On Tue, 17 Dec 2019 19:00:04 +0100 Achim Gratz wrote: > Corinna Vinschen writes: > > The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: > > > > * cygwin-3.1.0-1 > > * cygwin-devel-3.1.0-1 > > * cygwin-doc-3.1.0-1 > > > > There is some undesirable interaction when I try to start mintty from my > desktop shortcut. Mintty itself starts OK, but any Cygwin program that > mintty starts (whether a shell or something else) just goes into a > spinloop (Windows says it's mostly kernel time). Starting Cygwin > through a console works and I can then run mintty from there without any > problems. Funnily enough I can start strace inside mintty and it'll > fire up a console window to run a shell in OK as well. The hung mintty > often doesn't show up in the Cygwin processes when trying to find it > from a previously started shell. Closing mintty with the mouse does not > stop either the hung mintty nor the amok running process. Killing the > spinning process from Windows will also kill the hung mintty. > > Now, that only happens on one machine and only for my user account (I > have a seperate admin account that doesn't have the problem). One > difference is that my Cygwin home directory is in my user profile for my > normal account, but I haven't had time to investigate further.
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. -- Takashi Yano <takashi.y...@nifty.ne.jp> -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
