X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 21:33:38 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Bug: run emacs: fatal error reading the windows environment Message-ID: <20060303203338.GE3184@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <87bqwnwk4p.fsf@ghoti.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87bqwnwk4p.fsf@ghoti.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Mar 3 11:47, Kirk Hilliard wrote: > Hi All, > > After upgrading cygwin, my emacs shortcut stopped working and I > discovered that ``run emacs'' yielded the error: > > 12 [main] emacs 900 C:\cygwin\bin\emacs.exe: *** fatal error - > internal error reading the windows environment -- > too many environment variables? Is that a native Windows emacs? A Cygwin emacs shouldn't have any problem. Otherwise, if it's a native Windows emacs, could you try with the latest version of the "cygstart" tool instead of "run"? Alexander, does the latest "run" version have the stuff added to regenerate the Windows environment before calling CreateProcess, like cygstart has? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/