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After some use, Cygwin stops opening new shells when I try to open a new window or open a subshell in Midnight Commander (with ^o).
In MC it prints out:
Cannot open master side of pty: No such device or address (6)
Opening a new window fails with the window closing immediately.
To fix this, I have to exit all Cygwin windows and start again. Killing cygserver.exe or cygrunsrv.exe processes is sometimes also necessary.
This is happening for a long time now (at least a few months), but has increased in frequency and happens at least daily, sometimes every hour.
About my installation:
- I'm using
db_home: windowsin/etc/nsswitch.conf - My terminal is fatty, a mintty clone with tabs. The issue seems to happen also with mintty.
Any idea what needs to be fixed?
EDIT: Found one more thing, when Cygwin stops to open new shells, it also fails to run __git_ps1 that I have in my PS1 prompt.
Krzysztof Bociurko
Posted 2018-03-14T12:46:32.477
Reputation: 209
some BLODA interfering ? – matzeri – 2018-03-14T19:42:54.410
Don't think so, I have nothing in my system from that list and nothing I can think of that could interfere. I have a few things that like to interfere with some apps like te built-in windows antivirus, autohotkey, dropbox or teamviewer (with intergrations disabled) - but I doubt they are the case. Also, please note the edit in my question, @matzeri – Krzysztof Bociurko – 2018-03-15T10:52:09.970
It can be a failed race caused by AV. Difficult to say anyway without a reproducible way to recreate the issue. – matzeri – 2018-03-17T07:50:34.863
Any idea on how to debug when it happens on my machine? I might be able to find the cause, but have no idea on how to start, @matzeri. – Krzysztof Bociurko – 2018-03-17T12:36:25.513