Clueless! sshd ONLY fails at system startup (XP/SP3) ... minor correction

[Houder]

On 2017-05-25 17:36, Houder wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> YES, I know, XP is NOT supported anymore ... However, I started
> out on XP ... and it has sshd running as a Window service,
> 
>     installed and configured (as approved by Corinna :-)
> 
> ... some time ago I may have upgraded openssh over there (yes, I
> am now running W7) ... I cannot really remember. Yes, sometimes I
> visit (ssh) the "old station" (XP) for info that I am missing.
> 
> (both machines are behind a firewall - rest assured)
> 
> "Suddenly" (yesterday?) I noticed that the "sshd daemon" fails;
> it is started at system startup (i.e. an automatic service).

Ahem ... it should have rephrased that ... however, from the error
report in the sshd.log, it should be clear that the daemon fails as
soon as it receives its first "ssh" request ... (and not before).

[snip]

> The message in the sshd.log:
> 
> Server listening on 0.0.0.0 port <X>.^M # X = some port, but not 22
>       1 [main] sshd 3152 E:\Cygwin25\usr\sbin\sshd.exe: *** fatal
> error in forked process - fork: can't reserve memory for parent stack
> 0x30000 - 0x230000, (child has 0x40000 - 0x240000), Win32 error 487
>  395874 [main] sshd 3152 cygwin_exception::open_stackdumpfile: Dumping
> stack trace to sshd.exe.stackdump
>       3 [main] sshd 536 fork: child -1 - forked process 3152 died
> unexpectedly, retry 0, exit code 0x100, errno 11
> fork: Resource temporarily unavailable^M

Henri

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