1.7.1: sshd rsync fork problem

Thu Dec 31 17:05:00 GMT 2009

On 12/31/2009 11:37 AM, Brien wrote:
> I'm seeing the following errors under 1.7.1 that I did not see under 1.5.
>> I'm rsyncing over and ssh tunnel. About 50% of the time, the connection
> fails and the server has the following errors:
>> /var/log/sshd:
> 2 [main] sshd 272 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp before
> initialization, retry 0, exit code 0xC0000005, errno 11
> 1 [main] sshd 2768 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp before
> initialization, retry 0, exit code 0xC0000005, errno 11
> 25 [main] sshd 1364 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp before
> initialization, retry 0, exit code 0xC0000005, errno 11
> 1 [main] sshd 868 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp before
> initialization, retry 0, exit code 0xC0000005, errno 11
> 2 [main] sshd 1896 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp before
> initialization, retry 0, exit code 0xC0000005, errno 11
>>> Windows Event Viewer:
> sshd: PID 1896: error: do_exec_no_pty: fork: Resource temporarily
> unavailable
> sshd: PID 868: fatal: fork of unprivileged child failed
> sshd: PID 3976: fatal: mm_request_receive: read: Connection reset by peer
> sshd: PID 1364: fatal: fork of unprivileged child failed
> sshd: PID 2768: error: do_exec_no_pty: fork: Resource temporarily
> unavailable
> sshd: PID 272: fatal: fork of unprivileged child failed
>> I've searched the email archives, and I see references to this type of a
> problem, but never with any resolution.
>> I've also run Sysinternals Process Monitor to see if I could spot any
> suspicious errors, but none showed up.
>> Here are some previously unanswered threads for background:
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-06/msg00078.html

This one was resolved AFAICS.
> http://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin@cygwin.com/msg60502.html

And there's a hint in this one.
Common causes for this kind of complaint are:
 1. <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#BLODA>
 2. Problems with DLL load collisions. In this case, install the "rebase"
 package and read and follow the instructions in the README under
 /usr/share/doc/Cygwin.
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