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Re: emacs problem


Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu> writes:

> On 7/10/2013 3:07 PM, J. David Boyd wrote:
>> Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu> writes:
>>
>>> On 7/10/2013 2:07 PM, J. David Boyd wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I'm starting to see this error quite a bit in the terminal window I started
>>>> emacs from:
>>>>
>>>> 0 [main] emacs-X11 19400 C:\tools\cygwin\bin\emacs-X11.exe: *** fatal error in
>>>> forked process - failed to create new win32 semaphore, Win32 error 87
>>>
>>> Have you tried rebaseall
>>> (http://cygwin.com/faq.html#faq.using.fixing-fork-failures)?  This
>>> isn't the typical error message you see from rebase problems, but it
>>> can't hurt to try.  If that doesn't help, maybe you could test the
>>> build I mentioned at
>>>
>>>    http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-07/msg00062.html
>>>
>>> Ken
>>
>> Yes, the first thing I tried was rebaseall, but that also gives (in my
>> history) the message about not being able to fork a new process.
>
> Are you saying you get a fork error when you run rebaseall?  If so, I
> think you need to fix that before you can hope to avoid fork errors in
> emacs.  Have you looked for BLODA?  Other than that, I don't know what
> to suggest (except that you should send cygcheck output when you write
> again).
>
> Ken

Wow, sorry, I said that entirely wrong.  I meant that in my recollection, when
I need to rebase, I get messages about "can't create fork".  But that's not
what I said at all.

So this is an entirely different error, but I still rebased, first thing, just
as a SWAG.

I got the emacs from your site, thanks, and I'll keep an eye on it and see how
it goes.

I'll keep you posted.

Dave


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