From: Marco Atzeri <marco.atzeri@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Rebase, Peflags, and cygserver
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 15:27:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5515748A.7060107@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <gjubpp7uy0nm.fsf@W0144758.usac.mmm.com>
On 3/27/2015 3:29 PM, J. David Boyd wrote:
>
> I keep having problems with vforks. Sometime everything is fine for days,
> then I start emacs, and get vfork errors.
>
> So I rebaseall, and peflagsall. Emacs works great. Oops, forgot to restart
> cygserver. Restart, bam, vfork errors. Or, no vfork error.
>
> It all seems so inconsistent and random. Is there some methodology I am
> missing to ensure no vforks?
>
> What I'm doing (with some success)is this:
>
> 1. get latest cygwin update
> 2. del /etc/rebase*
> 3. rebaseall -v
> 4. peflagsall -v
> 5. don't restart cygserver (This means my bash shell window starts a little
> slower, but I can live with that.)
>
> I usually have to do this 2 to 3 times before I can get emacs to start without
> vfork errors.
>
> Any ideas how I can improve on this? I would like to have cygserver running.
>
> Also, I often run Cygwin Setup (to get something I've missed, like wget..., or
> check for updates) while emacs is running. Should I shut it down first?
yes.
Never update with cygwin processes running
> Dave in Hudson, FL
could you start with
> Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html
specially this point:
"Run cygcheck -s -v -r > cygcheck.out and include that file as an
attachment in your report. Please do not compress or otherwise encode
the output. Just attach it as a straight text file so that it can be
easily viewed"
so we can look on your setup ?
I am not seeing a lot of fork issues, on my system.
Eventually you have some BLODA interfering.
Regards
Marco
Regards
Marco
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-27 15:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-27 15:17 J. David Boyd
2015-03-27 15:27 ` Marco Atzeri [this message]
2015-03-27 19:05 ` J. David Boyd
2015-03-27 20:28 ` Marco Atzeri
2015-03-27 15:45 ` Rockefeller, Harry
2015-03-27 15:48 ` Jim Reisert AD1C
2015-03-27 20:46 ` Achim Gratz
2015-03-28 0:52 ` Ken Brown
2015-03-30 18:07 ` Rockefeller, Harry
2015-03-30 20:35 ` Marco Atzeri
2015-04-06 5:03 ` Jim Reisert AD1C
2015-04-06 16:27 ` Ken Brown
2015-04-11 9:04 ` Achim Gratz
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