AW: GNU Octave does not start Win7

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Christian.Maier2 <Christian.Maier2
 To: tmacchant
> Cc: address@hidden
> Date: 2017/6/19, Mon 18:22
> Subject: AW: AW: GNU Octave does not start Win7
> 
> Hello Tatsuro,
> 
> the GUI starts also, but closes immediately. 
> But the start needs a longer time as I start it from the octave folder 
> without 
> bin.
> 
> Best wishes 
> Christian
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Tatsuro MATSUOKA [mailto:address@hidden 
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 15. Juni 2017 02:40
> An: Maier Christian
> Cc: address@hidden
> Betreff: Re: AW: GNU Octave does not start Win7
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> 
>>  From: "Christian.Maier
>>  To: tmacchant
>>  Cc: 
>>  Date: 2017/6/14, Wed 13:49
>>  Subject: AW: GNU Octave does not start Win7
>> 
>> G ood morning Tatsuro,
>> 
>>  thanks a lot for your fast response.
>>  I tried the command and it returns:
>> 
>>  "
>>  D:\>cd octave
>> 
>>  D:\octave>cd bin
>> 
>>  D:\octave\bin>octave-cli
>>  GNU Octave, version 4.2.1
>>  Copyright (C) 2017 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-w64-mingw32".
>> 
>>  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/get-involved.html 
>> 
>>  Read http://www.octave.org/bugs.html to learn how to submit bug reports.
>>  For information about changes from previous versions, type 'news'.
>> 
>>  octave:1>
>>  "
>> 
>>  Best wishes
>>  Christian
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>  -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>>  Von: Tatsuro MATSUOKA [mailto:address@hidden
>>  Gesendet: Mittwoch, 14. Juni 2017 00:48
>>  An: Maier Christian; address@hidden
>>  Betreff: Re: GNU Octave does not start Win7
>> 
>>  ----- Original Message -----
>>>  From: "Christian.Maier2
>>>  To: address@hidden
>>>  Date: 2017/6/13, Tue 21:50
>>>  Subject: GNU Octave does not start Win7
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>  Dearladies and gentlemen,
>>>   
>>>  unfortunatelythe Octave start is interrupting. Suddenly I wasn’t able 
>>>  to
>>  start Octave GUI. When I start the GUI it closes suddenly after 
>>  displaying the GUI for about half a second without any warnings. 
>>  Before this problem occur I used Octave several weeks. I have used the 
> Octave V4.2.1 without installer.
>>  After the problem occurs, I tested a new download and your installer, 
>>  but without success.
>>>   
>>>  I hope you can help me.
>>>  Thanks a lot.
>>>   
>>>  Best wishes and kind regards
>>>  Christian Maier
>> 
>> 
>>  There have been some reports that octave on windows have hanged at startup.
>>  Unfortunately there seems to be no general solutions to solve the issue.
>> 
>>  Please try:
>>  From command prompt on windows 7, type
>> 
>>>   D:\Octave\bin\octave-cli
>> 
>>  and report result.
>> 
>>  Tatsuro
> 
> 
> 
> Please keep CCing to the help-octave ML.
> 
>>  octave:1>
> 
> 
> You could see the octave prompt and can use cli mode octave.
> 
> What happen you try the below
> 
> D:\octave\bin>octave
> 
> Can you see octave GUI or interruption of octave start-up?
> 
> Tatsuro 



Please try delete "C:\Users\<your user name>\.config\qt-settings".

"C:\Users\<your user name>" depends your windows setting.


You can confirm it by typing "set" on command prompt and
see values of environmental variables HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH.

Tatsuro