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bug #35933: GNU Octave 3.6.1 (winxp sp3) crashes with plot and gnuplot

Submitter:  None
Submitted:  Wed 21 Mar 2012 11:36:49 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  Plotting Severity:  3 - Normal
Priority:  5 - Normal Item Group:  None
Status:  Works For Me Assigned to:  None
Originator Name:  Dave Originator Email:  -email is unavailable-
Open/Closed:  * Closed Release:  * 3.6.1
Operating System:  * Microsoft Windows Fixed Release:  None
Planned Release:  None
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Sun 25 Mar 2012 09:35:11 PM UTC, comment #4: 

As the commands issued by the OP work on my box (also WinXP SP3 w Octave-3.6.1 MinGW), and I'm very suspicious that this is in fact a duplicate of bug #35769, I'll close this bug with "works for me".

To repeat from bug #35769,
"
It can always be reopened if you report that your example code crashes with all 9 (nine) libblas.dll versions in /bin in the latest octave-3.6.1-MinGW drop.
"

Philip Nienhuis <philipnienhuis>
Group Member
Wed 21 Mar 2012 03:06:53 PM UTC, comment #3: 

Please have a look at bug #35769.

This could again be related to an incompatible (with your HW) libblas.dll included in the MinGW "installer".
The effects manifest itself in many completely unexpected situations.

Please report back after having tried all libblas.dll versions in the 7z archive (unpacked in <octave install dir>/bin/
For more info see the readme about libblas.dll which should be in the 7z archive.

Philip Nienhuis <philipnienhuis>
Group Member
Wed 21 Mar 2012 01:18:36 PM UTC, comment #2: 

Oh, additionally, how are you running Octave without the command line? If you're using GUI Octave, please note that we did not make it ourselves and do not endorse it. Its author will not share its source code, so we have no way of fixing it nor even knowing what it's doing.

Jordi GutiƩrrez Hermoso <jordigh>
Group Member
Wed 21 Mar 2012 01:16:35 PM UTC, comment #1: 

I'm sorry about the user experience. It cannot improve without your help. Please help us improve it.

Have you confirmed that this is a problem with gnuplot? I believe by default the Windows version of Octave you're using uses fltk by default. If Octave crashes after a while, it's probably because it periodically runs _fltk_redraw_. Can you try without this?

When Octave first loads, switch to gnuplot with the following command:


graphics_toolkit gnuplot


Do you still see a problem?

Jordi GutiƩrrez Hermoso <jordigh>
Group Member
Wed 21 Mar 2012 11:36:49 AM UTC, original submission:  

Heared, that octave may replace Matlab. Thus I just downloaded and unziped Octave3.6.1_gcc4.6.2_20120303.7z to d:\octave and started using the link.

Tried to test Octave with

x = (-10:0.1:10)';
plot(x)

which crashed after some time without showing any error. (Great user experience, btw.)

When starting octave.exe from the command line I get

D:\octave\Octave3.6.1_gcc4.6.2\bin>octave.exe
GNU Octave, version 3.6.1
Copyright (C) 2012 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.  For details, type `warranty'.

Octave was configured for "i686-pc-mingw32".

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> x = (-10:0.1:10)';
octave:2> plot(x)
panic: Segmentation violation -- stopping myself...
attempting to save variables to `octave-core'...
save to `octave-core' complete
error: get: unknown figure property closerequestfcn
error: get: unknown figure property deletefcn
error: get: unknown figure property closerequestfcn
error: get: unknown figure property __plot_stream__

D:\octave\Octave3.6.1_gcc4.6.2\bin>


I'm trying running octave on a Windows XP SP3 in a corporate environment.

Best regards

Anonymous

 

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    Date Changed by Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced by
    2012-11-30 jordigh Dependencies- Depends on bugs #35769
    2012-03-25 philipnienhuis StatusNeed Info Works For Me
        Open/ClosedOpen Closed
    2012-03-22 bpabbott SummaryGNU Octave 3.6.1 crashes with plot and gnuplot GNU Octave 3.6.1 (winxp sp3) crashes with plot and gnuplot
    2012-03-21 jordigh StatusNone Need Info

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