On September 6, 2023 5:01 PM, Jose Isaias Cabrera expressed: > > > On September 6, 2023 2:52 PM, Dale Lobb expressed: > > > > Since upgrading to the latest version of Cygwin a few weeks ago on a > > server I manage, I've been experiencing an issue with fork errors. > > The Cygwin installation had not been updated for almost a year before > > that. > > > > The issue happens every time a script is invoked that purges files > > from some temporary directories, but never in the same place in the > > script. The script uses multiple calls to find -exec to remove files > > over 10 days old from the directories. Here is a typical error. > > Sometime the issue will assert after just a few tens of files > > deleted, sometimes after hundreds or thousands of files have been > > deleted: > > > > removed '/cygdrive/d/.../obfuscated.datedata.txt' > > 1 [main] find 20066 dofork: child -1 - forked process 4068 died > > unexpectedly, retry 0, exit code 0xC0000142, errno 11 > > find: cannot fork: Resource temporarily unavailable > > > > It also happens randomly at other times. I've seen the bash shell > > itself fail on the invocation of a mintty. I've seen it happen on all > > sorts of interactive commands entered from bash. > > > > Today, as a test, I updated all the installed Cygwin components. > > One of the post installation scripts failed, so I re-exec'd it: > > > > $ ./postinstall/0p_update-info-dir.dash > > Rebuilding info directory > > 2 [main] dash 2059 dofork: child -1 - forked process 7676 died > > unexpectedly, retry 0, exit code 0xC0000142, errno 11 > > ./postinstall/0p_update-info-dir.dash: 22: Cannot fork > > > > A second re-exec then worked fine. > > > > I've tried reinstalling all the components, and I've tried rebaseall. > > > > Is there anything else I can try, or troubleshooting steps to take? > > > > Best Regards, > > Take a look at this:
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