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Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 21:33:36 +0200
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Subject: Re: Octave Plotting, Invoking Octave
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On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 6:25 PM, Doug Pace  wrote:
> Installed cygwin with gnuplot, X11, and octave.
>
> Octave will not run the 'sombrero' demo plot.
>
> Have removed c:\cygwin and reinstalled; have attempted previous releases =
of
> cygwin and octave.
> Yes, I needed to use ash and do
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0$ ./rebaseall
> to get startx to work.
>
> Now octave no longer opens, no error messages are issued just returns to =
the
> shell prompt.
>
> This is on XP sp 3.
> Thanks for any help,

Doug,
rebaseall seems to break octave on WinXP. I already noted it on 1.7.9
and on some snapshots.

Workaround.
- reinstall octave
- downgrade cygwin from 1.7.9-1 to 1.7.8-1

At least on my WinXP SP3 it works.

>
> Doug

Marco

>
> -- in octave /usr/share/octave/3.4.0/m/plot/__gnuplot_get_var__.m
> =A0 =A0the line =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0str =3D strcat(str=
 {:}); =A0 =A0 ---------latest
> version
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 str =3D strcat(str, {:}); =A0 -------=
------previous version
> =A0 =A0 =A0previous version is correct.
>
> screen capture follows:
> *************************************************************************=
*************************
>
> $ octave
>
> GNU Octave, version 3.4.0
>
> Copyright (C) 2011 John W. Eaton and others.
>
> This is free software; see the source code for copying conditions.
>
> There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or
>
> FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. =A0For details, type `warranty'.
>
>
>
> Octave was configured for "i686-pc-cygwin".
>
>
>
> Additional information about Octave is available at http://www.octave.org.
>
>
>
> Please contribute if you find this software useful.
>
> For more information, visit http://www.octave.org/help-wanted.html
>
>
>
> Read http://www.octave.org/bugs.html to learn how to submit bug reports.
>
>
>
> For information about changes from previous versions, type `news'.
>
>
>
> octave:1> who
>
> Variables in the current scope:
>
>
>
> ans
>
>
>
> octave:2> x =3D 1:1:10
>
> x =3D
>
>
>
> =A0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
>
>
>
> octave:3> y =3D x .* x
>
> y =3D
>
>
>
> =A0 =A01 =A0 =A0 4 =A0 =A0 9 =A0 =A016 =A0 =A025 =A0 =A036 =A0 =A049 =A0 =
=A064 =A0 =A081 =A0 100
>
>
>
> octave:4> sombrero
>
> =A0 =A0 0 [main] octave-3.4.0 3668 C:\cygwin\bin\octave-3.4.0.exe: *** fa=
tal
> error - couldn't release memory 0x18D01000(61440) for
> '\\?\C:\cygwin\lib\octave\3.4.0\oct\i686-pc-cygwin\cellfun.oct' alignment,
> Win32 error 487
>
> Stack trace:
>
> Frame =A0 =A0 Function =A0Args
>
> 00229828 =A06102796B =A0(00229828, 00000000, 00000000, 00000000)
>
> 00229B18 =A06102796B =A0(6117EC60, 00008000, 00000000, 61180977)
>
> 0022AB48 =A061004F1B =A0(611A7F74, 18D01000, 0000F000, 6124A284)
>
> End of stack trace
>
> =A0 =A0 0 [main] octave 3664 fork: child 3668 - died waiting for dll load=
ing,
> errno 11
>
> error: popen2: process creation failed -- Resource temporarily unavailable
>
> error: called from:
>
> error: =A0 /usr/share/octave/3.4.0/m/plot/__gnuplot_open_stream__.m at li=
ne
> 30, column 44
>
> error: =A0 /usr/share/octave/3.4.0/m/plot/__gnuplot_drawnow__.m at line 7=
2,
> column 19
>
> octave:5
>
>
>
> $ cygcheck -c cygwin x11 gnuplot octave
>
> Cygwin Package Information
>
> Package =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Version =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Status
>
> cygwin =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 1.7.9-1 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0OK
>
> gnuplot =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A04.4.0-1 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0OK
>
> octave =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 3.4.0-3 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0OK
>
>
>
>
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