cygwin error with exit code -1073741819

Question

A cygwin 32-bit version installed on windows 7 64-bit has worked well for a few years. Lately it started to have a lot more errors with fork problem. An example is like:

+ cnt=44
+ '[' 44 -le 50 ']'
     40 [main] bash 3348 fork: child -1 - forked process 4248 died unexpectedly, retry 0, exit code -1073741819, errno 11
./testsh: fork: retry: Resource temporarily unavailable
++ printf %03d 44

The example is by running this script:

$ cat testsh
#!/bin/bash -x
cnt=0
while [ $cnt -le 50 ]; do
    echo $( printf "%03d" $cnt )
    cnt=$(($cnt + 1))
done

Any idea about the specific cause?

Since cygwin has been installed long ago and working well, it cannot be updated. I know it might be better to re-install a late version, but the question is what caused the problem?

Answer 1

Moving my comment to an answer.

As I said above, this error usually indicates that you need to do a rebaseall.

See Here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/14509551/1549185