[ncl-talk] Cygwin issue (forked process died unexpectedly)

[Kevin Vermeesch]

Hi,
This is probably a Cygwin issue and not a NCL issue, but I am curious to 
see if anyone else has seen this error and found a workaround for it. I 
am using NCL 6.3.0 on Cygwin 2.1.0 on Windows 7. Whenever I use the 
"print" or "systemfunc" NCL commands I get the respective errors:

0 [main] ncl 6820 fork: child -1 - forked process 7360 died 
unexpectedly, retry 0, exit code 0x0000135, errno 11
fatal:Pager failed1

and

52 [main] ncl 7576 fork: child -1 - forked process died unexpectedly, 
retry 0, exit code 0x0000135, errno 11
fatal:systemfunc: cannot create child process:[errno=11]

The "gsn_open_wks" function also produces a similar error. NCL was 
working fine under an older version of Cygwin, but I recently upgraded 
my Cygwin version and always get the above errors when using NCL. I 
tried the ash /usr/bin/rebaseall command 
(http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Support/talk_archives/2011/1525.html), but that 
did not fix the issue (it did on the old Cygwin version). Any tips are 
appreciated because with this issue, NCL has very limited functionality 
on my Windows computer.
thank you,
Kevin