Git Extensions Win32 error 487 Couldn t reserve space for cygwin s heap Win32 error 0

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Git Extensions  Everything was working fine until yesterday   But suddenly I am get this error when I try to pull some repositories using git extensions   C  Program Files Git bin git exe pull --progress  origin   Done     0  main  us 0 init cheap  VirtualAlloc pointer is null  Win32 error 487 AllocationBase 0x0  BaseAddress 0x68560000  RegionSize 0x390000  State 0x10000 C  Program Files Git bin sh exe      Couldn t reserve space for cygwin s heap  Win32 error 0   It is happening for all the repositories which I have cloned   But  my git bash is working fine  I don t have any idea what is going on  Any idea as to why this is happening

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If a reboot does not correct the problem (as suggested by Greg Hegwill's answer) then check your PATH for conflicting installation(s) of the msys-1.0.dll (and possibly other related DLLs).

In my particular situation MinGW's installation of msys has a copy of that DLL in its bin directory (<MinGW_Install_Path>\msys\1.0\bin), and it was listed in the PATH. Git's cmd directory was listed in the PATH, but its bin was not. (Git's version of msys-1.0.dll is in the bin directory. Apparently the default installation of MSys-Git does not add its bin to the PATH.)

A temporary fix was to add Git's bin directory to the PATH so that it appears before MinGW's paths. (A more permanent fix will likely involve sorting out the path conflicts between MinGW's msys and Git's and/or removing the duplicate msys installations.)

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I have seen the same error message after upgrading to git1 8 5 2   Simply make a search for all msys-1 0 dll on your C   drive  and make the one used by Git comes first   For instance  in my case I simply changed the order of   C  prgs Gow Gow-0 7 0 bin msys-1 0 dll C  prgs git PortableGit-1 8 5 2-preview20131230 bin msys-1 0 dll   By making the Git path C  prgs git PortableGit-1 8 5 2-preview20131230 bin  come first in my  PATH   the error message disappeared   No need to reboot or to even change the DOS session  Once the  PATH  is updated in that DOS session  the git commands just work     Note that carmbrester and Sixto Saez both report below  in the comments  having to reboot in order to fix the issue  Note  First  also removing any msys-1 0 dll  like one in  LOCALAPPDATA

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Very simple verison of the rebase solution    Go to the folder where git is installed  such as    C  Program Files  x86  Git bin   By holding shift and right clicking in the folder  you should be able to open a command prompt as administrator from there  thanks to https   stackoverflow com users 355389 darren-lewis for that comment     Then run    rebase exe -b 0x50000000 msys-1 0 dll   This fixed it for me when the restart approach didn t work   Hope it helps

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Deleting old version of  USERPROFILE  AppData Local SourceTree app-x x x worked for me  Not sure how it was connected to command line git

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To fix this issue  I simply let Tortoise Git install its update

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I ran into this today  Led by Greg Hewgill s answer  I looked at running processes on my system to see if anything was  stuck  or if other users were logged into the machine doing anything with git  I then launched cygwin  installed separately  on this particular machine  It launched ok  I closed it and then tried the Git Extensions again  I was trying a pull operation  and it worked  Not sure if the launching of cygwin cleared something that was shared but this is the first time I ran into this error and this seemed to fix it for me

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c  msysgit bin rebase exe -b 0x50000000 msys-1 0 dll

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Just want to share my experience here  I came across the same issue while cross compiling for MTK platform on a Windows 64 bit machine  MinGW and MSYS are involved in the building process and this issue popped up  I solved it by changing the msys-1 0 dll file  Neither rebase exe nor system reboot worked for me   Since there is no rebase exe installed on my computer  I installed cygwin64 and used the rebase exe inside   C  cygwin64 bin rebase exe -b 0x50000000 msys-1 0 dll   Though rebasing looked successful  the error remained  Then I ran rebase command inside Cygwin64 terminal and got an error     rebase -b 0x50000000 msys-1 0 dll rebase  Invalid Baseaddress 0x50000000  must be  gt  0x200000000   I later tried a couple address but neither of them worked  So I ended up changing the msys-1 0 dll file and it solved the problem

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I had the same problem  I found solution here http   jakob engbloms se archives 1403   c  msysgit bin gt rebase exe -b 0x50000000 msys-1 0 dll   For me solution was slightly different  It was  C  Program Files  x86  Git bin gt rebase exe -b 0x50000000 msys-1 0 dll   Before you rebase dlls  you should make sure it is not in use    tasklist  m msys-1 0 dll   And make a backup   copy msys-1 0 dll msys-1 0 dll bak   If the rebase command fails with something like       ReBaseImage  msys-1 0 dll  failed with last error   6   You will need to perform the following steps in order    Copy the dll to another directory Rebase the copy using the commands above Replace the original dll with the copy    If any issue run the commands as Administrator

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tl dr  Install 64-bit Git for Windows 2     Technical details        0  main  us 0 init cheap  VirtualAlloc pointer is null  Win32 error 487 AllocationBase 0x0  BaseAddress 0x68570000  RegionSize 0x2A0000  State 0x10000 PortableGit bin bash exe      Couldn t reserve space for cygwin s heap  Win32 error 0   This symptom by itself has nothing to do with image bases of executables  corrupted Cygwin s shared memory sections  conflicting versions of DLLs etc   It s Cygwin code failing to allocate a  5 MB large chunk of memory for its heap at this fixed address 0x68570000  while only a hole  2 5 MB large was apparently available there  The relevant code can be seen in msysgit source     Why is that part of address space not free   There can be many reasons  In my case it was some other modules loaded at a conflicting address     The last address would be around 0x68570000   5 MB   0x68C50000  but there are these WOW64-related DLLs loaded from 0x68810000 upwards  which block the allocation   Whenever there is some shared DLL  Windows in general tries to load it at the same virtual address in all processes to save some relocation processing  It s just a matter of bad luck that these system components got somehow loaded at a conflicting address this time     Why is there Cygwin in your Git   Because Git is a rich suite consisting of some low level commands and a lot of helpful utilities  and mostly developed on Unix-like systems  In order to be able to build it and run it without massive rewriting  it need at least a partial Unix-like environment   To accomplish that  people have invented MinGW and MSYS - a minimal set of build tools to develop programs on Windows in an Unix-like fashion  MSYS also contains a shared library  this msys-1 0 dll  which helps with some of the compatibility issues between the two platforms during runtime  And many parts of that have been taken from Cygwin  because someone already had to solve the same problems there   So it s not Cygwin  it s MinGW s runtime DLL what s behaving weird here   In Cygwin  this code has actually changed a lot since what s in MSYS 1 0 - the last commit message for that file says  Import Cygwin 1 3 4   which is from 2001   Both current Cygwin and the new version of MSYS - MSYS2 - already have different logic in place  which is hopefully more robust  It s only old versions of Git for Windows which have been still built using the old broken MSYS system     Clean solutions    Install Git for Windows 2 - it is built with the new  properly maintained MSYS2 and also has many new features  plenty of bug fixes  security improvements and so on  If at all possible  it is also recommended to use the 64-bit version  But the rebase workaround is performed automatically behind the scenes for 32-bit systems  so the chances of the problem happening there should be lower too  Simply restarting the computer to clean the address space  loading these modules at a different random address  might work  but really  just upgrade to Git for Windows 2 to get the security fixes if nothing else    Hacky solutions    Changing PATH can sometimes work because there might be different versions of msys-1 0 dll in different versions of Git or other MSYS-based applications  which perhaps use different address  different size of this heap etc  Rebasing msys-1 0 dll might be a waste of time  because 1  being a DLL  it already has relocation information and 2   in any version of Windows OS there is no guarantee that a       DLL will always load at same address space  anyway  source   The only way this can help is if the msys-1 0 dll itself loads at the conflicting address it s then trying to use  Apparently that s the case sometimes  as this is what the Git for Windows guys are doing automatically on 32-bit systems  Considering the findings above  I originally binary patched the msys-1 0 dll binary to use a different value for  cygheap start and that resolved the problem immediately

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I have encountered this issue witht he LPCEXpresso building if you have the C  MinGW bin in the PATH   somehow I had to remove it to get rid of this issue since some other MinGW like based too

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This error happens very rarely on my Windows machine   I ended up rebooting the machine  and the error went away

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I had the same problem  after some Windows 8 0 crash and update  on msys git 1 9  I didn t find any msys git in my path  so I just added it in windows local-user envinroment settings  It worked without restarting    Basically  similiar to RobertB  but I didn t have any git msys in my path   Btw    I tried using rebase -b blablabla msys dll  but had error  ReBaseImage  msys-1 0 dll  failed with last error   6  if you need this quickly and don t have time debugging  I noticed  Git Bash vbs  in Git directory successfuly starts bash shell

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Cygwin uses persistent shared memory sections  which can on occasion become corrupted  The symptom of this is that some Cygwin programs begin to fail  but other applications are unaffected  Since these shared memory sections are persistent  often a system reboot is needed to clear them out before the problem can be resolved

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