From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9128 invoked by alias); 21 Apr 2011 01:02:42 -0000 Received: (qmail 9092 invoked by uid 22791); 21 Apr 2011 01:02:39 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RFC_ABUSE_POST,TW_KB,TW_XK,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-pv0-f171.google.com (HELO mail-pv0-f171.google.com) (74.125.83.171) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 21 Apr 2011 01:02:25 +0000 Received: by pva4 with SMTP id 4so856222pva.2 for ; Wed, 20 Apr 2011 18:02:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.143.26.4 with SMTP id d4mr4441881wfj.243.1303347744353; Wed, 20 Apr 2011 18:02:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.102] (c-98-247-30-63.hsd1.wa.comcast.net [98.247.30.63]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id w14sm1010754wfh.20.2011.04.20.18.02.22 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 20 Apr 2011 18:02:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4DAF8212.5090305@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 01:02:00 -0000 From: "David M. Karr" 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> <4DAC2ABD.6000702@cornell.edu> In-Reply-To: <4DAC2ABD.6000702@cornell.edu> 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/msg00017.txt.bz2 On 4/18/2011 5:12 AM, Ken Brown wrote: > 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 The advice about libncurses on that page is obsolete.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. > I tried to reply to this a while ago, but it never showed up on the list. This didn't fix the problem. I still can't start the X server. It fails with "Failed to activate core devices". Here is the log output: Welcome to the XWin X Server Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project Release: 1.10.0.0 OS: Windows 7 Service Pack 1 [Windows NT 6.1 build 7601] Package version 1.10.0-1 built 2011-03-15 XWin was started with the following command line: X :0 -multiwindow ddxProcessArgument - Initializing default screens winInitializeScreenDefaults - primary monitor w 1920 h 1080 winInitializeDefaultScreens - native DPI x 96 y 96 [181003.592] (II) xorg.conf is not supported [181003.592] (II) See http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html for more information [181003.592] LoadPreferences: /home/David/.XWinrc not found [181003.592] LoadPreferences: Loading /etc/X11/system.XWinrc [181003.592] LoadPreferences: Done parsing the configuration file... [181003.654] winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw installed, allowing ShadowDD [181003.654] winDetectSupportedEngines - Windows NT, allowing PrimaryDD [181003.654] winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw4 installed, allowing ShadowDDNL [181003.763] winDetectSupportedEngines - Returning, supported engines 0000001f [181003.763] winSetEngine - Multi Window or Rootless => ShadowGDI [181003.763] winScreenInit - Using Windows display depth of 32 bits per pixel [181003.779] winAllocateFBShadowGDI - Creating DIB with width: 1920 height: 1080 depth: 32 [181003.779] winFinishScreenInitFB - Masks: 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff [181003.779] winInitVisualsShadowGDI - Masks 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff BPRGB 8 d 24 bpp 32 [181003.779] winInitMultiWindowWM - Calling pthread_mutex_lock () [181003.779] winMultiWindowXMsgProc - Calling pthread_mutex_lock () [181003.779] Screen 0 added at virtual desktop coordinate (0,0). [181003.779] MIT-SHM extension disabled due to lack of kernel support [181003.794] XFree86-Bigfont extension local-client optimization disabled due to lack of shared memory support in the kernel [181003.826] (II) AIGLX: Loaded and initialized /usr/lib/dri/swrast_dri.so [181003.826] (II) GLX: Initialized DRISWRAST GL provider for screen 0 [181003.841] [dix] Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/OTF/, removing from list! [181003.841] [dix] Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/Type1/, removing from list! [181003.966] (EE) XKB: Could not invoke xkbcomp [181003.966] (EE) XKB: Couldn't compile keymap [181003.966] (EE) XKB: Failed to load keymap. Loading default keymap instead. [181004.091] (EE) XKB: Could not invoke xkbcomp [181004.091] (EE) XKB: Couldn't compile keymap [181004.091] XKB: Failed to compile keymap [181004.091] Keyboard initialization failed. This could be a missing or incorrect setup of xkeyboard-config. [181004.091] Fatal server error: [181004.091] Failed to activate core devices. -- 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/