Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 02/13/2004 06:58:42 PM: > Wow, this is turning into a one-on-one dialog here... :-)
Well, * IIRC no one else (on this list) has helped * I coulda been debugging this at least a week ago if anyone had done howto's for debugging cygwin but thanks for your assistance! On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Thomas L Roche wrote: >> After installing >> http://cygwin.com/snapshots/cygwin1-20040213.dll.bz2 >> and running >> emacs --debug-init & >> from an xterm, I am unable to open files using 'desktop' at startup. >> On first desktop load, Emacs reports >> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (file-error "Doing vfork" "resource >> temporarily unavailable") >> call-process("/bin/sh" nil t nil "-c" "\\ls -d -al -- createWRF*.*") <snip> >> and the xterm reports >> bash-2.05b$ emacs --debug-init & >> [1] 1920 >> bash-2.05b$ 7 [main] emacs 1920 sync_with_child: child >> 1152(0x270) died before initialization with status code 0x80 >> 13072 [main] emacs 1920 sync_with_child: *** child state waiting > for longjmp >> This error repeats on every emacs startup. I have not observed this >> error on 1.5.7-1. > The above messages might indicate that there is more than one version > of the cygwin DLL on your system. Instead of moving the old > cygwin1.dll out of the way, could you please rename it to something > that doesn't end in .dll (e.g., cygwin1.dll-old), and, just to make > sure, make it non-executable? Will do ... as soon as gdb quits running 'unzip' with 20040213. Hopefully _that_ will work ... > Also, there should be another message before the sync_with_child one > that may show the cause of the problem. You might try running > strace on the emacs invocation, OK, except (yet another confession of inadequacy) I have not used strace before. <read UG/> I should invoke it like strace -o d:\temp\strace.out emacs --debug-info & ? > look for the above error lines in the output, and see what line > precedes them, something like > C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe: *** Couldn't allocate space for child's heap > 0x0, size 302120960, Win32 error 1455 > Once you find it, please post just that line to this list. Will do. AARRGGHH! unzip just died ... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/