Re: [EXTERNAL] Updated cygwin this morning, mintty window flashes briefly and quits

2022-01-26 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Brian Inglis! > restart them in a late local permanent postinstall script > /etc/postinstall/zp_z0_l_start_services.dash after setup. It never occured to me that I can use postinstall tasks to restart services :D Just add a line for svc in cygserver $( cygrunsrv --list | grep -v cygs

Re: [EXTERNAL] Updated cygwin this morning, mintty window flashes briefly and quits

2022-01-20 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2022-01-20 13:24, Lavrentiev, Anton wrote: There should be only one of them running, unless you have multiple Cygwin installations, then there can be per-installation instances. Restart of all Cygwin processes was always required (because the main DLL may not be properly replaced while it's

Re: [EXTERNAL] Updated cygwin this morning, mintty window flashes briefly and quits

2022-01-20 Thread Keith Christian
Anton, Interesting problems these days. Thank you again! -- 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

RE: [EXTERNAL] Updated cygwin this morning, mintty window flashes briefly and quits

2022-01-20 Thread Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] via Cygwin
Keith, There should be only one of them running, unless you have multiple Cygwin installations, then there can be per-installation instances. Restart of all Cygwin processes was always required (because the main DLL may not be properly replaced while it's in use by any process) -- but a reboot

Re: [EXTERNAL] Updated cygwin this morning, mintty window flashes briefly and quits

2022-01-20 Thread Keith Christian
Anton, There were two cygserver instances listed, one had a PID and the other one had N/A for the PID. I terminated both of them and now I can launch Cygwin64 term. Are there any configs I should check for cygserver to make sure there aren't two of them running? I've never seen this problem befor

RE: [EXTERNAL] Updated cygwin this morning, mintty window flashes briefly and quits

2022-01-20 Thread Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] via Cygwin
> Click the Cygwin64 Terminal icon on the desktop, opens briefly then closes. > Suggested troubleshooting steps? Try to completely stop and then re-start Cygserver (found in "windows services"). HTH, Anton Lavrentiev Contractor NIH/NLM/NCBI -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problem