in reply to repetitive problem installing from CPAN on Cygwin

google *** fatal error - unable to remap: My Life, Starting Up: *** fatal error - unable to remap to same address as parent : Cygwin, Ruby on Rails, System calls
  1. Close out of Cygwin (and all cygwin processes).
  2. Open a Windows command prompt (start -> run - > type 'cmd' or on vista : start -> type 'cmd' in the start search window)
  3. Go to your cygwin bin directory. For me it is c:\cygwin\bin.
  4. Type ash
  5. Type '/usr/bin/rebaseall'
  6. Resolve any errors (I had a warning that went unresolved and it still worked fine)
  7. Reboot...and you should be good.
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Re^2: repetitive problem installing from CPAN on Cygwin
by cmac (Monk) on Feb 23, 2010 at 07:29 UTC
    Thanks much. I'll try that tomorrow.