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Re: crashes with octave3.2 when $HOME/.octave_hist is not writable
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Thomas Weber |
Subject: |
Re: crashes with octave3.2 when $HOME/.octave_hist is not writable |
Date: |
Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:14:23 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) |
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 12:03:52AM -0400, John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 26-Oct-2009, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:
>
> | On Sun, 2009-10-25 at 18:32 -0400, John W. Eaton wrote:
> | > On 25-Oct-2009, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:
> | >
> | > | To reproduce do e.g:
> | > |
> | > | $ export HOME=/
> | > | $ echo version | octave
> | [...]
> | > You are getting this message when Octave tries to write the history
> | > file and it fails because of permission problems. I already fixed the
> | > problem the development sources. Now I see this:
> |
> | Thanks for fixing the problem.
> |
> | > $ HOME=/ /usr/local/octave/devel/bin/octave
> | > GNU Octave, version 3.3.50+
> | > Copyright (C) 2009 John W. Eaton and others.
> | > This is free software; see the source code for copying conditions.
> | > There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or
> | > FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. For details, type `warranty'.
> | >
> | > Octave was configured for "x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu".
> | >
> | > 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 <address@hidden> (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'.
> | >
> | > octave:1> quit
> | >
> | > error: Permission denied
> | > error: ignoring octave_execution_exception while preparing to exit
> |
> | Will octave3.2 return 0 back to the shell (as did 3.0?)
> |
> | $ ( ( echo version | octave3.0 >/dev/null) ; echo $? )
> | error: Permission denied
> | 0
>
> Yes.
Thanks for taking care. Do you by any chance remember the changeset or
which file to look at? I glanced over the last 100 Mercurial changeset,
but saw nothing obvious.
Thomas