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Re: mintty window flashes open and immediately closes
- From: Takashi Yano <takashi dot yano at nifty dot ne dot jp>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2019 20:24:55 +0900
- Subject: Re: mintty window flashes open and immediately closes
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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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Takashi Yano <takashi.yano@nifty.ne.jp>
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