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Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 11:34:18 -0400
From: "Larry Hall \(Cygwin\)" <reply-to-list-only-lh AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Cygwin 1.7 problems on Windows XP SP2
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On 8/20/2010 11:28 AM, Baldur Gislason wrote:
> Hi, I recently installed the latest version of cygwin after using previous
> (1.5) versions without problems. Almost nothing works on 1.7 and even after
> reinstalling my machine
> I still have the same problem. My machine runs Windows XP SP2.
> My install.log.full has a lot of errors like this one:
> 3879146 [main] bash 3716 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp before
> initialization, retry 0, exit code 0x100, errno 11
> 4 [main] bash 3872 C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe: *** fatal error - couldn't
> allocate heap, Win32 error 487, base 0x6D0000, top 0x740000, reserve_size
> 454656, allocsize 458752, page_const 4096
> This doesn't only happen with bash, it was also happening with other apps
> such as rsync before I reinstalled the operating system. Any ideas or hints
> for diagnosing this? Can I acquire an older setup.exe and try installing a
> previous version of cygwin? Full log is at
> http://foo.is/~baldur/setup.log.full.gz

If you look in the email archives for messages with similar complaints,
you'll find that this kind of problem is most commonly the result of one
of two things:

   1. You need to install the rebase package, read its README, and run
      rebaseall as prescribed.

   2. <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#BLODA>

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A: Yes.
> Q: Are you sure?
>> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
>>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?

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