Re: mintty window flashes open and immediately closes

[Brent Epp <brent at pdc dot ca>]

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.

 - 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.
>
>  - 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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