mintty window flashes open and immediately closes

[Brent Epp]

Thanks, but I'm still on Windows 7, so this has no effect.

 Â - Brent

On 2019-12-18 05:24, Takashi Yano wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Dec 2019 14:58:56 -0600
> Brent Epp wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> 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?
> Does anything change if the registry value ForceV2 is set to 0 under
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Console? This disables the pseudo console feature.
>
> Note: Do not forget to revert the registry value.
>


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