>To: cygwin@cygwin.com >Subject: Re: Doing vfork: resource temporarily unavailable > >"Rockefeller, Harry" <harry.rockefel...@flightsafety.com> writes: > >>>-----Original Message----- >>>From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On >>>Behalf Of Jim Reisert AD1C >>>Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2015 8:54 AM >>>To: cygwin@cygwin.com >>>Subject: Re: Doing vfork: resource temporarily unavailable >>> >>>> This indicates that you need to run a full rebase >>>> (https://www.cygwin.com/faq.html#faq.using.fixing-fork-failures). >>>> The simplest way to do this is to run '/usr/bin/rebase-trigger >>>> full', then stop all Cygwin processes and services, and then run >>>> setup-x86.exe. >>>> The _autorebase postinstall script will then take care of the rebase. >>>> >>>> I have occasionally found it necessary to reboot the computer before >>>> doing this. >>> >>>This doesn't always work for me. In fact, I just did this - set the >>>trigger, rebooted, then ran Cygwin Setup. The first time I started Emacs, >>>no problem (only one dbus warning). >>>The very next time, this: >>> >>> 0 [main] emacs-X11 2512 child_info_fork::abort: >>>C:\Cygwin\bin\cygMagickCore-6.Q16-2.dll: Loaded to different address: >>>parent(0x1710000) != child(0x1920000) >> >> Recently I spent about an hour running numerous rebaseall commands >> interspersed with at least one rerun of setup-x86 and 3 reboots before my >> emacs vfork errors went away. >> I don't know if it was the third reboot or something else such as >> deleting some of my biggest emacs buffers ( I use desktop-save-mode) that >> finally cured the problem. >> If there is a "bottom" to this problem I would be willing to participate as >> a tester.
>The autorebase did not work for me, even after several trials. >I finally de-installed Cygwin, and reinstalled it (in its 64bit version which >I did not use up to now). >Now everything is back on track. Thanks. >Best regards, > Seb >-- >Sebastien Vauban Instructions above state running setup-x86.exe not setup-x86_64.exe. Does anyone experience frequent emacs vfork errors running 64-bit Cygwin? Maybe it's time for me to try running that again? What I've successfully done, twice :-), to fix my vfork errors is to follow the above procedure: run rebase-trigger, stop all Cygwin, then run setup-x86.exe, followed by a reboot, then bring up cmd window where I run, cd c:/cygwin; cd bin; ash; /usr/bin/rebaseall -v -- 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
