From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13028 invoked by alias); 18 Apr 2011 12:13:23 -0000 Received: (qmail 13011 invoked by uid 22791); 18 Apr 2011 12:13:19 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,SPF_NEUTRAL,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from granite1.mail.cornell.edu (HELO authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu) (128.253.83.141) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 18 Apr 2011 12:12:47 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.11] (cpe-67-249-196-94.twcny.res.rr.com [67.249.196.94]) (authenticated bits=0) by authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.12.10) with ESMTP id p3ICCjKf024867 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Mon, 18 Apr 2011 08:12:46 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4DAC2ABD.6000702@cornell.edu> Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 12:13:00 -0000 From: Ken Brown User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Thunderbird/3.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Tried to fix "Doing vfork: resource temporarily unavailable" error with Emacs, now can't start X server References: <4DAB6A08.7060002@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4DAB6A08.7060002@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2011-04/txt/msg00015.txt.bz2 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 The advice about libncurses on that page is obsolete.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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/