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Re: Incomplete downloads reported across several mirrors


On 26 June 2010 13:43, Brian Wilson wrote:
> By any chance, when you start a Cygwin shell do you occasionally get errors
> like "4 [main] bash 15592 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"? ÂThis is an error I've run into
> several times and it often causes problems with setup updates.
>
> The best advise I can offer is to try opening 20 or 30 shells at a time,
> several times, then close the windows until you don't get a lot of these
> errors. ÂThen, quickly, run the setup script again. ÂIt doesn't hurt to keep
> opening and closing a few shell windows while the setup is running.

Sacrificing a goat might help as well.

Then again, it might not. Have you tried 'rebaseall' and checked your
system against the Big List Of Dodgy Apps at
http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda?

Andy

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