Re: fork fails

[Larry Hall <lh-no-personal-replies-please at cygwin dot com>]

At 10:19 AM 9/10/2004, you wrote:
>I installed Cygwin over the net in 2004-09-10 to WinXP
>where I am using Administrator account and everything
>seems to work just fine. However, with the same
>installation procedure on Win2000 where I'm just in
>the Users group I get:
>
>    440 [main] zsh 1432 fork_copy: linked dll data/bss
>pass 0 failed,
>0x542000..
>0x5427F0, done 0, windows pid 1960, Win32 error 487
>/etc/profile:33: fork failed: resource temporarily
>unavailable
>  92177 [main] zsh 1432 fork_copy: linked dll data/bss
>pass 0 failed,
>0x542000..
>0x5427F0, done 0, windows pid 316, Win32 error 487
>/home/ttn/.zshenv:9: fork failed: resource temporarily
>unavailable
> 246057 [main] zsh 1432 fork_copy: linked dll data/bss
>pass 0 failed,
>0x542000..
>0x5427F0, done 0, windows pid 852, Win32 error 487
>/home/ttn/.zshrc:23: fork failed: resource temporarily
>unavailable
> 290951 [main] zsh 1432 fork_copy: linked dll data/bss
>pass 0 failed,
>0x542000..
>0x5427F0, done 0, windows pid 2644, Win32 error 487
>/home/ttn/.zlogin:6: fork failed: resource temporarily
>unavailable
>
>This happen when I replaced "bash --login -i" in
>cygwin.bat with "zsh -l" and ran it. Shell (zsh)
>built- in commands work, but everything else fails
>with same symptoms. Mysteriously, using "bash --login
>-i" works just fine and also if I start zsh from bash,
>also zsh is working then!
>
>:-O


Apparently you don't remember this error on the Windows
2000 machine and what you did to fix it then. ;-)

I should point out that this is a perfect question for 
the email archives.  You would have seen plenty of references
and the likely solution.

Install the 'rebase' package.  Run 'rebaseall'.  A simpler 
fix you couldn't ask for. :-)


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