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=F/8aFIJL3/KlpGfIU9jYqMQOyLRIXQRt9O77+GtDeEi
	vFLnL3s9hMGA7GU5LLJt1W+quMaOYmYupb9NJ7g6CKid4NOfdUfgb/lj6nD0muLA
	yxW4RvHT34ubRkd+sUondo+0NKJzI9a4GIHdpv2CZO8JExtV/cGUsvTjg+/xXXYw
	=
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=hWmT/Jqk+KSGKFFYOt2gCZmeI7k=; b=K9AtAXp3Yo54xFozO
	MnhsmOZlcfw6G3HIFo3chNiNaZeN/cmy5he73vDmvnqMkcAFgxWDscgIGMUz+eES
	4Ufv91DY5vPcizSR2Sx3MzFhl3+Jxn6IipQJ44UV7A4DLXSOs7CGBGvs9ygOt0pW
	wRY46hwaIJut8csOAn9hlz7d/g=
Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Id: <cygwin.cygwin.com>
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none
X-Virus-Found: No
X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2
X-HELO: limerock04.mail.cornell.edu
X-CornellRouted: This message has been Routed already.
Message-ID: <52A1FAAA.9090708@cornell.edu>
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2013 11:26:18 -0500
From: Ken Brown <kbrown AT cornell DOT edu>
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.1.1
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: emacs won't run
References: <529EF3CA DOT 2050108 AT netfence DOT it> <529F0A4B DOT 4060901 AT gmail DOT com> <52A076A5 DOT 5050207 AT netfence DOT it> <loom DOT 20131205T154936-986 AT post DOT gmane DOT org> <52A1D04E DOT 7000309 AT netfence DOT it>
In-Reply-To: <52A1D04E.7000309@netfence.it>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-IsSubscribed: yes

On 12/6/2013 8:25 AM, Andrea Venturoli wrote:
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 andrea mkgroup 23 11 set 12.22 /usr/bin/emacs ->
>> /etc/alternatives/emacs
>> $ ls -l /etc/alternatives/emacs
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 andrea mkgroup 22 11 set 12.22 /etc/alternatives/emacs ->
>> /usr/bin/emacs-X11.exe

I don't know if this explains your emacs problem, but the group 
"mkgroup" indicates that /etc/group (and possibly /etc/passwd) should be 
rebuilt  Don't you get a message about this when you start a shell?

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