Unable to start mintty.
Thomas Wolff
towo@towo.net
Sun Apr 3 22:08:00 GMT 2016
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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