Re: Getting "Doing Fork: Bad File Descriptor" when using various tools

>>>>> "Eric" == Eric Nute <[email protected]> writes:

    Eric> Thanks for the reply.

    Eric> I tried the suggested command, M-! test testfile.txt after first opening testfile.txt into a buffer. I got the same "Doing fork: Bad file descriptor" message.

(setq debug-on-signal t)
(setq debug-on-quit t)
(setq debug-on-error t)

Provoke the error again.

Send us the *Backtrace* buffer contents.

    Eric> It would seem that this result is consistent with the hypothesis. How would I adjust the path used by this version of xemacs?

Set up the PATH variable.  This even works in my native Windows XEmacs.

    Eric> In answering the questions asked of me, I am a new user of Xemacs and Cygwin, although I have some experience with Linux and FreeBSD.  As mentioned before, I am using the "C:\cygwin\usr\local\bin\i686-pc-cygwin\xemacs-21.4.13.exe" binary for xemacs. I used the Cygwin setup.exe version 2.416 to install cygwin, but I can't figure out which version of cygwin I am using.

    Eric> The funny thing is, though, that on another system I installed the same thing and it worked.  The big differences between the two systems are:

    Eric>  - I built the working system, whereas my Info Manag dept. built the one that doesn't work
    Eric>  - The working system is a stand alone, but the broken one is part of
    Eric> a domain. I am beginning to think that some form of the mkpasswd
    Eric> command might help me, but

    Eric> Again, I really don't know what kinds of things to do to try an troubleshoot this problem, so any suggestions are greatly welcome.


    Eric> Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

    >>>>>>> "Eric" == Eric Nute <[email protected]> writes:
    >>>>>>> 
    >> 
    Eric> I am using Xemacs, Cygwin version, on a Windows 2000
    Eric> station.  When I tried to use the tools, specifically "Tools
    Eric> -> Compare -> Two Files" or "Tools -> Grep -> Grep all files
    Eric> in directory", the tool fails with an error in the bottom
    Eric> line stating "Doing Fork: Bad File Descriptor" .

See above.

Hope this helps,

Adrian

    >> 
    >> What happens if you do M-! grep something some-existing-file RET?
    >> 
    >> I suspect grep is not on the PATH that XEmacs knows about.
    >> 
    >> The other possibility is breakage in XEmacs handing off processes to
    >> Cygwin.  What version of Cygwin are you using?  Is this changed
    >> behavior, or are you a new XEmacs users?  Have you updated (from a
    >> previous version) either XEmacs or Cygwin lately?
    >> 
    >> A better place to ask is [email protected], and/or
    >> [email protected] (the latter is nearly defunct, but there are
    >> still a few subscribers who haven't joined the xemacs-beta list yet).
    >> 
    >> 
    >> 


    Eric> -- 
    Eric> Eric Nute <[email protected]>




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