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RE: Cygwin fork:retry error
- From: "Rockefeller, Harry" <Harry dot Rockefeller at flightsafety dot com>
- To: "cygwin at cygwin dot com" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2015 09:08:35 -0500
- Subject: RE: Cygwin fork:retry error
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Rockefeller, Harry
>Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2015 5:24 PM
>To: cygwin@cygwin.com
>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.