Re: Octave Crashes or Sudden Exits

[Dmitri A. Sergatskov]

On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 5:21 PM Thomas D. Dean <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> I am getting some octave crashes or sudden exits. 2 or 3 times per day.
>
> Octave 6.0.0 built from sources.
> octave:2> [V,D]=version()
> V = 6.0.0
> D = 2019-02-23
>
>  > ls -l `which octave`
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Aug  9 15:06 /usr/local/bin/octave -> octave-6.0.0
>
> Ubuntu 18.04, 5.0.0-23-generic kernel.
>
> I am running octave in an xterm with:
> /usr/bin/xterm -T Octave -en UTF-8 -j -sk -sb -sl 1000 -fn 9x15 -bc \
>        -bg white -fg black -geometry 80x55 -e octave --no-gui &
>
> Octave just exits.  I hesitate to call it a crash because there is
> nothing in dmesg and nothing in syslog, etc.
>
> I do not think any specific action consistently causes the exit.
>
> Any ideas on how to possible track this?

Works for me (on Fedora).
Did you check journalctl?

Try running "bc" instead of octave.

Try running without "&"

Try to start octave inside  xterm manually.

>
> Tom Dean
>

Dmitri.
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