Error 29 on Vista
Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
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Tue Mar 6 23:11:00 GMT 2007
Larry Hall (Cygwin X) wrote:
>
> Fork failures are typically caused by one of two issues:
>
> 1. Buggy firewalls, virus-scanners, spyware proggies, etc.
> 2. DLL address space collisions
>
> The former can be solved by uninstalling all such junkware (no, you can't
> generally just disable this stuff) and trying again. If it works, then
> you know you need to report a bug (to the junkware provider, not to
> Cygwin).
> The latter can be solved by installing the 'rebase' package, reading
> '/usr/share/doc/Cygwin/rebase-2.4.3.README', and following the
> instructions.
>
> Win32 error 487 is a classic indicator of problem 2 above. I'd recommend
> starting there. You can check the main list for lots of back-story to the
> rebase issue if you're interested.
>
I somehow missed that you were working on Vista. You'll also want to
see:
<http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-11/msg00059.html>
You can ignore references to snapshots. If you're running the latest
Cygwin release via 'setup.exe', you're at the same level as the snapshots
at the time the message was sent.
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