cygwin-3.1.0 and mintty from desktop shortcut

Thomas Wolff towo@towo.net
Thu Mar 12 21:36:52 GMT 2020


Am 12.03.2020 um 20:39 schrieb Achim Gratz:
> Rainer Emrich writes:
>> I really don't know if this the same issue. But I had similiar symptom
>> after upgrade from 3.0.7 to 3.1.4 on Windows 7. The mintty window pops
>> up, but I got no command prompt. The bash shell used all of one CPU for
>> ever. I tried several things. The solution after hours was uninstalling
>> the gettext package. That's reproducable. After installing the gettext
>> package I get the hang. After uninstalling all's back to normal. That's
>> strange.
> I don't really want to imagine how you came up with that observation,
> but yes, that's the same problem I am facing.  This is my current
> workaround now:
>
> 1. Rename /usr/share/locale to something else, like local.bak.
> 2. Start mintty in the usual way.
> 3. Rename the directory from step 1 back to /usr/share/local.
> 4. Work just like the problem never existed either in the shell running
> inside the mintty or even start a new mintty.
>
>
> Andrew, can we have a Goldstar for Rainer, please?
This does not yet explain the issue, or did I miss a point? Since only 
few people seem to have a problem, what's the locale you run in? Any 
other special configuration?
Thomas



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