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Re: Cygwin crashes when bash is called repeatedly from a .bat file


Hi,

Don't know if this will help, but with regard to the user32.dll
initialization error popup, take a look at the MS kb article
Q142676.

Regards,
Doug Wyatt

> I have written about this problem before, but am still encountering
> the same errors.  I am using setup.exe version 2.29 to load
> cygwin-1_1_6-1.tar.gz and bash-2_04-4.tar.gz.
> 
> I have a DOS script that has run reliably for over a year.  I had to add
> some functionality that DOS couldn't support, so I created Unix shell
> scripts to do the additional functions, then modified the DOS script to
> execute the Unix shell scripts by using bash.  An example of the
> addition to the DOS script would be:
>    bash <Unix shell script name> <arguments>
> 
> Everything works for several hours, but then Cygwin crashes.  The DOS
> script can no longer call the Unix shell scripts and I cannot start Cygwin
> from the desktop icon.  In both cases I see an error message
> "bash: fork: permission denied".  Sometimes I will get the message
> window saying that the initialization of the dynamic link library
> C:\winnt\system32\USER32.dll failed.  To recover I have to uninstall
> Cygwin, reboot my machine and reinstall Cygwin.  
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Craig Hayes
> Lockheed Martin Corporation
> (719)277-4507  craig.hayes@lmco.com
> 
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