Octave Plotting, Invoking Octave
marco atzeri
marco.atzeri@gmail.com
Mon Apr 18 20:01:00 GMT 2011
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
> $ ./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
> the line str = strcat(str {:}); ---------latest
> version
> str = strcat(str, {:}); -------------previous version
> previous version is correct.
>
> screen capture follows:
> **************************************************************************************************
>
> $ octave
>
> GNU Octave, version 3.4.0
>
> Copyright (C) 2011 John W. Eaton and others.
>
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>
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>
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> Octave was configured for "i686-pc-cygwin".
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>
> Additional information about Octave is available at http://www.octave.org.
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> Read http://www.octave.org/bugs.html to learn how to submit bug reports.
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>
> octave:1> who
>
> Variables in the current scope:
>
>
>
> ans
>
>
>
> octave:2> x = 1:1:10
>
> x =
>
>
>
> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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>
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> octave:3> y = x .* x
>
> y =
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> 1 4 9 16 25 36 49 64 81 100
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>
>
> octave:4> sombrero
>
> 0 [main] octave-3.4.0 3668 C:\cygwin\bin\octave-3.4.0.exe: *** fatal
> 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 Function Args
>
> 00229828 6102796B (00229828, 00000000, 00000000, 00000000)
>
> 00229B18 6102796B (6117EC60, 00008000, 00000000, 61180977)
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> 0022AB48 61004F1B (611A7F74, 18D01000, 0000F000, 6124A284)
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> End of stack trace
>
> 0 [main] octave 3664 fork: child 3668 - died waiting for dll loading,
> errno 11
>
> error: popen2: process creation failed -- Resource temporarily unavailable
>
> error: called from:
>
> error: /usr/share/octave/3.4.0/m/plot/__gnuplot_open_stream__.m at line
> 30, column 44
>
> error: /usr/share/octave/3.4.0/m/plot/__gnuplot_drawnow__.m at line 72,
> column 19
>
> octave:5
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>
>
> $ cygcheck -c cygwin x11 gnuplot octave
>
> Cygwin Package Information
>
> Package Version Status
>
> cygwin 1.7.9-1 OK
>
> gnuplot 4.4.0-1 OK
>
> octave 3.4.0-3 OK
>
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