Starting today (2014/09/26) when I issue a command that needs to fork a process such as dired I get the message in the terminal window: 0 [main] emacs-w32 816 child_info_fork::abort: C:\cygwin\bin\cygharfbuzz-0.dll: Loaded to different address: parent(0x340000) != child(0xF80000) I am running Windows 8.1 using cygwin and GNU Emacs 24.3.93.1 (i686-pc-cygwin) of 2014-08-15 on fiona Emacs does not crash. In GNU Emacs 24.3.93.1 (i686-pc-cygwin) of 2014-08-15 on fiona Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.3.9600 Configured using: `configure --srcdir=/home/kbrown/src/cygemacs/emacs-24.3.93-1.i686/src/emacs-24.3.93 --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin --libexecdir=/usr/libexec --datadir=/usr/share --localstatedir=/var --sysconfdir=/etc --libdir=/usr/lib --datarootdir=/usr/share --docdir=/usr/share/doc/emacs --htmldir=/usr/share/doc/emacs/html -C --with-w32 --with-file-notification=no 'CFLAGS=-ggdb -O2 -pipe -Wimplicit-function-declaration -fdebug-prefix-map=/home/kbrown/src/cygemacs/emacs-24.3.93-1.i686/build=/usr/src/debug/emacs-24.3.93-1 -fdebug-prefix-map=/home/kbrown/src/cygemacs/emacs-24.3.93-1.i686/src/emacs-24.3.93=/usr/src/debug/emacs-24.3.93-1' CPPFLAGS= LDFLAGS=' Important settings: locale-coding-system: nil Major mode: Lisp Interaction Minor modes in effect: show-paren-mode: t tooltip-mode: t electric-indent-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t column-number-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Recent input: C-x d C-y Recent messages: Loading paren...done Warning: /home/jim/.emacs is newer than /home/jim/.emacs.elc For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a. dired-insert-directory: Doing vfork: Resource temporarily unavailable Load-path shadows: None found. Features: (shadow sort gnus-util mail-extr emacsbug message format-spec rfc822 mml mml-sec mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util help-fns mail-prsvr mail-utils dired info easymenu auctex-autoloads tex-site auto-loads package paren cus-start cus-load time-date tooltip electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel w32-common-fns disp-table w32-win w32-vars tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list newcomment lisp-mode prog-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core frame cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev minibuffer nadvice loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote make-network-process dbusbind w32 multi-tty emacs) Memory information: ((conses 8 91775 6957) (symbols 24 19405 0) (miscs 20 46 164) (strings 16 16275 3570) (string-bytes 1 403304) (vectors 8 10156) (vector-slots 4 395964 5992) (floats 8 63 378) (intervals 28 253 205) (buffers 512 13)) -- Jim Hurt's Enventive Signature File Jim Hurt Jim@Enventive.com Enventive Engineering 861 George Hill Road P.O. Box 209 South Lancaster, MA 01561 Phone: (978) 365-7458 Fax: (978) 365-2876 General information: info@enventive.com This message and any attachments are solely for the intended recipient and may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, use, or distribution of the information included in this message and any attachments is prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us by reply e-mail and immediately and permanently delete this message and any attachments. Thank you.