On Mar 3 20:16, Ulf-Dietrich Braumann wrote: > On Sat, 3 Mar 2012, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > > >Try this: > >http://cygwin.com/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.fixing-fork-failures > > Thanks. Unfortunately, rebaseall did not help. I also tried > peflagsall and a reboot, but no change. Also, I do not run programs > mentioned in the BLODA (Big List Of Dodgy Apps). And, when I > temporally replace the present cygwin1.dll version 1.7.11 with an > old version 1.7.9 copied from another non-updated installation, the > sshd again can be started as service, i.e. the fork problem does not > occur. > > Any more ideas?
You wrote: > $ peflags --cygwin-heap=1024 /usr/sbin/sshd.exe Did you revert this setting? It's a hell of a lot of heap, which just by itself can break fork. sshd doesn't need that much heap anyway. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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