Re: 1.7.5: problem running cygwin in Windows XP

[Ramakishore Yelamanchilli <rkishore999 at gmail dot com>]

Dave,

Thanks for your reply. I did clean my system now. I installed cygwin
again. I still see the same error. Please find the attached new
cygcheck output.

There is McAffe running in my system. I don't have rights to uninstall
it. But all my colleagues are able to install successfully. They also
have McAffe on their system.

Regards

Ram

On 06/06/2010 06:04, Ramakishore Yelamanchilli wrote:
> I installed cygwin and getting the following error running any
> command. Please find the attached file with cygcheck output.

  You are infected by a fake-antivirus malware:

> AVAPP = 'C:\Program Files\PersonalAV'
> AVUNINST = 'C:\Program Files\Common Files\Uninstall\PersonalAV\Uninstall.lnk'

  You need to disinfect your system; I googled some instructions and found

http://www.geekpolice.net/malware-removal-guides-f12/how-to-remove-personalav-removal-guide-t11001.htm

  After your system is clean, maybe the cygwin installation will start
working, or maybe it might need re-installing through setup.exe; it's hard to
tell how much the malware interfered with your installation.

> DEFLOGDIR = 'C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\McAfee\DesktopProtection'

  That's a real anti-virus, but McAfee products have been known to interfere
with cygwin in the past, in a way very much like what you're seeing: fork
failure messages.  If cleaning the malware off your system doesn't fix
everything, the next thing to try would be disabling any advanced heuristic or
behaviour blocking features it has, or perhaps creating an exception for the
on-access file scanner to exclude anything in the cygwin directories.  See

http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda

for more details about that potential issue.

    cheers,
      DaveK



On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 12:04 AM, Ramakishore Yelamanchilli
<rkishore999@gmail.com> wrote:
> I installed cygwin and getting the following error running any
> command. Please find the attached file with cygcheck output.
>
> ? ? ?4 [main] bash 9580 C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe: *** fatal error - couldn't allo
> cate heap, Win32 error 487, base 0x7D0000, top 0x820000, reserve_size 323584, al
> locsize 327680, page_const 4096
> ? ? 98 [main] bash 9252 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp before initia
> lization, retry 0, exit code 0x100, errno 11
> ? ? ?3 [main] bash 8448 C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe: *** fatal error - couldn't allo
> cate heap, Win32 error 487, base 0x7D0000, top 0x820000, reserve_size 323584, al
> locsize 327680, page_const 4096
> 1723862 [main] bash 9252 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp before initia
> lization, retry 0, exit code 0x100, errno 11
> ? ? ?4 [main] bash 3064 C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe: *** fatal error - couldn't allo
> cate heap, Win32 error 487, base 0x7D0000, top 0x820000, reserve_size 323584, al
> locsize 327680, page_const 4096
> 4319898 [main] bash 9252 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp before initia
> lization, retry 0, exit code 0x100, errno 11
> ? ? ?4 [main] bash 9008 C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe: *** fatal error - couldn't allo
> cate heap, Win32 error 487, base 0x7D0000, top 0x820000, reserve_size 323584, al
> locsize 327680, page_const 4096
> 8906662 [main] bash 9252 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp before initia
> lization, retry 0, exit code 0x100, errno 11
> ? ? ?4 [main] bash 10004 C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe: *** fatal error - couldn't all
> ocate heap, Win32 error 487, base 0x7D0000, top 0x820000, reserve_size 323584, a
> llocsize 327680, page_const 4096
> 17507792 [main] bash 9252 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp before initi
> alization, retry 0, exit code 0x100, errno 11
> bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
>
> I would appreciate any help with this.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Regards
>
> Ram
>

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