Re: Octave 3.4.0 crashes silently on the latest cygwin 1.7.8

[marco atzeri]

On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 7:20 AM, Pertti Paakkonen  wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I updated my cygwin installation to the latest release 1.7.8-1 in my Windows
> Vista and found that latest octave 3.4.0 did not run. Octave reported
> various error messages when trying to start it. I already rebased the system
> without help (well, the error messages disappeared). I also did a clean
> cygwin installation and installed octave but still the same behaviour. I
> also tested the cygwin upgrade on my laptop W7 with exactly the same
> problems. Octave does not run in xterm nor in text console.
>
> Currently octave crashes silently. It does not report any error messages nor
> produce any core dump files. --debug nor --verbose options do not produce
> any output. cygcheck does not report any missing libraries or files (see
> below). Testing the previous available octave release 3.2.4-3 for cygwin
> does the same.
>
> How can I track where the problem may be? This looks like cygwin problem but
> I am not sure. Anybody have experience on upgrading their cygwin recently?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Pertti
>

Hi Pertti,

Specific cygwin question should go to the cygwin-help mailing list.

A recent gcc upgrade on top of a cygwin upgrade caused the problem.
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-03/msg00682.html

As workaround, downgrade libgfortran3 from version 4.3.4-4 to 4.3.4-3.

regards.