>-----Original Message----- >From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of >Rockefeller, Harry >Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2015 5:24 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: RE: Cygwin fork:retry error > >Based on advice I've gotten here >these are the steps I plan to run next time emacs vfork errors happen. > >Reboots are time expensive so my next attempt will be to avoid that. > >1) stop mcshield.exe [since my employer has McAfee installed on my PC.] >2) run rebase-trigger full. >3) Stop all Cygwin processes. >4) Run Cygwin setup.exe [32-bit]. >5) Start mcshield.exe > >If that doesn't work, I'll try this next: >2) >Reboot >4) > >If that doesn't work, I'll probably try 64-bit Cygwin again.
I had emacs vfork errors this morning. Even though I am administrator on my PC I was unable to stop mcshield.exe. I tried the second procedure: 2) Reboot 4), and it worked for me.
