"No more processes" ... "i == 0 failed"

2014-01-13 Thread Septimus Stevens
I see "No More Processes" occasionally when I have several windows open (but not egregiously many). Closing the chrome browser usually makes the problem go away, but I wonder if I have a parameter set wrong. Yesterday, things got worse. I couldn't run vim until I closed chrome. Vim was giving m

/usr vanished

2013-04-20 Thread Septimus Stevens
(This is my first post to cygwin. Kudos to cygwin dvelopers -- I've been using it for 9 months and am amazed how well it works.) But my /usr suddenly disappeared, as though I'd done a 'rm -r /usr' but it seems VERY unlikely I typed that. ( /bin and /lib are still there) Any idea how this could

Re: /usr vanished

2013-04-23 Thread Septimus Stevens
I think I now know how /usr vanished. While doing something with /cygwin via Windows, a faulty mouse motion moved /cygwin/usr to another directory under /cywin/c . /usr was still there but invisible to me. (I should have run a giant 'find' or such to locate it, but didn't.) I found the hidden /

abort: address space needed by 'cygXcursor-1.dll ... is already occupied

2013-09-04 Thread Septimus Stevens
I'm novice but stumbled into a configuration that works OK for me. I type 'startx' and get an X environment with three xterms. Yesterday I meant to type 'cat Foo > Bar' but accidentally left off the '>'. Foo was a binary file and that xterm became unusable. Today I type 'xstart' and get only two

Re: abort: address space needed by 'cygXcursor-1.dll ... is already occupied

2013-09-05 Thread Septimus Stevens
Today I rebooted, started Cygwin, X and got FOUR terminals correctly with no error message. Still, I would be happy to understand the previous error. On 9/4/13, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: > Don't do that then. Dumping a binary file to terminal rarely ends well. :-) But it was an accident! > Did yo