Terse Systems : "unable to remap"

March 18, 2006 22:24

Programming

For some reason Google doesn't pick up this problem easily enough, so I'm noting it here. Besides which, I know I won't remember it in two weeks.

If your cygwin processes are dying with a strange error that looks like this:

fatal error - unable to remap C:\cygwin\lib\zsh\4.2.6\zsh\complete.dll to same address as parent(0x1030000)

Then fear not. You may have no idea what is going on, but there is a simple solution.

Using the cygwin setup utility, find and install the rebase package.

Then close down any cygwin packages that you may have.

Then type 'ash' from the start / run menu.

Type 'rebaseall' at the console.

This should fix everything. I have no idea why.

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You came up top on a Google search using the keywords "fatal error unable to remap". I thought I'd be unable to find anything online to remedy this problem, but indeed this worked. Your thoughtful post has saved me many hours of development work-around time. Many, many thanks!

at 01/29/08 10:59

Thank you for posting this; Google did, indeed, bring up your short article on a search for "cygwin fatal error unable to remap." As it has for me in the past, rebaseall works like a charm. I can never remember the name of the command, and I usually spend a good ten to fifteen minutes looking it up. You've saved me the irritation of another crawl through automated test passes that seem to get most of the attention in Google searches for error strings.

Lonnon Foster at 03/04/08 02:54

Perfect, thank you. BTW for me it was necessary to give the path, as in "/bin/rebaseall".

Brian Boonstra at 06/30/08 10:21

Just another thanks, for solving the problems I was having. I also had to use /bin/rebaseall.

Bruce at 07/30/08 12:35

bioperl at 10/30/08 10:52

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mirc at 11/17/08 09:47

It does work -- that's amazing! Thanks for making this available to every one.

sameer at 11/26/08 02:12

Hello, It works! This fix also works if you have troubles with: Glob.dll. Thank you very much!

xavierhb at 12/08/08 03:44

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