Octave would not start

[thomas atiyeh]

Fresh install on an HP nc6400 with T5500 1.66 Ghz Centrino Duo Core, 2Gb ram.
CPU selection: Intel Pentium 4 with SSE2
I selected the Graphical User Interface under Misc.
I selected JHandles
There were no errors reported during the install.
I read the readme and then launched Octave and the below resulted:

GNU Octave, version 3.0.1
Copyright (C) 2008 John W. Eaton and others.
This is free software; see the source code for copying conditions.
There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; not even for MERCHANTIBILITY or
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  For details, type `warranty'.
Octave was configured for "i686-pc-msdosmsvc".
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
Report bugs to <bug at octave.org> (but first, please read
http://www.octave.org/bugs.html to learn how to write a helpful report).
For information about changes from previous versions, type `news'.
 - Use `pkg list' to see a list of installed packages.
 - SciTE editor installed. Use `edit' to start the editor.
 - MSYS shell available (C:\Program Files\Octave\msys).
panic: Segmentation violation -- stopping myself...

- - - - -
After remembering that the GUI was experimental, I decided to remove Octave and then try to re-install it with the same options except without the GUI.

Same result...

GNU Octave, version 3.0.1
Copyright (C) 2008 John W. Eaton and others.
This is free software; see the source code for copying conditions.
There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; not even for MERCHANTIBILITY or
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  For details, type `warranty'.
Octave was configured for "i686-pc-msdosmsvc".
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
Report bugs to <bug at octave.org> (but first, please read
http://www.octave.org/bugs.html to learn how to write a helpful report).
For information about changes from previous versions, type `news'.
 - Use `pkg list' to see a list of installed packages.
 - SciTE editor installed. Use `edit' to start the editor.
 - MSYS shell available (C:\Program Files\Octave\msys).
panic: Segmentation violation -- stopping myself...

(I attached the 'octave-core' file that was created when I ran Octave after the 2nd install of Octave.)

I did not reboot the laptop between the first uninstall and the 2nd install.

I did have a 2nd monitor on at the time (extended the laptop's monitor with a 2nd monitor) - so I disabled that and tried running Octave again, same result.

I read the bug logs and found that I have version 1.3.1_11 of Java.  I am not able to update Java on my laptop at this time, so I uninstalled and installed Octave with GNUPlot instead of JHandles.

That fixed the problem (allowed Octave to run) - so the version of Java was the issue.

Perhaps a check could be added if the user selects the JHandles option to make sure that an older version of Java is not installed?

Thanks
Tom
860-702-6935


      
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