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Date:	Fri, 27 Mar 2015 16:17:30 +0100
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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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