fork: child -1 - CreateProcessA failed, errno 11

Kornél Pál kornelpal@gmail.com
Wed Apr 23 14:27:00 GMT 2008


Hi,

Thank you very much for the information, and please forgive me for this 
reply if I have the problem described in the FAQ.

I only have Windows Defender installed from the list but I am using it with 
cygwin for more than a year without any problems.

Note that according to the error message CreateProcessA is failing rather 
than cygwin's fork implementation and other processes not related to cygwin 
start fail to initialize (CreateProcess fails) after cygwin starts failing.

Have anybody else experienced this problem?

Kornél

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Korn"
To: "'Kornél Pál'"
Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 2:27 PM
Subject: RE: fork: child -1 - CreateProcessA failed, errno 11


Kornél Pál wrote on 23 April 2008 12:31:

> I am using cygwin for comiling Mono on Windows but recently I
> kepp getting error messages:
>
>   18858 [main] sh 93120 fork: child -1 - CreateProcessA
> failed, errno 11
> 1168010 [main] sh 93120 fork: child -1 - CreateProcessA
> failed, errno 11
> 3176500 [main] sh 93120 fork: child -1 - CreateProcessA
> failed, errno 11
> ../../libtool: line 2513: /usr/bin/sed: Resource temporarily unavailable
> ...
>
> After that all further process creation fails and while make
> is trying to create new processes, process initialization of other
> non-cygwin processes (like iexplore.exe) fails as well with a MessageBox
> from ntdll.dll.
>
> This problem occurs after some time of using cygwin but at
> random points.
>
> It's very weird that after terminating all processes that use cygwin (I
> checked this with Process Explorer) the problem still remains.

  Which rather suggests it is not a problem with Cygwin (which is a 
user-mode
application and should not be able to break or otherwise affect separate
processes or the O/S kernel).

> Please let me know what should I do to resolve the problem.

  Identify the BLODA application that has borked your computer:

http://cygwin.com/acronyms#BLODA
http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.bloda

and uninstall it.

    cheers,
      DaveK
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