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Re: I apologize for mailing you directly problem with rebaseall ?
- From: Brian Ford <ford at vss dot fsi dot com>
- To: Jason Tishler <jason at tishler dot net>
- Cc: Jim Ramberg <ramberg at yahoo dot com>, Cygwin <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 13:27:08 -0500
- Subject: Re: I apologize for mailing you directly problem with rebaseall ?
- References: <000801c46def$ac15aed0$2201000a@usagi> <20040720110434.GA42556@tishler.net>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, Jason Tishler wrote:
> Jim,
>
> Thanks for apologizing, but please post instead of sending private
> email.
>
> On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 05:22:34PM -0700, Jim Ramberg wrote:
> > But I have not seen any solution mentioned for this problem.
> >
> > Recently I have started getting this error whenever I try to start
> > X-windows and kde:
> >
> > 8 [main] ? 3688 cygheap_fixup_in_child: Couldn't reserve 9891528 bytes of space
> > for cygwin's heap (0x616D0000 <0x500000>) in child, Win32 error 487
> >
> > Z:\cygwin\bin\xterm.exe (3688): *** m.AllocationBase 0x0, m.BaseAddress
> > 0x616D0000, m.RegionSize 0x670000, m.State 0x10000
> >
> > I have tried re-installing software; running rebaseall v and
> > defragging the drive. All that it seems to get me is that startx gets
> > farther before yielding the same error but with respect to a different
> > function: e.g. kdeinit
> >
> > Any advice would be appreciated.
> >
> > I am running under windows xp pro and up until yesterday things were
> > working just fine.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Jim Ramberg
> >
> > (* I saw this problem mentioned for earlier versions of cygwin; but
> > w/o a solution )
> >
> > I attached a cygcheck s output.
> >
> > I have 1250MB in VM.
>
> Sorry, but I have never used kde under Cygwin so I don't know how to
> help you. Maybe someone on the list does?
>
Try a "Windows Update". All reports of this issue to date that I am aware
of have been solved by that, or rebaseall.
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Brian Ford
Senior Realtime Software Engineer
VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems
FlightSafety International
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