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

[Mary Haley]

Hi Kevin,

I didn't see any responses to this question, so I'll take a stab at it.

You are running an older version of Cygwin (2.1.0) than what we built NCL
V6.3.0 with (2.738).  If you can, I suggest upgrading your version of
Cygwin by downloading a new setup-x86.exe program from http://x.cygwin.com and
running it.

--Mary

On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 12:15 PM, Kevin Vermeesch <
kevin.c.vermeesch at nasa.gov> wrote:

> 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
>
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