On May 29 12:41, Harry G McGavran Jr wrote: > > > On 05/29/12 12:31, Andy Koppe wrote: > > On 29 May 2012 17:17, Harry G McGavran Jr wrote: > >> > >> Ryan Johnson wrote: > >>> > >>> I routinely encounter mintty windows that don't close after > >>> I exit the login shell they run (even though they contain no > >>> visible child processes), but they can still be closed using > >>> the big red "X" in the corner... your problem sounds like > >>> something more sinister. > >>> > >>> Ryan > >>> > >> > >> There is never an "X" to deal with here. One never know there is > >> a problem until he does start->Log Off to log out of windows. > >> > >> I can normally close any/all mintty windows and then with various > >> process explorers try to find a mintty process and never find any. > >> Then when I log out of Windows, Windows claims it has to close > >> mintty.exe. This was fixed once in a snapshot of 1.7.10, but > >> has since returned with 1.7.15. In this incarnation it seems to > >> occur whenever I've run a Cygwin X app from a mintty window. > >> If I've signed on in Windows and never run a Cygwin X app it > >> generally doesn't happen, but I can't be sure it never happens. > >> Every time I've run a Cygwin X app though I can expect to see > >> it after closing (apparently normally) all mintty windows and > >> then log off of Windows. > > > > Do I understand you correctly that you no longer have any mintty > > windows open when this happens? That's puzzling indeed. Have you > > looked at ye olde Big List Of Dodgy Applications? > > > > http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda > > > > Andy > > Yes, your understanding is correct. My bloda spectrum hasn't > changed since 1.7.10 and is pretty well in hand. When the problem first > appeared in 1.7.10 and I posted about it, a few days later I got a > suggestion to try the latest 1.7.11s snapshot and see if that fixed it. > It did, I haven't had the problem since until 1.7.15 and 1.7.16s. > > This isn't a show stopper, especially since in this incantation it > doesn't happen all the time, however something isn't quite right... > Interesting the Cygwin X apps aggravate the problem.
Can you try to find out which snapshot introduced the problem? Thanks, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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