Cygwin/X XWinrc menu no longer launches after recent updates

Roland Roberts roland@astrofoto.org
Sun Mar 8 02:14:34 GMT 2020


On 3/3/2020 8:12 PM, Roland Roberts wrote:
> On 3/3/2020 7:59 AM, Takashi Yano wrote:
>> On Tue, 03 Mar 2020 12:40:17 +0000
>> "Henry S. Thompson" wrote:
>>> Takashi Yano writes:
>>>> This bug was already fixed in current git head.
>>> Current git head for Cygwin?  Or mintty?
>>
>> I mean cygwin.
>>
>>> Because I have another box, and now see that the bug does _not_ occur
>>> with Cygwin 3.1.4 and mintty 3.1.0 -- the above error labelled 3.1.4 is
>>> with Cygwin 3.1.4 _and_ mintty 3.1.4.
>>
>> In my environment, your problem does not occur even with cygwin
>> 3.1.4 and mintty 3.1.4. So I am not sure what is the real cause.
> 
> Well, for me it *does* happen with cygwin 3.1.4 and mintty 3.1.4. I 
> tried rolling back just mintty to 3.1.0 and it still happened. Then I 
> rolled both of them back and it no longer happens, at least on one of my 
> systems where I am *not* running sshd. Now to go try the other one....

For me, it is sufficient to roll back just cygwin to 3.1.0. The mintty 
version does not matter at all.

roland



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