Error when Perl calling shell scipt using Cygwin >>> c:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe: *** fatal error - couldn't allocate heap, Win32 error 487

[Reini Urban]

2011/5/27 Gaurav Chhabra:
>
> http://old.nabble.com/file/p31714033/cygcheck.out cygcheck.out
>
> I have a Windows machine and I have Cygwin installed. I have a Perl script
> which calls a shell script using Cygwin. I am getting the following message
> while running the Perl script:

Please try perlrebase

> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 5 [main] sh 6632 c:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe: *** fatal error - couldn't allocate
> heap, Win32 error 487, base 0x8F0000, top 0x940000, reserve_size 323584,
> allocsize 327680, page_const 40966
>            [main] sh 6232 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp before
> initialization, retry 0, exit code 0x100, errno 11
>            5 [main] sh 3784 c:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe: *** fatal error -
> couldn't allocate heap, Win32 error 487, base 0x8F0000, top 0x940000,
> reserve_size 323584, allocsize 327680, page_const 40963016351
>            [main] sh 6232 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp before
> initialization, retry 0, exit code 0x100, errno 11
>            5 [main] sh 6156 c:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe: *** fatal error -
> couldn't allocate heap, Win32 error 487, base 0x8F0000, top 0x940000,
> reserve_size 323584, allocsize 327680, page_const 40966916676
>            [main] sh 6232 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp before
> initialization, retry 0, exit code 0x100, errno 11
>            5 [main] sh 7668 c:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe: *** fatal error -
> couldn't allocate heap, Win32 error 487, base 0x8F0000, top 0x940000,
> reserve_size 323584, allocsize 327680, page_const 409612806997
>            [main] sh 6232 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp before
> initialization, retry 0, exit code 0x100, errno 11
>            6 [main] sh 3132 c:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe: *** fatal error -
> couldn't allocate heap, Win32 error 487, base 0x8F0000, top 0x940000,
> reserve_size 323584, allocsize 327680, page_const 409622683401
>            [main] sh 6232 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp before
> initialization, retry 0, exit code 0x100, errno 11
> c:\myscript.sh: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> I searched various links, and tried out different suggestions that worked
> for others but to no avail. Few things that I tried was:
> --------------------------------------------------
> 1.      Disabled SEP (Symantec Endpoint Protection)
> 2.      Turned off DEP (Data Execution Prevention) for Cygwin’s sh.exe
> 3.      Modified numbers (xxxx,yyyy,zzzz) present in Windows key value at the
> following path: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session
> Manager\SubSystems\
> 4.      Ran rebaseall in ash.exe
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> The strange thing is that if I directly call the shell script using Cygwin,
> it works fine.
> c:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe c:\myscript.sh
>
> cygcheck  -V gave the following output:
> --------------------------------------------------
> $ cygcheck  -V
> cygcheck version 1.123
> System Checker for Cygwin
> Copyright (C) 1998 - 2008 Red Hat, Inc.
> Compiled on Apr 12 2010
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> I think this version of Cygwin is quite old so I am planning to install a
> separate instance (latest) but what concerns me is that since the shell
> script works fine without using Perl, and fails when using Perl, there seems
> to be some issue either with
> ----------------------------------
> 1. Perl itself
> 2. compatibility between Perl & Cygwin versions
> ----------------------------------
>
> I have also attached the output of ‘cygcheck -s -v –r’. However, I have
> modified/removed few sensitive info.
>
> Can anyone provide some help to get this thing working?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Gaurav
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