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Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 12:13:08 -0500
From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
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Subject: Re: emacs 24.2.90.1 error related to previous-emacs child defunct process
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On 1/23/2013 9:44 AM, Rockefeller, Harry wrote:
> I've been using GNU Emacs 24.2.90.1 (i686-pc-cygwin, GTK+ Version 3.4.4) of 2012-11-27 since the cygwin standard emacs package hung waiting on a child process which had gone defunct.  These continuing error messages may indicate there is still a problem.
>
> (emacs:2844): GLib-WARNING **: In call to g_spawn_sync(), exit status of a child process was requested but SIGCHLD action was set to SIG_IGN and ECHILD was received by waitpid(), so exit status can't be returned. This is a bug in the program calling g_spawn_sync(); either don't request the exit status, or don't set the SIGCHLD action.

This is the error you get when you start emacs under X11 without having 
a D-Bus session daemon running.  See the release announcement for details:

   http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2012-12/msg00000.html

See also /usr/share/doc/emacs/README.Cygwin.

Ken

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