[Bug 59566] New: Cygwin's Mintty doesn't open - no errors or anything, just nothing happens.
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59566 Bug ID: 59566 Summary: Cygwin's Mintty doesn't open - no errors or anything, just nothing happens. Product: Wine Version: 11.5 Hardware: x86-64 OS: Linux Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: -unknown Assignee: wine-bugs@list.winehq.org Reporter: winehq@regd.hamishmb.com Distribution: --- Mintty from Cygwin as of 25th March 2026 (Cygwin 3.6.7) doesn't launch, nothing happens when launched from the commandline and no error messages are shown. -- Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59566 Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty <winehq@regd.hamishmb.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |winehq@regd.hamishmb.com -- Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59566 Bernhard Übelacker <bernhardu@mailbox.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |bernhardu@mailbox.org --- Comment #1 from Bernhard Übelacker <bernhardu@mailbox.org> --- Hello, I think this is the same as bug #55138? The stack behaviour seems not near enough to windows. I fear to work around it one needs a self built wine with at least this patch: https://gitlab.winehq.org/bernhardu/wine/-/commit/4ecddf042d In this branch I try to follow current wine development with patches I know helping to run cygwin applications: https://gitlab.winehq.org/bernhardu/wine/-/commits/msys2-cygwin_wip -- Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59566 Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty <winehq@regd.hamishmb.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|UNCONFIRMED |RESOLVED Resolution|--- |DUPLICATE --- Comment #2 from Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty <winehq@regd.hamishmb.com> --- Looks like the same bug, yeah. Thanks for the links, I'll give that a try and see if it resolves it for me. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 55138 *** -- Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59566 --- Comment #3 from Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty <winehq@regd.hamishmb.com> --- Any chance of getting those commits sent upstream? -- Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59566 --- Comment #4 from Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty <winehq@regd.hamishmb.com> --- Just gave it a try and it works, so thanks for all your hard work! I did find that $PATH wasn't set correctly and my home directory wasn't created, did you run into that too? -- Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59566 --- Comment #5 from Bernhard Übelacker <bernhardu@mailbox.org> --- (In reply to Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty from comment #4)
Just gave it a try and it works, so thanks for all your hard work!
I did find that $PATH wasn't set correctly and my home directory wasn't created, did you run into that too?
I tried to install to a fresh cygwin64 directory. After the installation finished drive_c/cygwin64/home was empty. Then with the first start I got this: $ wine 'c:\cygwin64\bin\bash.exe' --login -i Cygwin WARNING: Couldn't compute FAST_CWD pointer. This typically occurs if you're using ... Copying skeleton files. These files are for the users to personalise their cygwin experience. They will never be overwritten nor automatically updated. './.bashrc' -> '/home/bernhard//.bashrc' './.bash_profile' -> '/home/bernhard//.bash_profile' './.inputrc' -> '/home/bernhard//.inputrc' './.profile' -> '/home/bernhard//.profile' $ echo $PATH /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/cygdrive/c/windows/system32:/cygdrive/c/windows:/cygdrive/c/windows/system32/wbem:/cygdrive/c/windows/system32/WindowsPowershell/v1.0 So I cannot see an issue here - have you run bash.exe with the parameters? -- Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59566 --- Comment #6 from Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty <winehq@regd.hamishmb.com> --- Hi there, If I delete my home folder and run bash.exe with those parameters, everything seems to work, however it is not so with mintty. When I run mintty with an empty home directory none of this happens and PATH isn't set correctly, which is not how it behaves on Windows - I always use mintty on Windows rather than running bash directly. Also, even once I've run bash.exe with those parameters, subsequently opening mintty doesn't set PATH correctly. I also can't see where PATH is being set, as it doesn't seem to be in any of those files copied from the skeleton folder. Should I report this as a separate issue? I'm not sure how I'd do that actually as mintty doesn't run under vanilla Wine at the moment. Best, Hamish -- Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59566 --- Comment #7 from Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty <winehq@regd.hamishmb.com> --- I've worked around this by manually setting PATH in my .bashrc anyway, so I guess this isn;t a huge problem for me, but still something to be fixed eventually. -- Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59566 --- Comment #8 from Bernhard Übelacker <bernhardu@mailbox.org> --- (In reply to Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty from comment #6)
... When I run mintty with an empty home directory none of this happens and PATH isn't set correctly, which is not how it behaves on Windows - I always use mintty on Windows rather than running bash directly.
Hello, do you start in Windows by the shortcut provided by Cygwin? That one looks like it does something like this: wine 'c:\cygwin64\bin\mintty.exe' -i /Cygwin-Terminal.ico - When I start this, with having my cygwin home directory removed before, I see it recreated with the skeleton files copied into it. -- Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59566 --- Comment #9 from Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty <winehq@regd.hamishmb.com> --- I was actually running mintty directly, but when I run it with those arguments it works as on Windows. Thanks for suggesting that, I probably wouldn't have thought to look. -- Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59566 Alistair Leslie-Hughes <leslie_alistair@hotmail.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|RESOLVED |CLOSED --- Comment #10 from Alistair Leslie-Hughes <leslie_alistair@hotmail.com> --- Closing duplicate. -- Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
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