"Couldn't allocate heap" - tried rebasing

[Jesse Ziser]

On 11/11/2011 12:29 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 11/11/2011 10:58 AM, Jesse Ziser wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Since attempting to upgrade from Cygwin 1.5 to 1.7, I'm having the
>> problem that attempting to run various programs results in a slew of
>> errors like the following:
>>
>> 1 [main] bash 4276 c:\cygwin\bin\bash.EXE: *** fatal error - couldn't
>> allo
>> cate heap, Win32 error 487, base 0x740000, top 0x970000, reserve_size
>> 2289664, a
>> llocsize 2293760, page_const 4096
>> Stack trace:
>> Frame Function Args
>> 0028E4EC 6102796B (0028E4EC, 00000000, 00000000, 0028E53C)
>> 0028E7DC 6102796B (6117EC60, 00008000, 00000000, 61180977)
>> 0028F80C 61004F1B (611B66CC, 00740000, 00970000, 0022F000)
>> 0028F83C 6106E8C3 (7FFEFFFF, 000000FF, 00000008, 7713FE92)
>> 0028F92C 610C133B (00000050, 02000000, 6116A724, 6116A720)
>> 0028F95C 610064C0 (00000000, 00000002, 00000000, 753D3480)
>> 0028FA1C 6106FC15 (61000000, 00000001, 0028FD24, 00000001)
>> 0028FA3C 77159930 (6106F960, 61000000, 00000001, 0028FD24)
>> 0028FB30 7715D8A9 (0028FD24, 7EFDD000, 7EFDE000, 7722206C)
>> 0028FCB0 77172120 (0028FD24, 77120000, 70B9B815, 00000000)
>> 0028FD00 77170BDA (0028FD24, 77120000, 00000000, 00000000)
>> 0028FD10 77159E59 (0028FD24, 77120000, 00000000, 0001002F)
>> End of stack trace
>> 0 [main] bash 4768 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp before
>> initia
>> lization, retry 0, exit code 0x100, errno 11
>> bash: fork: retry: Resource temporarily unavailable
>>
>> I've tried all the standard solutions I could find suggested on the net,
>> including the following:
>>
>> rebaseall
>> peflagsall
>> rebaseall -b 0x77000000
>> rebaseall -b 0x76000000
>> rebaseall -b 0x78000000
>> doing a reinstall all using setup.exe
>> wiping my cygwin directory and reinstalling
>> rebaseall -b 0x60000000
>>
>> The last one was based on a blog post that suggested running
>> SysInternals' ListDLLs.exe to see what DLLs from the BLODA might be
>> sticking themselves into Cygwin processes. I found Sophos antivirus in
>> all my Cygwin processes at address 6FA00000, and that's why I chose
>> address 60000000 in my last rebaseall attempt.
>
> Your cygcheck output shows that you're not using the latest version of
> rebase. I suggest you try it (after reading
> /usr/share/doc/rebase/README), without the -b option. See also
>
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-11/msg00215.html
>
> for further advice about using rebase. Two other suggestions: First, you
> could try a Cygwin snapshot (http://www.cygwin.com/snapshots/); there
> have been some improvements in Cygwin's ability to deal with fork
> failures. Second, does uninstalling Sophos antivirus solve the problem?

Tried the new version of rebase.  Did not fix the problem.
Tried rebase -s -i.  No asterisks, so presumably no collisions.
Tried uninstalling Sophos.  Did not fix the problem.
Tried the 2011-11-08 snapshot.  Seems to fix the problem!

I'm not comfortable deploying a snapshot throughout the building, 
though.  I will roll back to 1.5 for now and wait for that snapshot to 
make it to a release.  Thanks!

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| Jesse Ziser, Code Warrior |
| Applied Research Labs: UT |
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