Cygwin 1.7: Possible error in /etc/postinstall/base-files-profile.sh

[Mark Harig]

Dave Korn wrote:
>   However, now you've got rid of that, a quick re-run through setup.exe and
> set everything to reinstall on the chooser page should fix it.
>
>   

setup-1.7.exe is running pretty reliably now that I have stopped (but not
removed) these two services via the Services app:

   LVCOMSer (Logitech Video COM Service)
   LVSvrLauncher (Launcher for Logitech Video Components)


But I continue to see the following type of error (cut from a
terminal session that occurred moments ago) when running
various cygwin programs:

$ man emacs
      5 [main] sh 7444 C:\cygwin-1.7\bin\sh.exe: *** fatal error - 
couldn't allocate heap, Win32 error 487, base 0x6D0000, top 0x730000, 
reserve_size 389120, allocsize 393216, page_const 4096
      5 [main] sh 8212 C:\cygwin-1.7\bin\sh.exe: *** fatal error - 
couldn't allocate heap, Win32 error 487, base 0x6D0000, top 0x730000, 
reserve_size 389120, allocsize 393216, page_const 4096
      3 [main] sh 9104 child_info::sync: wait failed, pid 7444, Win32 
error 0
    136 [main] sh 9104 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp before 
initialization, retry 0, exit code 0x1000000, errno 11
     40 [main] sh 9036 child_info::sync: wait failed, pid 8212, Win32 
error 0
    179 [main] sh 9036 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp before 
initialization, retry 0, exit code 0x1000000, errno 11

(FWIW, the 'max_memory.exe' program reports that over 1500 Mbytes are 
available.)

Is there a general troubleshooting approach that can be
recommended to cygwin users that can isolate defects
in cygwin applications from defects that are caused by
interaction with other ms-windows applications?  For
example, if windows is booted to "Safe Mode" or
"Safe Mode with Networking", can errors be reliably
attributed to cygwin defects, and not to inter-application
problems?


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