From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 113223 invoked by alias); 27 Mar 2015 15:17:39 -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 113188 invoked by uid 89); 27 Mar 2015 15:17:39 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=2.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,FREEMAIL_FROM,KAM_FROM_URIBL_PCCC,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mail-wg0-f44.google.com Received: from mail-wg0-f44.google.com (HELO mail-wg0-f44.google.com) (74.125.82.44) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-GCM-SHA256 encrypted) ESMTPS; Fri, 27 Mar 2015 15:17:37 +0000 Received: by wgdm6 with SMTP id m6so102913854wgd.2 for ; Fri, 27 Mar 2015 08:17:34 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.194.121.136 with SMTP id lk8mr36939649wjb.49.1427469454610; Fri, 27 Mar 2015 08:17:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.21.188.214] ([62.154.173.198]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id w8sm3288082wja.4.2015.03.27.08.17.33 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 27 Mar 2015 08:17:33 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5515748A.7060107@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 15:27:00 -0000 From: Marco Atzeri User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Rebase, Peflags, and cygserver References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2015-03/txt/msg00492.txt.bz2 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 -- 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