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On 8/10/2009 9:25 AM, Marc Girod wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I upgraded to 1.7.0-56, then did my usual rebaseall/peflagsall.
> It went well, but now, I keep getting failures to start new shells
> under GNU emacs.
> I get the following error:
> 
> Can't exec program: /usr/bin/bash
> 
> Process shell<4> exited abnormally with code 127
> 
> 
> It succeeded first a few times (I have currently 4 shells running),
> and I cannot get an error starting bash from the command line.

Have you tried the latest snapshot (2009-08-04)?  It works OK for me 
under XP SP3.  I started 12 shells without a problem.

Ken

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