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RE: Rebase, Peflags, and cygserver
- From: "Rockefeller, Harry" <Harry dot Rockefeller at flightsafety dot com>
- To: "cygwin at cygwin dot com" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 13:48:41 -0400
- Subject: RE: Rebase, Peflags, and cygserver
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Ken Brown
>Sent: Friday, March 27, 2015 3:56 PM
>To: cygwin@cygwin.com
>Subject: Re: Rebase, Peflags, and cygserver
>
>On 3/27/2015 4:28 PM, Achim Gratz wrote:
>> J. David Boyd writes:
>>> What I'm doing (with some success)is this:
>>>
>>> 1. get latest cygwin update
>>> 2. del /etc/rebase*
>>> 3. rebaseall -v
>>> 4. peflagsall -v
>>> 5. don't restart cygserver (This means my bash shell window starts a
>>> little slower, but I can live with that.)
>>
>> From the announcement of _autorebase:
>>
>> To perform a full rebase, execute "rebase-trigger fullrebase". Then
>> shut down Cygwin and simply run setup.exe. The rebase will be
>> performed even when the installation did not get modified in any way.
>> Any subsequent runs of setup.exe will again rebase in incremental
>> mode.
>>
>>> I usually have to do this 2 to 3 times before I can get emacs to
>>> start without vfork errors.
>>
>> Do you use Cygwin Emacs or something else?
>>
>>> Also, I often run Cygwin Setup (to get something I've missed, like
>>> wget..., or check for updates) while emacs is running. Should I shut it down first?
>>
>> Depends, but anything that could interfere with the rebase is a
>> potential problem.
>
>I've run into the OP's problem occasionally, where a full rebase doesn't fix all rebase/fork problems. What's worked for me on those >occasions is to reboot the computer and then run a full rebase. I once saw an explanation of why rebooting makes a difference, but I >don't remember what it was.
>Ken
This morning I had to do *two* reboots followed by rebaseall. Is there any way to know what BLODA is making this so time consuming, i.e., painful?
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