From: Thomas Wolff <towo@towo.net>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: mintty window flashes open and immediately closes
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2019 09:04:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <564a6053-798d-f0df-c967-816a60d4ed98@towo.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <980c2aad-fb2a-b2cc-ac6c-c9072e1d4b1a@pdc.ca>
Am 18.12.2019 um 01:55 schrieb Brent Epp:
> This is interesting: I have a backup copy of my cygwin installation
> from 2 days ago. I restored it to another folder, made a shortcut...
> and it works.
>
> I'll have to run some diffs to double-check, but I'm pretty certain
> the only thing that's changed in the past two days is that I ran the
> latest installer today to update.
Which packages did you update? What are the versions, in the working
previous version, of cygwin, mintty, and perhaps bash?
>
> Â - Brent
>
> On 2019-12-17 17:36, Brent Epp wrote:
>> Thanks, I should mention, I did try disabling my .bashrc file and
>> actually my entire user directory... still didn't work.
>>
>> Also, mintty tells me neither of those options are valid? These are
>> the options it tells me are available: https://i.imgur.com/vyMG9t6.png
>>
>> Also, just a correction to my original email, the shortcut was
>> actually:`...mintty.exe -i /Cygwin-Terminal.ico -`
>>
>> The shortcut I previously stated was something I had done as a
>> troubleshooting step and then pasted it into the email by mistake.
>>
>> Â - Brent
>>
>> On 2019-12-17 17:17, René Berber wrote:
>>> On 12/17/2019 2:58 PM, Brent Epp wrote:
>>>
>>>> I've been using cygwin for years with no problems. I just updated
>>>> cygwin again and I suddenly can't get into the terminal. When I click
>>>> the cygwin icon, the window just flashes and immediately closes.
>>>>
>>>> What's interesting is that I have a number of cygwin/mintty shortcuts
>>>> for SSH servers as `c:\path\to\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe /bin/ssh
>>>> user@server.com`, which work just fine. I can also get in if I run
>>>> `cygwin.bat` in `cmd`, `console2` or any other Windows command
>>>> terminal.
>>>>
>>>> I've tried running the latest cygwin setup, reinstalling `mintty`, and
>>>> the shortcut still fails. The shortcut is just the default target:
>>>> `C:\path\to\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe /bin/bash --login -i`
>>>>
>>>> I don't know what else to try. What happened here and how do I fix
>>>> this?
>>> Probably a problem with your bash init scripts.
>>>
>>> Try (for the shortcut): C:\cygwin64\bin\mintty.exe --noprofile --norc -
>>>
>>> If that works, then start spelunking those init files (.bashrc,
>>> .profile, /etc/{profile,bash.bashrc}).
>>>
>>> BTW you don't need to call bash in the shortcut, mintty by default
>>> opens
>>> bash with those parameters; but the "-" at the end is required.
>>>
>>> HTH
>>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-12-18 7:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-17 23:17 Brent Epp
2019-12-18 0:04 ` René Berber
2019-12-18 0:55 ` Brent Epp
2019-12-18 2:27 ` Brent Epp
2019-12-18 7:29 ` René Berber
2019-12-18 9:04 ` Ken Brown
2019-12-18 9:04 ` Thomas Wolff [this message]
2019-12-18 13:41 ` Takashi Yano
2019-12-18 15:10 ` Brent Epp
2019-12-21 15:13 ` Andrey Repin
2019-12-21 18:02 ` Brent Epp
2019-12-22 4:49 Jay Goldman
2019-12-28 21:27 ` Jay Goldman
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