RE: EMACS broken after Patch Tuesday

["McBroom, Robert C" <McBroomRC@oro.doe.gov>]

> -----Original Message-----
>
> On 5/15/2012 4:41 PM, McBroom, Robert C wrote:
>> Following the Microsoft updates on Windows 7 32bit system, EMACS will 
>> no longer function.  CYGWIN had not been updated in a while as it was 
>> working for the tasks at hand.  Updated to current image with the
>> result--
>>
>> rm3@mcbroomrc2 ~
>> $ emacs&
>>
>> rm3@mcbroomrc2 ~
>> $       1 [main] bash 5280 fork: child -1 - forked process 5316 died unexpectedly, retry 0, exit code -1073741571, errno 11
>> /usr/local/bin/emacs: fork: retry: Resource temporarily unavailable
>> 1026851 [main] bash 5280 fork: child -1 - forked process 3472 died 
>> unexpectedly, retry 0, exit code -1073741571, errno 11
>> /usr/local/bin/emacs: fork: retry: Resource temporarily unavailable
>> 3038588 [main] bash 5280 fork: child -1 - forked process 1360 died 
>> unexpectedly, retry 0, exit code -1073741571, errno 11
>> /usr/local/bin/emacs: fork: retry: Resource temporarily unavailable
>> 7048021 [main] bash 5280 fork: child -1 - forked process 704 died 
>> unexpectedly, retry 0, exit code -1073741571, errno 11
>> /usr/local/bin/emacs: fork: retry: Resource temporarily unavailable
>> 15050612 [main] bash 5280 fork: child -1 - forked process 4408 died 
>> unexpectedly, retry 0, exit code -1073741571, errno 11
>> /usr/local/bin/emacs: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
>>
>> Tried rebaseall, reinstallation of emacs and xorg with no success.
>
> You're not using the emacs from the Cygwin distribution (which is /usr/bin/emacs).  Where did /usr/local/bin/emacs come from?
>
> Ken
>
>
> -
> It is just a script to scale the geometry to my display.
>
> emacs .  -geometry 100x73+504-55 &

Doesn't this script call itself recursively?  Try

   /usr/bin/emacs .  -geometry 100x73+504-55 &

Ken

The explicit path works.

Robert

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