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That message means Cygwin's fork() is failing. Nothing mintty can do about
that. It's
a common occurrence on Vista and 7, which is to do with Windows randomising the
placement of DLLs in memory. The cure is 'rebaseall':
1. shutdown all Cygwin processes and services
2. start ash (do not use bash or rxvt)
3. execute /bin/rebaseall (in the ash window)
See /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/rebase-3.0.1.README for lots more on that. If it
doesn't
help, an entry on the "Big List Of Dodgy Apps" could be to blame:
http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda
Original comment by andy.koppe
on 3 Apr 2010 at 6:03
Ahh thanks for that info. I felt kind bad accusing mintty, which is awesome by
the
way, but it seemed to be the only part that was acting odd. Your explanation
also
solved a problem I was having with subversion. Migrating to win7 has been less
than
pleasant. Non-functioning, unreliable cygwin would be something of a deal
breaker
for me. Windows needs sudo...
Original comment by herrn...@gmail.com
on 4 Apr 2010 at 7:37
No worries, I can see why that would have looked like a mintty issue. Perhaps I
should
put a pointer to rebaseall in the error message.
Original comment by andy.koppe
on 4 Apr 2010 at 10:14
That sounds like a good idea. I've been using cygwin for years and never heard
of or
had the need to use rebaseall.
Original comment by herrn...@gmail.com
on 5 Apr 2010 at 6:06
Added pointer to rebaseall in r823 on 0.6 branch.
Original comment by andy.koppe
on 14 Apr 2010 at 5:24
Original issue reported on code.google.com by
herrn...@gmail.com
on 3 Apr 2010 at 12:34