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Re: bash: fork: Permission denied -- how can I fix this?

by Larry Hall (Cygwin) :: Rate this Message:

James Adams wrote:
> I have recently installed Cygwin version 2.510.2.2 onto a Windows XP system
> and when I launch it the first thing I see is this:

2.510.2.2 is the version of 'setup.exe', not Cygwin. The Cygwin package,
which is just one of many in the Cygwin distribution, is currently 1.5.24-2.

> 5 [main] bash 3024 fork: child -1 - CreateProcessA failed, errno 13
> bash: fork: Permission denied
>
> I get the same message when I try running the ls command:
>
> bash-3.2$ ls
> 9404505 [main] bash 1544 fork: child -1 - CreateProcessA failed, errno 13
> bash: fork: Permission denied
>
> Can someone suggest what's going wrong, and how I can fix it?

Let's start here: <http://cygwin.com/problems.html>

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