1.7.10 cygrunsrv.exe fails with "fork: 11, Resource temporarily unavailable"

[Ulf-Dietrich Braumann]

Hi,

I run in a similar problem after I have updated cygwin1.dll from 1.7.9 to 
1.7.11 on Win2k3 64bit. When I now try to start sshd as a service

C:\>net start sshd
The CYGWIN sshd service is starting.
The CYGWIN sshd service could not be started.

A system error has occurred.

System error 1067 has occurred.

The process terminated unexpectedly.


In the windows event viewer I found

"... starting service `sshd' failed: fork: 11, Resource temporarily 
unavailable."

Inspired by Carl Soderstrom's solution for a similar problem I have tried 
a program-individual heap size setting using

$ peflags --cygwin-heap=1024 /usr/sbin/sshd.exe

but without success. Unfortunately, since we have now cygwin1.dll in 
version 1.7.11 I can no longer simply roll back to 1.7.9 (where the heap 
setting was done in the previous global way).

Any hints welcome - Ulf-Dietrich


On Feb 16, Carl Soderstrom wrote:

> I want to make sure my solution ends up in the archives for the benefit 
> of other people.
> 
> ...
> 
> > http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-maxmem.html
> 
> Thank you, that was helpful. In the end what seems to have fixed it was 
> to run an ash.exe shell (launched directly from the Start -> Run 
> dialog), run 'cd /bin;PATH=. rebaseall' in that, then re-launch the 
> Cygwin terminal, run the following commands:
> 
> $ peflags --cygwin-heap=1024 /usr/bin/run.exe
> $ peflags --cygwin-heap=1024 /usr/bin/cygrunsrv.exe
> 
> I do not know if all those steps were necessary, but the programs seem 
> to work correctly now.

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