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From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Tried to fix  "Doing vfork: resource temporarily unavailable" error with Emacs, now can't start X server
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 12:13:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DAC2ABD.6000702@cornell.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DAB6A08.7060002@gmail.com>

On 4/17/2011 6:30 PM, David M. Karr wrote:
> Cygwin 1.7.8 (and 1.7.9), Win7SP1.
>
> I was having issues with my Emacs startup occasionally failing with
> "Doing vfork: resource temporarily unavailable".  I found a link that
> alleged to have the solution to this
> (http://blog.cottee.org/2008/05/cygwin-emacs-problems.html).

The advice about libncurses on that page is obsolete.  It applied to old 
versions of emacs.  The suggestion of running rebaseall is good but...

> I followed these steps, although when I looked at "libncurses7", I saw
> it was set to "Skip", and that I had versions 8, 9, and 10.  So, I set
> those to reinstall and continued the update.  It also updated some other
> things, including updating me from Cygwin 1.7.8 to 1.7.9.

you should try rebaseall now.

Ken

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-18 12:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-17 22:30 David M. Karr
2011-04-18 12:13 ` Ken Brown [this message]
2011-04-21  1:02   ` David M. Karr

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