Several days ago, while using Emacs to edit LaTeX files, while successfully editing one such file I tried to open another, and got the message: File mode specification error: (file-error "Doing vfork" "Resource temporarily unavailable") I have tried doing a rebaseall, setting the rebase switch then updating cygwin, and uninstalling then reinstallin cygwin, all to no avail. In GNU Emacs 24.5.1 (i686-pc-cygwin) of 2015-06-23 on desktop-new Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.3.9600 Configured using: `configure --srcdir=/home/kbrown/src/cygemacs/emacs-24.5-2.i686/src/emacs-24.5 --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr --localstatedir=/var --sysconfdir=/etc --docdir=/usr/share/doc/emacs --htmldir=/usr/share/doc/emacs/html -C --with-w32 'CFLAGS=-ggdb -O2 -pipe -Wimplicit-function-declaration -fdebug-prefix-map=/home/kbrown/src/cygemacs/emacs-24.5-2.i686/build=/usr/src/debug/emacs-24.5-2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/home/kbrown/src/cygemacs/emacs-24.5-2.i686/src/emacs-24.5=/usr/src/debug/emacs-24.5-2' CPPFLAGS= LDFLAGS=' Important settings: locale-coding-system: nil Major mode: Messages Minor modes in effect: shell-dirtrack-mode: t 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 buffer-read-only: t column-number-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Recent messages: Loading paren...done For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a. is undefined agenda.txt has auto save data; consider M-x recover-this-file Mark set Auto-saving...done Saving file /cygdrive/c/Users/Jim/Documents/Enventive/EnCSDocs/agenda.txt... Wrote /cygdrive/c/Users/Jim/Documents/Enventive/EnCSDocs/agenda.txt No docstring slot for tex-start-shell File mode specification error: (file-error "Doing vfork" "Resource temporarily unavailable") Type C-x 1 to delete the help window. 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 mail-prsvr mail-utils help-mode vc-dispatcher dbus xml crm advice help-fns easymenu tex-mode compile shell pcomplete comint ansi-color ring latexenc vc-hg paren cus-start cus-load tex-site auto-loads 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 gfilenotify w32 multi-tty emacs) Memory information: ((conses 8 100208 12310) (symbols 24 20179 0) (miscs 20 77 246) (strings 16 18564 6699) (string-bytes 1 468589) (vectors 8 17875) (vector-slots 4 1237224 22786) (floats 8 81 659) (intervals 28 344 221) (buffers 512 15)) -- 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.