Re: Bug when running Octave 4.02 under emulation on OS X 10.11.5.

[edmund ronald]

Tatsuro-san, 

The VM loads Ubuntu Trusty Server (14.04), which I believe is a LTS. Below is the install script., and an Octave query for the graphics toolkit.

As this is an automatic install, all VMs should install identically.  I suspect a NEW BUG OF SOME MAC SOFTWARE Vagrant or XQuartz- as James installs on his 10.11.5 and his plot() hangs, while I did a new install on my  10.10.5 OS X and on my machine plot() works. Also, this is the first user report I have had for some time of a VM issue - mostly the VM just works. You will have noticed that I have not exactly been very active on the lists, even though my knowledge is close to zero :)

If you can give James some diagnostic instructions, he cancd to the Oct folder, type "vagrant ssh", and ssh into the running VM, and run anything you want from the command line - I don't have access to his computer. 

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#!/bin/bash

# This file will be run as root. It installs Octave for Ubuntu. 

# add octave repository

add-apt-repository ppa:octave/stable

# rebuild repository list 

apt-get update

# install -y octave 

apt install -y texinfo

apt install -y gnuplot

apt install -y octave

apt install -y liboctave-dev

apt install -y octave-info

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On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 7:43 AM, Tatsuro MATSUOKA <address@hidden> wrote:

----- Original Message -----
>From: edmund ronald 
>To: Octave Help ; James F  
>Date: 2016/7/28, Thu 10:39
>Subject: Bug when running Octave 4.02 under emulation on OS X 10.11.5.
>
>
>Hi guys, I have a user who is using my Vagrant VM on MacBook Pro with OS X 10.11.5.  and the plot command is causing his Octave to hang.
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> My applet downloads 4.02 and runs as it is supposed to, and he gets the Octave GUI so the emulator is running well, Octave is up and talking to X on the Mac host, and then apparently as soon as he calls plot() ...
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>
>Any ideas? Maybe some graphics components were forgotten in the "stable" 4.02 binary in the Ubuntu repository? I got him to do the obvious but it doesn't help:
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>I've installed the latest XQuartz and executed the command in Octave:
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>setenv("GNUTERM", "X11")
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>followed by
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>y=1:5
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>(and of course Octave displays "1 2 3 4 5" on a new line)
>and then I type
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>plot(y)
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>As soon as I press the return key after the closing parenthesis of plot(y), the entire Octave window disappears.  
>I restarted Octave and typed the instruction setenv("GNUTERM", "qt")
>and the result is the same, the Octave window immediately disappears.
>


I am not a mac user and have no experience to use VM  so that I cannot really help you.
However, I will tell you that the below points.

1. You seem to run Ubuntu on VM. What version of Ubuntu do you use? 16.04?
2. You did not write about graphics_toolkit.
 (1) Did you try
     graphics_toolkit qt
      or  
     graphics_toolkit fltk?

 (2) If you use gnuplot graphics_toolkit, you probably use gnuplot on Ubuntu.
     What version of gnuplot do you use ?

Tatsuro

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