cygwin fork error

Posted by Techie Help on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Techie Help
Published on 2012-11-30T11:05:34Z Indexed on 2014/08/24 10:23 UTC
Read the original article Hit count: 156

Filed under:

I have set up a new PC and installed cygwin on it. Its windows 7 pro.

Whenever I try to build our application on it, I get the following error:

 0 [main] sh 3472 child_info_fork::abort: can't commit memory for stack 0x28A000(90112), Win32 error 487

/bin/sh: fork: retry: Resource temporarily unavailable
      0 [main] sh 3220 child_info_fork::abort: can't commit memory for stack 0x28A000(90112), Win32 error 487

/bin/sh: fork: retry: Resource temporarily unavailable
      0 [main] sh 4896 child_info_fork::abort: can't commit memory for stack 0x28A000(90112), Win32 error 487

/bin/sh: fork: retry: Resource temporarily unavailable
      0 [main] sh 4884 child_info_fork::abort: can't commit memory for stack 0x28A000(90112), Win32 error 487

It prints this few times and then dies.

I have already done a lot of research on this problem. I have already uninstalled and installed cygwin more than 5 times. Done rebaseall everytime I installed it. Checked for possible BLODA, I had notron antivirus, which I have removed.

As an aside, I tried posting this question to cygwin mailing list after subscribing to it. But my mail does not appear on the list. I suppose they want address to be munged and I have no clue how to do it. supposedly, they are treating it as a spam. Any idea how I can post to the mailing list there.

© Super User or respective owner

Related posts about cygwin