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Re: mintty window flashes open and immediately closes


FWIW, this problem has disappeared with the latest setup.exe.
There are no more errors during postinstall and AFAICT everything is working.


On Sat, Dec 21, 2019, at 4:58 PM, Jay Goldman wrote:
> I think my problem applies to this thread. 
> (I'm unclear how to reply to an entry in the mailing list archive)
> 
> 
> all cygwin commands stopped working for me, too.
> (i have been using cygwin for many years, it has been running on my 
> windows 10 system for as long as windows 10 has been available)
> so, i recovered a version of the bin folder from a few days ago, and 
> all is working. (note, i only had to recover the bin folder, i did not 
> have to recover the lib, etc, or var folders)
> 
> not sure if i ran cygcheck correctly - i ran it from a cmd window in a 
> non-cygwin folder (this is newcheck.out)
> so i ran  it again (badcheck.out) while working dir is \bin.bad (my 
> 'bad' version of \bin folder)
> NOTE: i changed the user name changed to XXXX)
> 
> Before backing up the bin folder, the situation was:
> When i run cmd window and try anything in cygwin bin folder i get 
> (bash.exe is just an example) (except for cygcheck :-)
> C:\newbin>bash.exe -i
>       0 [main] bash (1588) C:\newbin\bash.exe: *** fatal error - 
> add_item ("\??\C:", "/", ...) failed, errno 22
> 
> This also happens with bat scripts i have been using for many years to 
> start xwindows or just a terminal window.
> 
> It appears, i think, to be a problem with setup (or maybe an 
> interaction with some recent windows 10 update?), 
> since when i run setup-x86_64.exe, i get the following in 
> /var/log/setup.log:
> 
> 2019/12/21 13:48:56 Starting cygwin install, version 2.897
> 2019/12/21 13:48:56 User has backup/restore rights
> 2019/12/21 13:48:56 Current Directory: K:\installation_disks\cygwin64
> 2019/12/21 13:48:56 Could not open service McShield for query, start 
> and stop. McAfee may not be installed, or we don't have access.
> 2019/12/21 13:49:01 source: network install
> 2019/12/21 13:49:02 root: C:\ system
> 2019/12/21 13:49:03 Selected local directory: 
> K:\installation_disks\cygwin64
> 2019/12/21 13:49:04 net: Direct
> 2019/12/21 13:49:06 site: http://mirror.clarkson.edu/cygwin/
> 2019/12/21 13:49:06 HTTP status 404 fetching 
> http://mirror.clarkson.edu/cygwin/x86_64/setup.zst.sig
> 2019/12/21 13:49:06 HTTP status 404 fetching 
> http://mirror.clarkson.edu/cygwin/x86_64/setup.zst
> 2019/12/21 13:49:08 solving: 0 tasks, update: yes, use test packages: no
> 2019/12/21 13:49:11 solving: 0 tasks, update: no, use test packages: no
> 2019/12/21 13:49:11 Augmented Transaction List: is empty
> 2019/12/21 13:49:13 Changing gid back to original
> 2019/12/21 13:49:13 running: C:\\bin\dash.exe 
> "/etc/postinstall/0p_000_autorebase.dash"
> 2019/12/21 13:49:15 abnormal exit: exit code=-1073741819
> 2019/12/21 13:49:15 running: C:\\bin\dash.exe 
> "/etc/postinstall/0p_texlive_prep.dash"
> 2019/12/21 13:49:18 abnormal exit: exit code=-1073741819
> 2019/12/21 13:49:18 running: C:\\bin\dash.exe 
> "/etc/postinstall/0p_update-info-dir.dash"
> 2019/12/21 13:49:19 abnormal exit: exit code=-1073741819
> 2019/12/21 13:49:22 running: C:\\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile 
> "/etc/postinstall/bash.sh"
> 2019/12/21 13:49:23 abnormal exit: exit code=256
> 2019/12/21 13:49:23 running: C:\\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile 
> "/etc/postinstall/cygwin-doc.sh"
> 2019/12/21 13:49:26 abnormal exit: exit code=256
> 2019/12/21 13:49:26 running: C:\\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile 
> "/etc/postinstall/lyx.sh"
> 2019/12/21 13:49:28 abnormal exit: exit code=256
> 2019/12/21 13:49:28 running: C:\\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile 
> "/etc/postinstall/TeXmacs.sh"
> 2019/12/21 13:49:29 abnormal exit: exit code=256
> 2019/12/21 13:49:29 running: C:\\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile 
> "/etc/postinstall/zp_adwaita-icon-theme.sh"
> 2019/12/21 13:49:31 abnormal exit: exit code=256
> 2019/12/21 13:49:31 running: C:\\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile 
> "/etc/postinstall/zp_desktop-file-utils.sh"
> 2019/12/21 13:49:33 abnormal exit: exit code=256
> 2019/12/21 13:49:33 running: C:\\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile 
> "/etc/postinstall/zp_fontconfig_cache_1.sh"
> 2019/12/21 13:49:35 abnormal exit: exit code=256
> 2019/12/21 13:49:35 running: C:\\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile 
> "/etc/postinstall/zp_glib2.0.sh"
> 2019/12/21 13:49:38 abnormal exit: exit code=256
> 2019/12/21 13:49:38 running: C:\\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile 
> "/etc/postinstall/zp_hicolor-icon-theme.sh"
> 2019/12/21 13:49:40 abnormal exit: exit code=256
> 2019/12/21 13:49:40 running: C:\\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile 
> "/etc/postinstall/zp_man-db.sh"
> 2019/12/21 13:49:42 abnormal exit: exit code=256
> 2019/12/21 13:49:42 running: C:\\bin\dash.exe 
> "/etc/postinstall/zp_octave_finish.dash"
> 2019/12/21 13:49:44 abnormal exit: exit code=-1073741819
> 2019/12/21 13:49:44 running: C:\\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile 
> "/etc/postinstall/zp_shared-mime-info.sh"
> 2019/12/21 13:49:47 abnormal exit: exit code=256
> 2019/12/21 13:49:47 running: C:\\bin\dash.exe 
> "/etc/postinstall/zp_texlive_finish.dash"
> 2019/12/21 13:49:49 abnormal exit: exit code=-1073741819
> 2019/12/21 13:49:50 Changing gid to Administrators
> 2019/12/21 13:49:56 note: Nothing needed to be installed
> 2019/12/21 13:49:56 Ending cygwin install
> 
> 
> Attachments:
> * newcheck.out
> * badcheck.out

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