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RE: EMACS broken after Patch Tuesday


-----Original Message-----

On 5/15/2012 4:41 PM, McBroom, Robert C wrote:
> Following the Microsoft updates on Windows 7 32bit system, EMACS will 
> no longer function.  CYGWIN had not been updated in a while as it was 
> working for the tasks at hand.  Updated to current image with the 
> result--
>
> rm3@mcbroomrc2 ~
> $ emacs&
>
> rm3@mcbroomrc2 ~
> $       1 [main] bash 5280 fork: child -1 - forked process 5316 died unexpectedly, retry 0, exit code -1073741571, errno 11
> /usr/local/bin/emacs: fork: retry: Resource temporarily unavailable
> 1026851 [main] bash 5280 fork: child -1 - forked process 3472 died 
> unexpectedly, retry 0, exit code -1073741571, errno 11
> /usr/local/bin/emacs: fork: retry: Resource temporarily unavailable
> 3038588 [main] bash 5280 fork: child -1 - forked process 1360 died 
> unexpectedly, retry 0, exit code -1073741571, errno 11
> /usr/local/bin/emacs: fork: retry: Resource temporarily unavailable
> 7048021 [main] bash 5280 fork: child -1 - forked process 704 died 
> unexpectedly, retry 0, exit code -1073741571, errno 11
> /usr/local/bin/emacs: fork: retry: Resource temporarily unavailable
> 15050612 [main] bash 5280 fork: child -1 - forked process 4408 died 
> unexpectedly, retry 0, exit code -1073741571, errno 11
> /usr/local/bin/emacs: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
>
> Tried rebaseall, reinstallation of emacs and xorg with no success.

You're not using the emacs from the Cygwin distribution (which is /usr/bin/emacs).  Where did /usr/local/bin/emacs come from?

Ken


- 
It is just a script to scale the geometry to my display.

emacs .  -geometry 100x73+504-55 &

The code is emacs-23.4-1.tar.bz2 from the distribution.

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