<rant>Ditched Symantec, good. But now Kaspersky says xinetd is piping data, and piping data is a potential RootKit risk. Oh, the humanity!!</rant>
Lesson learned: spare yourself a headache, trust the BLODA. On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Ricardo Urbina <ricardo.urb...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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