EMACS broken after Patch Tuesday

Ken Brown kbrown@cornell.edu
Tue May 15 22:12:00 GMT 2012


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


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