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bug #45312: Octave 4.0.0 freezes during start on win7

Submitter:  Tatsuro MATSUOKA <tmacchant>
Submitted:  Sat 13 Jun 2015 05:15:06 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  GUI Severity:  3 - Normal
Priority:  5 - Normal Item Group:  Segfault, Bus Error, etc.
Status:  Invalid / Not an Octave Bug Assigned to:  None
Originator Name:  Open/Closed:  * Closed
Release:  * 4.0.0 Operating System:  * Microsoft Windows
Fixed Release:  None Planned Release:  None
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Mon 22 Feb 2016 12:28:48 AM UTC, comment #3: 

No further information or followup on this bug report in several months, closing as invalid. If this issue persists and more information can be provided, another report can be opened.

Mike Miller <mtmiller>
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Thu 18 Jun 2015 07:44:41 AM UTC, comment #2: 

Ingo instigated further


1. disable graphics driver in device manager
2. start installdir\octave.bat --> freeze
3. start installdir\bin\octave.exe and installdir\bin\octave-gui.exe --> both freeze
4. enable graphics driver, reboot

5. install jre-8u45-windows-x64
6. uninstall 4.0.0 (32), install 4.0.0 (64 bit mxe) (disabled "install for all users", "register .m file type with octave")
7. start installdir\octave.bat --> terminal popping up and closing immediately, leaving octave-gui.exe in process manager
8. starting installdir\bin\octave.exe, octave-cli.exe and octave-gui.exe --> all freeze


Thus graphics driver of Nvidia Quadro K600 seems not to be basic origin of freeze.

Tatsuro MATSUOKA <tmacchant>
Sun 14 Jun 2015 06:14:11 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Its possible to turn off acceleration of the video card. Does that stop it from crashing?

John Donoghue <lostbard>
Group Member
Sat 13 Jun 2015 05:15:06 AM UTC, original submission:  

This is discussed in octave-ML.
http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/Octave-4-0-0-freezes-during-start-on-win7-td4670661.html

I am not sure this is a really bug or not but deserve to record it in the bug tracker.


Issue
when starting any of the *.exe files in installdir\bin, an empty terminal window opens and freezes immediately. The window can neither be closed nor killed via the process-manager.

Environments
octave 4.0.0
Windows 7 (don't know 32 or 64 bit)
Graphics card Nvidia Quadro K600

Investigation in the discussion octave ML

  • Octave only starts up in safe mode (only least basic drivers are installed)
  • octave --no-gui-libs does not make sense for freeze
  • octave 3.8.2 works but working graphics_toolkit is only gnuplot (I  guess from descrition "windows is falling back to some basic graphics mode (non-aero design). ")


I suspect that this issue is related to OpenGL hardware acceleration of graphics card. (There is no direct evidence.)

Tatsuro MATSUOKA <tmacchant>

 

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    Date Changed by Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced by
    2016-02-22 mtmiller StatusNeed Info Invalid / Not an Octave Bug
        Open/ClosedOpen Closed
    2015-12-22 mtmiller CategoryNone GUI
        StatusNone Need Info

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