info::sync: wait failed, pid 508, Win32 error 0
    909 [main] bash 2216 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp before 
initialization, retry 0, exit code 0x1000000, errno 11

I have no choice but to cancel the install and retry; but it never completes 
and always fails at the same point.  Does anyone know what this means and how 
to fix the problem?  If it's something stupid I've done; please point out the 
issue.
Sincerely,

Brian S. Wilson
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