Mintty.exe Usually Closes Immediately, But Sometimes Runs.

[MarkFiveThousand]

Following a fresh install of Ubunto distro and WSLtty, most of the time the window closes immediately upon invocation. No message is displayed when -h always is set. When I change the command line sometimes it will run once, but fail on subsequent invocations using the same command line. Below I've listed various attempts to run it along with the result of each attempt.

Installed Ubuntu from Windows Store.

Run Ubuntu. It performs installation, then prompts for new user name and password.

Downloaded and ran wsltty-3.0.2.3-install.exe

Run:
%LOCALAPPDATA%\wsltty\bin\mintty.exe --WSL="Ubuntu" --configdir="%APPDATA%\wsltty" -~
Result:
Console opens then immediately closes.

Run:
%LOCALAPPDATA%\wsltty\bin\mintty.exe --WSL="Ubuntu" --configdir="%APPDATA%\wsltty" -~ -h always
Result:
Console opens. No text message is displayed. I close the empty window.

wslconfig /l outputs:

Windows Subsystem for Linux Distributions:
Ubuntu (Default)

Run configure WSL shortcuts. Running the above commands produce the same results.

Run:
C:\Users\mhodges\AppData\Local\wsltty\bin\mintty.exe --WSL= --configdir="C:\Users\mhodges\AppData\Roaming/wsltty" -~ -h always
Result:
WSL distribution '' not found [Error info 3] Try '--help' for more information

Run:
C:\Users\mhodges\AppData\Local\wsltty\bin\mintty.exe --WSL="Ubuntu" --configdir="C:\Users\mhodges\AppData\Roaming/wsltty" -h always
Result:
Console opens. No text message is displayed. I close the empty window.

Run:
C:\Users\mhodges\AppData\Local\wsltty\bin\mintty.exe --WSL= --configdir="C:\Users\mhodges\AppData\Roaming/wsltty" -h always
Result:
Console opens. No text message is displayed. I close the empty window.

Run:
C:\Users\mhodges\AppData\Local\wsltty\bin\mintty.exe --WSL= --configdir="C:\Users\mhodges\AppData\Roaming/wsltty" -~ -h always
Result:
Console opens. No text message is displayed. I close the empty window.

Run:
%LOCALAPPDATA%\wsltty\bin\mintty.exe --WSL= --configdir="C:\Users\mhodges\AppData\Roaming/wsltty" -~
Result:
Works!

Run same again:
%LOCALAPPDATA%\wsltty\bin\mintty.exe --WSL= --configdir="C:\Users\mhodges\AppData\Roaming/wsltty" -~
Result:
Console opens. No text message is displayed. I close the empty window.

Run:
echo %LOCALAPPDATA%
Result:
C:\Users\mhodges\AppData\Local

Run:
C:\Users\mhodges\AppData\Local\wsltty\bin\mintty.exe --WSL= --configdir="C:\Users\mhodges\AppData\Roaming/wsltty" -~
Result:
Console opens. No text message is displayed. I close the empty window.

Run:
C:\Users\mhodges\AppData\Local\wsltty\bin\mintty.exe --WSL="Ubuntu" --configdir="C:\Users\mhodges\AppData\Roaming/wsltty" -h always
Result:
Works!

Run same again:
C:\Users\mhodges\AppData\Local\wsltty\bin\mintty.exe --WSL="Ubuntu" --configdir="C:\Users\mhodges\AppData\Roaming/wsltty" -h always
Result:
Works!

Run same again:
C:\Users\mhodges\AppData\Local\wsltty\bin\mintty.exe --WSL="Ubuntu" --configdir="C:\Users\mhodges\AppData\Roaming/wsltty" -h always
Result:
Console opens. No text message is displayed. I close the empty window.

Run:
C:\Users\mhodges\AppData\Local\wsltty\bin\mintty.exe
Result:
/bin/bash: Exit 126.
Failed to run '/bin/bash': No such file or directory

Run:
C:\Users\mhodges\AppData\Local\wsltty\bin\mintty.exe --WSL="Ubuntu" -h always
Result:
Console opens. No text message is displayed. I close the empty window.

Run:
C:\Users\mhodges\AppData\Local\wsltty\bin\mintty.exe --WSL=
Result:
Works!

Run same again:
C:\Users\mhodges\AppData\Local\wsltty\bin\mintty.exe --WSL=
Result:
Console opens then immediately closes.

Run:
%LOCALAPPDATA%\wsltty\bin\mintty.exe --WSL=
Result:
Console opens then immediately closes.

Run:
%LOCALAPPDATA%\wsltty\bin\mintty.exe --WSL="Ubuntu"
Result:
Console opens. No text message is displayed. I close the empty window.

Run:
C:\Users\mhodges\AppData\Local\wsltty\bin\mintty.exe --WSL="Ubuntu"
Result:
Console opens then immediately closes.

Run:
C:\Users\mhodges\AppData\Local\wsltty\bin\mintty.exe --WSL="Ubuntu" -h always
Result:
Works!

Run:
C:\Users\mhodges\AppData\Local\wsltty\bin\mintty.exe --WSL="Ubuntu" -h always
Result:
Console opens. No text message is displayed. I close the empty window.

It doesn't make sense to me that successive identical invocations would produce differing results. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,
Mark

[Biswa96]

See the very previous issue.

[MarkFiveThousand]

Thank you for your quick response. I did read the immediately previous post. I am not experiencing the same errors as the previous post. In my case, I did not receive any of the following error messages indicated by the previous post: I am not receiving the same error, "/bin/wslbridge: Exit 1. error: 'C:\Users\......\AppData\Local\wsltty\bin\wslbridge-backend' backend program is missing", as my C:\Users\........\AppData\Local\wsltty\bin\wslbridge.exe is not missing. I am not receiving the same error, "note: backend error output: -v: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `'' -v: -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file" In fact, when I run using "-h always", no error messages are ever displayed, with the one exception being if I run mintty.exe with no parameters. As this error is entirely reasonable and expected, I dismiss this case. I am not using Windows 10 insider build fast preview 18945 or greater. Despite the many differences with the previous post, do you recommend I pursue the wslbridge2 solution? Thank you, Mark

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[Biswa96]

OK. Then open the %LOCALAPPDATA%\wsltty\bin path in Command Prompt (CMD) and execute wslbridge.exe. Did you see any error?

[MarkFiveThousand]

No error is output. Do we have any debug logs we can enable?

C:\Users\mhodges\AppData\Local\wsltty>cd %LOCALAPPDATA%\wsltty\bin
C:\Users\mhodges\AppData\Local\wsltty\bin>wslbridge.exe
C:\Users\mhodges\AppData\Local\wsltty\bin>

Thank you.

[chi110r]

I got the same situation.

C:\Users*\AppData\Local\wsltty>cd %LOCALAPPDATA%\wsltty\bin
C:\Users*\AppData\Local\wsltty\bin>wslbridge.exe
error: could not exec '/bQ□@5': No such file or directory
C:\Users***\AppData\Local\wsltty\bin>wslbridge.exe
error: could not exec '/b1M;': No such file or directory

maybe it helps

wsltty version: 3.0.2.3

[itsjef]

This might relate to #156

[mintty]

Released 3.0.5 with new gateway.