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Re: Crashes with new cygwin-1.5.8-1 on XP


Hi,

I had these problems also, I installed all Windows XP patches (yes, Windows
patches, dont laugh !) and voila, everything works again. If someone has an
explanantion, he is welcome...


"Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID)" <BBuchbinder@niaid.nih.gov> wrote in message
F76C9B2DA2FC4C4CA0A18E288BBCBCF70361F33D@nihexchange24.nih.gov">news:F76C9B2DA2FC4C4CA0A18E288BBCBCF70361F33D@nihexchange24.nih.gov...
> On XP, starting from a cmd.exe prompt:
>
> c:\cygwin\bin> bash
>       6 [main] ? 3816 init_cheap: Couldn't reserve space for cygwin's
heap,
> Win32 error 487
> c:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe (3816): *** AllocationBase 0x0, BaseAddress
> 0x616E0000, RegionSize 0x1AA0000, State 0x10000
>
> c:\cygwin\bin> cygpath
>       3 [main] ? 4072 init_cheap: Couldn't reserve space for cygwin's
heap,
> Win32 error 487
> c:\cygwin\bin\cygpath.exe (4072): *** AllocationBase 0x0, BaseAddress
> 0x616E0000, RegionSize 0x1AA0000, State 0x10000
>
> On a different machine (a laptop), cygpath crashes but bash does not.
>
> gawk, pwd, perl, vim, sed, and tr do not crash.
>
> When I roll back to 1.5.5-1 everything works.  (prev in setup.ini was
> 1.5.5-1 instead of 1.5.7-1, and after trying several time to get setup to
> install 1.5.7-1 out success, I gave up.)
>
> - Barry
>
>
>


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