hi I'm running xp pro on an ibm t41 after upgrading from w2k where cygwin worked fine. I installed cygwin on the new OS, but without downloading the setup prog to harddisk (i was in a hurry), then suddenly I realised I needed more packages. I'll admit to running a command or two and not seeing anything, but quickly I decided to de-install and then download the set up file properly, pretty anal I know ...
However on the installation the second time around I start getting this error: bash-3.00 # ls 17797832 [main] bash 3468 fork_copy: linked dll/bss pass 0 failed, 0x675000..0x6756A0, done 0, windows pid 2708, Win 32 error 487 bash: fork: resource temporarily unavailable This happens to slmost all commands, where the error is the same except for the first 8 digit number and the windows pid - those two always vary, *even* when it's the same command I type. Reading the archive I tried out a few things: - rebaseall, I have it installed but also gives this error - deleted the program and directory and appropriate registry keys as per some posts I read. Then reinstalled but same behaviour ensued. Now I said almost everything gives an error rending cygwin useless but one or two things *do* work: - echo works, and will pipe to a file, but using cat then does not work - pwd works flawlessly (coo!) - cd works Can anybody diagnose this problem? Thanks in advance /r? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
