I fixed this yesterday. Just for the record: Symantec Endpoint Protection, and they had updated it the night before my troubles began. Can't help that, I'm at work. But they ditched SEP yesterday and my cygwin fixed automagically, yay!
Nowadays I think anti-viruses cost more on the long run than viruses would. They can't detect a 0-day virus, but they do slow down and stop a lot of legitimate stuff. But for us who are chained to MS, Cygwin is an oasis in the middle of the desert. On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 9:44 AM, Ricardo Urbina wrote: > On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 4:03 AM, Reini Urban wrote: >> 2010/4/9 Ricardo Urbina: >>> Hi. Last tuesday I updated my Cygwin installation from 1.7.1 to 1.7.4. >>> And then I started getting these errors when running a perl script: >>> >>> % perlscript >>> 3 [main] sh 11716 C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe: *** fatal error - >>> couldn't allocate heap, Win32 error 487, base 0x850000, top 0x890000, >>> reserve_size 258048, allocsize 262144, page_const 4096 >>> 2 [main] sh 10172 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp >>> before initialization, retry 0, exit code 0x100, errno 11 >> >> First I need a http://cygwin.com/problems.html report >> >> Second, you can try a lower rebase address, as pointed out in >> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-04/msg00540.html > > I didn't know there was a perlrebase. It didn't change a thing. I'm > starting to think it's not a cygwin issue: after perlrebase, it ran > just fine once. Then the whole system crashed. It didn't work again > after rebooting. Anyway, I attach my cygcheck output. Thanks a lot! > -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple