Unable to start mintty.

Unable to start mintty.

[Andrey Repin]

Greetings, All!

I've not used mintty for quite some time, and discovered today that I no
longer able to start it inside a directory. Quite frustrating moment is that I
can perfectly start it from desktop shortcut, but not from console.
After much fiddling, largely out of desperation, I tried to set LANG= in
console to the same value it have in GUI. Much to my surprise, mintty readily
popped up, like it wasn't a few long hours of constant failure.

The short version:
LANG=ru_RU.CP866  - mintty close immediately.
LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8  - mintty start just fine.


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Andrey Repin
Wednesday, March 30, 2016 05:19:57

Sorry for my terrible english...


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Re: Unable to start mintty.

[Andrey Repin]

Greetings, All!

> I've not used mintty for quite some time, and discovered today that I no
> longer able to start it inside a directory. Quite frustrating moment is that I
> can perfectly start it from desktop shortcut, but not from console.
> After much fiddling, largely out of desperation, I tried to set LANG= in
> console to the same value it have in GUI. Much to my surprise, mintty readily
> popped up, like it wasn't a few long hours of constant failure.

> The short version:
> LANG=ru_RU.CP866  - mintty close immediately.
> LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8  - mintty start just fine.

Another useful bit of info: I've had locale/encoding forced to ru_RU/UTF-8 in
mintty settings. Was working fine in the past, overriding the locale set
through environment variables (which let me had different locale setting in
console, and still fully utilize unicode capabilities of mintty started from
it).

I've made two small tweaks to the way I invoke mintty now:
1. I've removed enforced locale in application settings and
2. I've corrected environment in the wrapper calling mintty from console,
but this is not really a desirable solution.


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Andrey Repin
Wednesday, March 30, 2016 05:42:49

Sorry for my terrible english...


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Re: Unable to start mintty.

[Thomas Wolff]

Am 30.03.2016 um 4:49 schrieb Andrey Repin:
> Greetings, All!
>
>> I've not used mintty for quite some time, and discovered today that I no
>> longer able to start it inside a directory. Quite frustrating moment is that I
>> can perfectly start it from desktop shortcut, but not from console.
>> After much fiddling, largely out of desperation, I tried to set LANG= in
>> console to the same value it have in GUI. Much to my surprise, mintty readily
>> popped up, like it wasn't a few long hours of constant failure.
>> The short version:
>> LANG=ru_RU.CP866  - mintty close immediately.
>> LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8  - mintty start just fine.
> Another useful bit of info: I've had locale/encoding forced to ru_RU/UTF-8 in
> mintty settings. Was working fine in the past, overriding the locale set
> through environment variables (which let me had different locale setting in
> console, and still fully utilize unicode capabilities of mintty started from
> it).
>
> I've made two small tweaks to the way I invoke mintty now:
> 1. I've removed enforced locale in application settings and
> 2. I've corrected environment in the wrapper calling mintty from console,
> but this is not really a desirable solution.
Yes, this has been reported to 
https://github.com/mintty/mintty/issues/530 already, and it seems the 
small change of 2.3.3 isn't actually causing the problem but may have 
revealed another lurking bug which I'm currently chasing.
It doesn't seem to happen with option -d, by the way.
Thomas

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Re: Unable to start mintty.

[Thomas Wolff]

Am 30.03.2016 um 9:27 schrieb Thomas Wolff:
> Am 30.03.2016 um 4:49 schrieb Andrey Repin:
>> Greetings, All!
>>
>>> I've not used mintty for quite some time, and discovered today that 
>>> I no
>>> longer able to start it inside a directory. Quite frustrating moment 
>>> is that I
>>> can perfectly start it from desktop shortcut, but not from console.
>>> After much fiddling, largely out of desperation, I tried to set 
>>> LANG= in
>>> console to the same value it have in GUI. Much to my surprise, 
>>> mintty readily
>>> popped up, like it wasn't a few long hours of constant failure.
>>> The short version:
>>> LANG=ru_RU.CP866  - mintty close immediately.
>>> LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8  - mintty start just fine.
>> Another useful bit of info: I've had locale/encoding forced to 
>> ru_RU/UTF-8 in
>> mintty settings. Was working fine in the past, overriding the locale set
>> through environment variables (which let me had different locale 
>> setting in
>> console, and still fully utilize unicode capabilities of mintty 
>> started from
>> it).
>>
>> I've made two small tweaks to the way I invoke mintty now:
>> 1. I've removed enforced locale in application settings and
>> 2. I've corrected environment in the wrapper calling mintty from 
>> console,
>> but this is not really a desirable solution.
> Yes, this has been reported to 
> https://github.com/mintty/mintty/issues/530 already, and it seems the 
> small change of 2.3.3 isn't actually causing the problem but may have 
> revealed another lurking bug which I'm currently chasing.
I hope 2.3.4 (just uploaded) gets rid of this problem.
However, I suspect some subtle infrastructure bug (gcc or cygwin) behind 
it, see my mail of today "crash caused by stack-allocated array in child 
process after fork?" (https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-04/msg00041.html).
Thomas

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