Clean Installation of Cygin 1.7.5-1; Unpackage and run puttycyg with "putty.exe -cygterm -"; result PuTTY Fatal Error, Failed to allocate pseudoterminal about puttycyg

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Scratch this report. I'm clearly having a problem with the cygwin install scrips
instead of puttycyg.

2010/05/11 10:18:25 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile
/etc/postinstall/000-cygwin-post-install.sh
      9 [main] bash 3744 C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe: *** fatal error - couldn't allocate
heap, Win32 error 487, base 0x6D0000, top 0x730000, reserve_size 389120, 
allocsize
393216, page_const 4096
      8 [main] bash 2840 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp before
initialization, retry 0, exit code 0x100, errno 11
      9 [main] bash 3936 C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe: *** fatal error - couldn't allocate
heap, Win32 error 487, base 0x6D0000, top 0x730000, reserve_size 389120, 
allocsize
393216, page_const 4096
4142302 [main] bash 2840 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp before
initialization, retry 0, exit code 0x100, errno 11
      9 [main] bash 2100 C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe: *** fatal error - couldn't allocate
heap, Win32 error 487, base 0x6D0000, top 0x730000, reserve_size 389120, 
allocsize
393216, page_const 4096
9140588 [main] bash 2840 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp before
initialization, retry 0, exit code 0x100, errno 11
      9 [main] bash 3940 C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe: *** fatal error - couldn't allocate
heap, Win32 error 487, base 0x6D0000, top 0x730000, reserve_size 389120, 
allocsize
393216, page_const 4096
16307872 [main] bash 2840 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp before
initialization, retry 0, exit code 0x100, errno 11
      9 [main] bash 3588 C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe: *** fatal error - couldn't allocate
heap, Win32 error 487, base 0x6D0000, top 0x730000, reserve_size 389120, 
allocsize
393216, page_const 4096
27325926 [main] bash 2840 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp before
initialization, retry 0, exit code 0x100, errno 11
/etc/postinstall/000-cygwin-post-install.sh: fork: Resource temporarily 
unavailable
2010/05/11 10:18:57 abnormal exit: exit code=128

Original comment by [email protected] on 11 May 2010 at 2:44

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I'm receiving the same error message as above "Failed to allocate 
pseudoterminal". 
Under medgar123's comment he posted some information which nulls the request,
unfortunately I don't know what he ran to get that data so I can determine 
whether is
issue with my install or the puttycyg.

Cheers

Original comment by [email protected] on 21 May 2010 at 3:22

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I was pulling my hair out for a while trying to figure it what my problem was, 
and
eventually stumbled upon the solution that fixed my Ills. I don't know if this 
will
help you, but I found that our Dell boxes come preinstalled with some Wave 
Systems
Corp TPM garbage, which was interfering with my installation of Cygwin 1.7.5. I 
don't
even know who finds that trash useful, much less anything than utterly annoying 
and
interfering with the operation of a clean system...

Check item 44. http://www.cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html

After removing it, I cleaned out my borked install directory and tried again 
and it
worked. 

What happens right after the cygwin install? When I was doing it while this TPM 
was
active, I could run the batch file and launch cygwin, but I wouldn't have a home
directory, /bin wouldn't be on the path, etc. I was able originally to create a
.bashrc and I created my home directory manually, so I didn't think anything was
really wrong at first. I thought it was due to coming from 1.5 or something and 
I
just had to tweak it manually as a result. But then puttycyg would never 
connect.

After finally discovering that I might be prevented from install by some TPM, I
removed it, reinstalled, and ran the batch file. Everything was working, I had a
$HOME, commands were on the path, etc. I didn't have to do any of this manual
configuring. Then I launched puttycyg and it worked immediately, no hassle.

Be sure to check your /var/log directory and check the setup log after setup
completes. I would have saved a lot of time if I had immediately been searching 
on
the error: "couldn't allocate
heap, Win32 error 487, base 0x6D0000, top 0x730000, reserve_size 389120, 
allocsize"

Hope this can help

Original comment by [email protected] on 21 May 2010 at 3:42

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Wow, thanks for the tips, JCerwinske!

Original comment by medgar123 on 21 May 2010 at 7:42

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Original comment by medgar123 on 30 Jun 2010 at 9:18

• Changed state: WontFix