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RE: fork: child -1 - CreateProcessA failed, errno 11
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: 'Kornél Pál' <kornelpal at gmail dot com>, <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:27:15 +0100
- Subject: RE: fork: child -1 - CreateProcessA failed, errno 11
- References: <000501c8a535$7eb4b180$0100a8c0@kornelpal.hu>
Kornél Pál wrote on 23 April 2008 12:31:
> I am using cygwin for comiling Mono on Windows but recently I
> kepp getting error messages:
>
> 18858 [main] sh 93120 fork: child -1 - CreateProcessA
> failed, errno 11
> 1168010 [main] sh 93120 fork: child -1 - CreateProcessA
> failed, errno 11
> 3176500 [main] sh 93120 fork: child -1 - CreateProcessA
> failed, errno 11
> ../../libtool: line 2513: /usr/bin/sed: Resource temporarily unavailable
> ...
>
> After that all further process creation fails and while make
> is trying to create new processes, process initialization of other
> non-cygwin processes (like iexplore.exe) fails as well with a MessageBox
> from ntdll.dll.
>
> This problem occurs after some time of using cygwin but at
> random points.
>
> It's very weird that after terminating all processes that use cygwin (I
> checked this with Process Explorer) the problem still remains.
Which rather suggests it is not a problem with Cygwin (which is a user-mode
application and should not be able to break or otherwise affect separate
processes or the O/S kernel).
> Please let me know what should I do to resolve the problem.
Identify the BLODA application that has borked your computer:
http://cygwin.com/acronyms#BLODA
http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.bloda
and uninstall it.
cheers,
DaveK
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