[I see the same problem posted on stackoverflow. I'll never understand why people don't just go to the place where they downloaded the software for help first]
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 02:48:03PM +0100, Alain Coste wrote: >Running Windows XP, SP3 >Uninstalled a previous working Cygwin >Installed Cygwin 1.7.17-1 with setup.exe (default installation). No error >reported. >Every time I launch Cygwin Terminal I get the following message, 3 times : >2 [main] -bash 3788 D:\Cygwin\bin\bash.exe: *** fatal error - prefork: >couldn't create pipe process trackerWin32 error 161 Error code 160 is "BAD PATHNAME". That is not something that should be associated with the creation of a pipe. So, it looks like you may have BLODA: http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#BLODA or even a virus. If this isn't enough of a hint then please take some time with this page http://cygwin.com/problems.html cgf [For the curious, this was found in sourceware's spam trap since the message was sent as html. I thought I'd streamline the process by replying directly to the mailing list.] -- 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