Re: Octave install and initial program.

[Juan Pablo Carbajal]

On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 3:48 PM, Roger Moore
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>       I have just install Octave onto my Laptop "sudo yum install octave",
> which was successful. So, now I have >octave -v = GNU Octave 3.8.2
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> I have download some ecg data and created a single column file with the
> data, out.txt.
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> I can load it.
>> load "out.txt";
>>
>>x=out(1:1000,1);
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>>x
> x =
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> -0.06000
> -0.06500 etc ...
>
>>plot(x);
> Panic: Segmentation fault -- Stopping myself...
> attempting to save variables to 'octave-workspace'...
> save to 'octave-workspace' complete
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> [ ]$
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> The plot brings up a GUI, but crashes soon after.
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> Any ideas?
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> Regards,
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> Roger Moore.
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No idea what is causing this, but it would help if you tell us:
- the output of graphics_toolkit
- your OS (uname -r)

If you have gnuplot installed in your OS, you can try

close all;
graphics_toolkit gnuplot

and then attempt to plot again.