Re: fork process error in cygwin 1.7.16

[marco atzeri <marco dot atzeri at gmail dot com>]

On 8/31/2012 9:08 AM, Prakash Babu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am seeing the following "fork process error" while using the latest
> cygwin version (1.7.16) on Windows 2003 Server(64 bit)
>
> $ uname -a
> CYGWIN_NT-5.2-WOW64 <abc.example.com> 1.7.16(0.262/5/3) 2012-07-20
> 22:55 i686 Cygwin
>
> $ sh.exe
>
> $ sh.exe
>        0 [main] sh 2824 fork: child -1 - forked process 3192 died
> unexpectedly, retry 0, exit code -1073741819, errno 11
> sh: fork: retry: Resource temporarily unavailable
> 1008177 [main] sh 2824 fork: child -1 - forked process 2508 died
> unexpectedly, retry 0, exit code -1073741819, errno 11
> sh: fork: retry: Resource temporarily unavailable
>
> The first launch of sh.exe process worked fine. From the second launch
> i am seeing this error.
> I see a similar issue reported in thread
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-05/msg00167.html for cygwin
> 1.7.13/1.7.14
> Is the fix for this issue available in cygwin 1.7.16
>
> thanks,
> Prakash
>
> --

likely a rebase error.
http://cygwin.com/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.fixing-fork-failures

if rebaseall does not work the first time, you can also try to
remove /etc/rebase.db.i386 to force a complete rebase instead of an 
incremental one.

see also
> Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html

Regards
Marco


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