Re: Mintty Log Off problem

[Harry G McGavran Jr <w5pny@w5pny.com>]

I've found a little more information -- this problem goes away
if I change my default shell to dash.  Seems tcsh is involved somehow.
It comes back when I change my default shell back to tcsh.
Going back to tcsh 6.18.00-2 does not help.

Given the deathly silence to my request below, I must be the only
one experiencing this, but it happens on both of my machines.

     Harry

On 02/15/12 10:43, Harry G McGavran Jr wrote:
> With Cygwin 1.7.10(0.259/5/3) upon logging off Windows XP SP3
> I get a pop-up window "End Program - C:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe"
> with a "End Now" and "Cancel" button every time I log off
> Windows and I have somewhere in that Windows session run
> the Mintty shortcut which has "C:\cygwin\bin\mintty -u -"
> in it and my default shell is tcsh. This never happened
> with previous Cygwin releases. What's even more interesting
> is that in all cases I exit all my programs before logging
> off, including the mintty window. I've even tried hitting
> the "Cancel" button and then looking for a process named
> mintty or "Terminal" (since that's what mintty's description
> is and that is used by some process tools) with both Process Explorer
> and Task Manager, but I can find no such process -- and then
> when I try to log off again not having found such a process
> the pop-up comes back and I can't log off until I hit
> "End Now".
>
> Since I haven't seen any reports of this on this list, I must
> be about the only one this is happening to. Any clues as to
> what I can do to find out what Windows is actually failing to stop
> when I try to log off having run mintty beforehand?

-- 

Harry G. McGavran, Jr.

E-mail: w5pny@w5pny.com


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