From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24440 invoked by alias); 10 Jul 2013 19:19:42 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 24424 invoked by uid 89); 10 Jul 2013 19:19:41 -0000 X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-3.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_PASS,TW_YG autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 Received: from limerock04.mail.cornell.edu (HELO limerock04.mail.cornell.edu) (128.84.12.60) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.84/v0.84-167-ge50287c) with ESMTP; Wed, 10 Jul 2013 19:19:39 +0000 X-CornellRouted: This message has been Routed already. Received: from authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (granite4.serverfarm.cornell.edu [10.16.197.9]) by limerock04.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4_cu) with ESMTP id r6AJJXZg007890 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2013 15:19:37 -0400 Received: from [128.84.234.241] (dhcp241.math.cornell.edu [128.84.234.241]) (authenticated bits=0) by authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.12.10) with ESMTP id r6AJJXxd031974 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2013 15:19:33 -0400 Message-ID: <51DDB3BA.50009@cornell.edu> Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 20:55:00 -0000 From: Ken Brown User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130107 Thunderbird/17.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: emacs problem References: <51DDAE03.2040209@cornell.edu> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2013-07/txt/msg00204.txt.bz2 On 7/10/2013 3:07 PM, J. David Boyd wrote: > Ken Brown 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 -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple