X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=uM1ca917BvjxamWeHrpKeh5dIMAR2VOyo2Ii/+4Eglg c/ot3SUnyV1gVw3Fu/FZ+UAyXigotYfXHwY/AqGHR4O6x5hJ2yprZANOfKWGCXhW nxASttCZltDMQUiQqU9ybzc1ZHM1yUqjrEeneXUq9d6MvcnfSVYy11FPbzIeH034 = DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=ICVIuAeVasOshEtOs4svV4PInt8=; b=RzU87KG9/m3kPTytx LIha5ATT/NWNrSzSgOS89n0+OT9m+fhOMMi+kwmWzk6NDWCq+APZV5fsjXDtWsVM 7KNz+FIAOQ7NkaKvgEIrzY0ZuGEMbEwmayj+FBe0m4MTY1glLfMMfaWzqAl5zyNS 4XGFK1modSCinxTcNN1bkdX6w0= Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-3.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_PASS,TW_YG autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-CornellRouted: This message has been Routed already. Message-ID: <51DDB3BA.50009@cornell.edu> Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 15:19:22 -0400 From: Ken Brown User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130107 Thunderbird/17.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: emacs problem References: <51DDAE03 DOT 2040209 AT cornell DOT edu> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 7/10/2013 3:07 PM, J. David Boyd wrote: > Ken Brown writes: > >> On 7/10/2013 2:07 PM, J. David Boyd wrote: >>> >>> I'm starting to see this error quite a bit in the terminal window I started >>> emacs from: >>> >>> 0 [main] emacs-X11 19400 C:\tools\cygwin\bin\emacs-X11.exe: *** fatal error in >>> forked process - failed to create new win32 semaphore, Win32 error 87 >> >> Have you tried rebaseall >> (http://cygwin.com/faq.html#faq.using.fixing-fork-failures)? This >> isn't the typical error message you see from rebase problems, but it >> can't hurt to try. If that doesn't help, maybe you could test the >> build I mentioned at >> >> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-07/msg00062.html >> >> Ken > > Yes, the first thing I tried was rebaseall, but that also gives (in my > history) the message about not being able to fork a new process. Are you saying you get a fork error when you run rebaseall? If so, I think you need to fix that before you can hope to avoid fork errors in emacs. Have you looked for BLODA? Other than that, I don't know what to suggest (except that you should send cygcheck output when you write again). 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