mintty window flashes open and immediately closes

[Thomas Wolff]

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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