From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 128604 invoked by alias); 27 Mar 2015 20:55:40 -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 128593 invoked by uid 89); 27 Mar 2015 20:55:39 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: limerock04.mail.cornell.edu Received: from limerock04.mail.cornell.edu (HELO limerock04.mail.cornell.edu) (128.84.13.244) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Fri, 27 Mar 2015 20:55:38 +0000 X-CornellRouted: This message has been Routed already. Received: from authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (granite3.serverfarm.cornell.edu [10.16.197.8]) by limerock04.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4_cu) with ESMTP id t2RKtamt004159 for ; Fri, 27 Mar 2015 16:55:36 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.3] (cpe-67-249-176-138.twcny.res.rr.com [67.249.176.138]) (authenticated bits=0) by authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.12.10) with ESMTP id t2RKtZdQ004020 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT) for ; Fri, 27 Mar 2015 16:55:36 -0400 Message-ID: <5515C3D2.7030304@cornell.edu> Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2015 00:52:00 -0000 From: Ken Brown 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: <87619mw5gd.fsf@Rainer.invalid> In-Reply-To: <87619mw5gd.fsf@Rainer.invalid> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2015-03/txt/msg00501.txt.bz2 On 3/27/2015 4:28 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: > J. David Boyd writes: >> 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.) > > From the announcement of _autorebase: > > To perform a full rebase, execute "rebase-trigger fullrebase". Then > shut down Cygwin and simply run setup.exe. The rebase will be > performed even when the installation did not get modified in any way. > Any subsequent runs of setup.exe will again rebase in incremental > mode. > >> I usually have to do this 2 to 3 times before I can get emacs to start without >> vfork errors. > > Do you use Cygwin Emacs or something else? > >> 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? > > Depends, but anything that could interfere with the rebase is a > potential problem. I've run into the OP's problem occasionally, where a full rebase doesn't fix all rebase/fork problems. What's worked for me on those occasions is to reboot the computer and then run a full rebase. I once saw an explanation of why rebooting makes a difference, but I don't remember what it was. 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