Re: mintty window flashes open and immediately closes

[Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at yandex dot ru>]

Greetings, Brent Epp!

> 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?

I'd suggest running `rebase-trigger full`, closing all Cygwin
programs/services, and running setup again as a first attempt to resolve it.


-- 
With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Saturday, December 21, 2019 17:29:44

Sorry for my terrible english...