emacs No Longer Works After A Cygwin Upgrade

Ken Brown kbrown@cornell.edu
Mon Apr 18 21:44:00 GMT 2011


On 4/18/2011 4:30 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 04:27:18PM -0400, Ken Brown wrote:
>> On 4/18/2011 4:02 PM, marco atzeri wrote:
>>> On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 10:01 PM, Tim Daneliuk  wrote:
>>>> This has happened the last few times I did an upgrade with setup.exe.
>>>> emacs, emacs-nox, and emacs -nw will not start at all.  Xemacs works
>>>> fine.
>>>>
>>>> Previously, I was able to work around this by falling back to a
>>>> previous version of emacs, but this too seems broken now.
>>>>
>>>> Ideas?
>>>
>>> http://cygwin.com/problems.html
>>
>> While we're waiting for a full problem report, I'll make my best guess:
>>   The OP needs to run rebaseall.
>
> And possibly also a "cygcheck /usr/bin/emacs.exe" right?

Yes, but without the ".exe".  (/usr/bin/emacs is a symlink that resolves 
to either emacs-X11.exe or emacs-nox.exe.)

Ken

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