[1.5.25-7] bash: fork Permission denied

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

Jamil Ben Alluch wrote:
> Hello,
> I have been trying to install cygwin for the last couple of days with no 
> success.
> I have installed the very basic stuff (Base + whatever else is required 
> for a working installation).
> Once setup finishes I launch Cygwin; this is the output I get:
> 
> -----
> Copying skeleton files.
> These files are for the user to personalise
> their cygwin experience.
> 
> These will never be overwritten.
> 
>     10 [main] bash 672 fork: child -1 - CreateProcessA failed, errno 13
> bash: fork: Permission denied
> bash-3.2$ ./.bash_profile
> bash-3.2$ ./.inputrc
> ./.inputrc: line 17: \e[3~:: command not found
> ./.inputrc: line 20: \e[1~:: command not found
> ./.inputrc: line 21: \e[4~:: command not found
> ./.inputrc: line 24: \e[H:: command not found
> ./.inputrc: line 25: \e[F:: command not found
> ./.inputrc: line 28: \e[7~:: command not found
> ./.inputrc: line 29: \e[8~:: command not found
> ./.inputrc: line 32: \eOH:: command not found
> ./.inputrc: line 33: \eOF:: command not found
> bash-3.2$ exit
>     10 [main] bash 4212 fork: child -1 - CreateProcessA failed, errno 13
> bash: fork: Permission denied
> bash-3.2$
> ----

It's worth checking your whole system for cygwin1.dll.  If there's more
than the one you just installed, that's the problem.  Get rid of others.
My guess is that if this is the problem, you have
<http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#3PP> software installed that's running its
stuff.  You'll have to kill that before you can get rid of the other
cygwin1.dll(s).

The other alternative is that you have <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#BLODA>.

If one or the other of these hits the mark, you should be able to rerun
"setup.exe" and just click through all the screens.  "setup.exe" should
run all your postinstall scripts and set things up properly.  If not, I
guess you're stuck starting over again, though it sounds like you don't
have much invested yet so that's probably not a painful process.

> I've tried to install in other directories with no success.
> I had a working installation of cygwin before and tried reinstalling it 
> after it stopped working for a reason that is still unknown to me (I 
> suspect windows update, but I'm not sure...)

Could it have been around the time you installed Interix/SFU?

> Any help appreciated.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Jamil
> 
> Here is my cygcheck output:

We like this attached instead of appended.

> -----cygcheck.out-----
> 


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