On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 02:08:46PM -0800, Ian Pellew wrote: >After having Cywin on my systems for many years with no problems and in more >recent years with Xampp, I now have a problem. > > >I think my Cygwin setup is hitting some limit within the Cygwin dll. > >Problem when starting an up to date cygwin session on XP:- ><<-EOF >? 1 [main] bash 5372 C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe: *** fatal error - prefork: >couldn't create pipe process trackerWin32 error 161 >? 1 [main] bash 5760 C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe: *** fatal error - prefork: >couldn't create pipe process trackerWin32 error 161 >? 1 [main] bash 4428 C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe: *** fatal error - prefork: >couldn't create pipe process trackerWin32 error 161 >This is /etc/profile >This is ~/.bash_profile >Xp man ls >????? 3 [main] sh 3952 C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe: *** fatal error - prefork: >couldn't create pipe process trackerWin32 error 161 >(END) >EOF
You've got some BLODA on your system, quite possibly a virus. http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#BLODA error 161 is "bad pathname" and that's not an error that you should ever get in the situation of creating a pipe. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
