Git bash Error: Could not fork child process: There are no available terminals (-1)

Question

I have had up to 8 git bash terminals running at the same time before.

Currently I have only 2 up.

I have not seen this error before and I am not understand

Answer 1

On a more recent version of git for windows, the process to kill in task manager was "GitExtensions.exe". Killed that and the terminals restarted with no issues.

Answer 2

Found a similar issue and solution in google groups

I opened a windows command prompt and ran the command

$ tasklist

It looks as though the ssh connections I had made in my git bash shells weren't being closed when those windows were closed and were hanging the available git bash shell windows.

This may be a dangerous solution but from the windows command prompt I ran

$ taskkill /F /IM ssh.exe 

Everything appears to be working again after this. It may not have directly been an issue of orphan processes, but this worked for at least for me.

Additional note: you can also kill other processes, for example like:

$ taskkill /F /IM vim.exe

Answer 3

Reinstalled git, it is now working fine.

Answer 4

i found that killing msys2 terminal in task manager solves the problem

Answer 5

Open Task manager, find bash.exe process and kill it. Helped in my case.

Answer 6

In system bash type:

ps

Kill any bad looking process:

kill -9 <ID>

Worked for me.