Re: fork error in Windows 2003 running as normal user

["Kris Thielemans" <kris dot thielemans at imperial dot ac dot uk>]

Corrado Labinaz <corradolab <at> virgilio.it> writes:

> I've installed latest (1.5.13) cygwin on Windows Server 2003.
> It works fine while logged on as Administrator.
> Launching Bash as a "normal" User give the following error:
> 
>       3 [main] bash 3252 fork_parent: child 3260 died waiting for longjmp
> before
>  initialization
> bash: fork: Bad file descriptor
> 


Hi

I have exactly the same under Windows XP Home sp2.

In fact, I had a lot of trouble to get cygwin to work earlier for non-admin
users on this machine. The permissions were always wrong (e.g. files in /bin
were only executable for administrators, files in "Documents and Settings"
were all owned by the administrator etc). I fixed all (?) that by using
chmod and chown and got it to work. Then I updated to the latest cygwin and
am stuck again. I still strongly suspect a permission problem, but cannot
find which one.


Some more info:

- going to a windows cmd prompt, cd \cygwin\bin, executing just bash, does
not give this error, but I'm still stuck with that error message when
running any executable e.g. ls

- from a windows cmd prompt, executing some other cygwin utilities gives the
following:
C:\cygwin\bin\id.exe (3876): *** could not load user32, Win32 error 1114

Win32 error 1114 is apparently
"A dynamic link library (DLL) initialization routine failed."

So, I checked permissions of user32.dll in c:\windows\system32. Weirdly
enough, all dll and exe there are listed as owned by adminstrators, and
rwxrwx---. That does not make any sense to me. Anyway, I tried then to chmod
+rx user32.dll (and some other dlls) but that didn't change the above error,
nor solve the problem.


- ssh non-admin-user@machine (e.g. when logged in as admin on machine) works
fine. I can then do ls etc without problems. (isn't that weird?)

- cygcheck -s as non-admin user says there are 2 cygwin1.dll in the path
(but both listed as .\cygwin1.dll). cygcheck -s as admin users does not
complain at all. and of course, I can find only 1 in c:\cygwin\bin anyway.
(Maybe this is because cygcheck has some problems? It obviously complains
about running id.exe for instance).


I've attached both cygchecks.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Kris Thielemans

Attachment: cygcheck.txt
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Attachment: cygcheck-nonadmin.txt.txt
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