Greetings, Robert Fensterman! > When I try to launch Cygwin 3.6.2-1 - be it from the taskbar shortcut, > double-clicking on mintty.exe, or running mintty.exe from CMD - I get an > error message:
>> Error: Could not fork child process: There are no available terminals (-1) > The resulting window is titled "-nologin". What's your /etc/shells and what is the output of `getent passwd %USERNAME%` ? Can you start bash.exe directly? > The taskbar shortcut is: >> C:\cygwin64\bin\mintty.exe -i /Cygwin-Terminal.ico - > I ran setup this morning to update whatever had updates; this included the > base cygwin package. As last week, it warned me that there was a point > update; I've since downloaded that and re-run setup (without reverting > anything; just letting it do its normal cleanup) to no avail. I've attached > the portion of setup.log with those two runs. > I did also update several other Windows apps Windows first thing this > morning, before I'd tried to open a Cygwin terminal; I don't recall that > list including anything that should have affected terminals, but I suppose > it's possible. > Google searches suggest killing several programs (ssh, ssh-agent, bash, sh, > git, node etc.); none are running. I have tried rebooting a couple of > times, launching Cygwin (from the taskbar shortcut) as soon as I can after > reboot, and I still get the error. > Other terminal-ey apps work: git-bash launches and appears to work > normally; similarly, CMD and PowerShell both seem to be just fine. > Reverting to v 3.6.1-1 seems to work: Cygwin launches and is acting > normally. Updating cygwin through the current version of setup results in > the same error condition (and, reverting a second time is still working). > Running on Win11 24H2 (OS Build 26100.4061). -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Wednesday, May 28, 2025 13:20:56 Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
