emacs problem

[Ken Brown]

On 7/10/2013 3:07 PM, J. David Boyd wrote:
> Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu> 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


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