cygwin-3.1.0 and mintty from desktop shortcut (was: [ANNOUNCEMENT] cygwin 3.1.0-1)
Corinna Vinschen
corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Wed Dec 18 09:07:00 GMT 2019
On Dec 17 19:00, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen writes:
> > The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution:
> >
> > * cygwin-3.1.0-1
> > * cygwin-devel-3.1.0-1
> > * cygwin-doc-3.1.0-1
> >
>
> There is some undesirable interaction when I try to start mintty from my
> desktop shortcut. Mintty itself starts OK, but any Cygwin program that
> mintty starts (whether a shell or something else) just goes into a
> spinloop (Windows says it's mostly kernel time).
Windows version?
> Starting Cygwin
> through a console works and I can then run mintty from there without any
> problems. Funnily enough I can start strace inside mintty and it'll
> fire up a console window to run a shell in OK as well. The hung mintty
> often doesn't show up in the Cygwin processes when trying to find it
> from a previously started shell. Closing mintty with the mouse does not
> stop either the hung mintty nor the amok running process. Killing the
> spinning process from Windows will also kill the hung mintty.
>
> Now, that only happens on one machine and only for my user account (I
> have a seperate admin account that doesn't have the problem). One
> difference is that my Cygwin home directory is in my user profile for my
> normal account, but I haven't had time to investigate further.
It would be great if you could nail this down to a specific aspect.
Alternatively, a bisect might help.
Corinna
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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Maintainer
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