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Re: BASH and MAN failure
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 13:05:33 -0400
- Subject: Re: BASH and MAN failure
- References: <919686607 dot 274544 dot 1365435897422 dot JavaMail dot gess at webmail-06 dot datacenter dot cha dot cantv dot net> <5162E7FD dot 7060704 at cygwin dot com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 11:53:33AM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>On 4/8/2013 11:44 AM, rodmedina@cantv.net wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Suddenly "bash --login" started giving the follwin message:
>>
>> $ bash --login
>> 1 [main] bash 4084 C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe: *** fatal error - prefork: couldn't create pipe process trackerWin32 error 161
>> $
>>
>> Appart from that I do not see anything unusual.
>
>Have you looked at this FAQ?
>
><http://cygwin.com/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.fixing-fork-failures>
Actually, in this case, Error 161 is ERROR_BAD_PATHNAME. If the OP
is getting that from an attempt to create a pipe then something
is messed up on their system. Most likely it's BLODA:
http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#BLODA
cgf
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