From: Konstantin Khomoutov Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2014 15:34:02 GMT Subject: Re: BUG I can't start git on Windows 7 Message-ID: <20140908193402.c755f942853c278c10b75c7d@domain007.com> In-Reply-To: On Mon, 8 Sep 2014 11:15:44 +0200 Petr Bena wrote: > I installed git on my system using official package from git-scm.com > but I can't launch it, I am always getting this error: > > C:\Users\petr.bena>"C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin\sh.exe" --login -i > 0 [main] us 0 init_cheap: VirtualAlloc pointer is null, Win32 > error 487 AllocationBase 0x0, BaseAddress 0x68570000, RegionSize > 0x40000, State 0x10000 C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin\sh.exe: *** > Couldn't reserve space for cygwin's heap, Win32 error 0 > > > At some point this could be an issue with cygwin, but I am not sure. > Did anyone had similar issue? Does [1] help? I wonder, why the error message mentions Cygwin though. One reason might be is that MinGW is originally a fork of some very early Cygwin release so may be some error message is lingering there, unmodified. 1. http://stackoverflow.com/a/24406417/720999 -- -- *** Please reply-to-all at all times *** *** (do not pretend to know who is subscribed and who is not) *** *** Please avoid top-posting. *** The msysGit Wiki is here: https://github.com/msysgit/msysgit/wiki - Github accounts are free. You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "msysGit" group. To post to this group, send email to msysgit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to msysgit+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com For more options, and view previous threads, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/msysgit?hl=en_US?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for Windows" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to msysgit+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.