Re: Error 29 on Vista

["Larry Hall (Cygwin X)" <reply-to-list-only-lh-x at cygwin dot com>]

Larry Hall (Cygwin X) wrote:
> Fork failures are typically caused by one of two issues:
>
>   1. Buggy firewalls, virus-scanners, spyware proggies, etc.
>   2. DLL address space collisions
>
> The former can be solved by uninstalling all such junkware (no, you can't
> generally just disable this stuff) and trying again.  If it works, then
> you know you need to report a bug (to the junkware provider, not to 
> Cygwin).
>  The latter can be solved by installing the 'rebase' package, reading
> '/usr/share/doc/Cygwin/rebase-2.4.3.README', and following the 
> instructions.
>
> Win32 error 487 is a classic indicator of problem 2 above.  I'd recommend
> starting there.  You can check the main list for lots of back-story to the
> rebase issue if you're interested.

I somehow missed that you were working on Vista.  You'll also want to
see:

<http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-11/msg00059.html>

You can ignore references to snapshots.  If you're running the latest
Cygwin release via 'setup.exe', you're at the same level as the snapshots
at the time the message was sent.

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