cygwin-3.1.0 and mintty from desktop shortcut (was: [ANNOUNCEMENT] cygwin 3.1.0-1)

Wed Dec 18 12:28:00 GMT 2019

On 2019年12月17日 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.yano@nifty.ne.jp>
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