X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 18:23:05 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Mintty Log Off problem (now 1.7.16s) Message-ID: <20120530162305.GD26411@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4FC4F6A6.7050101@w5pny.com> <4FC5186F.3060106@w5pny.com> <20120530155219.GB26411@calimero.vinschen.de> <4FC643B3.5050605@cs.utoronto.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4FC643B3.5050605@cs.utoronto.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On May 30 11:58, Ryan Johnson wrote: > On 30/05/2012 11:52 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >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? > Perhaps figuring out which snapshot between 1.7.10 and 1.7.11 fixed > it would be faster? It sounds like he didn't go very long between 10 > and [some] 11s. Not sure it would be as enlightening, though, If the code in question has changed a lot, it's only marginally helpful to refer to a change in older code. OTOH, knowing both, which snapshot "fixed" it and which snapshot broke it again could be valuable. 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