[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #49748] pkg and edit fail with "unable to start subprocess"

[Lachlan Andrew]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?49748>

                 Summary: pkg and edit fail with "unable to start subprocess"
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: lachlan
            Submitted on: Fri 02 Dec 2016 04:12:00 AM GMT
                Category: Interpreter
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Incorrect Result
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: 
        Originator Email: 
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: dev
        Operating System: GNU/Linux

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Details:

With development version 1d242ae72240, I can't install packages or edit core
command scripts.  Both complain "unable to start subprocess".

This is on an Ubuntu 16.04 VM on a Windows 10 host.  (This is a new install of
Octave, and so may by because I don't have some config info.)


>> pkg install -forge statistics
warning: load_path: scripts: No such file or directory
system: unable to start subprocess for 'gzip -d -c
"/media/sf_Lachlan/Dropbox/rsrch/power/UnitedEnergy/code/statistics-1.3.0.tar.gz"
| tar xf - 2>&1'
error: called from
    unpack at line 245 column 20
    untar at line 47 column 5
    install at line 81 column 9
    pkg at line 394 column 9
>> which pkg
'pkg' is a function from the file /usr/local/share/octave/4.3.0+/m/pkg/pkg.m
>> edit pkg
error: system: unable to start subprocess for 'cp -r
"/usr/local/share/octave/4.3.0+/m/pkg/pkg.m" "/home/lachlan/octave/pkg.m"'
error: called from
    copyfile at line 123 column 14
    edit at line 321 column 23
stopped in /usr/local/share/octave/4.3.0+/m/miscellaneous/copyfile.m at line
123
123:     [err, msg] = system (sprintf ('%s %s"%s"', cmd, p1, p2));





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