Re: Octave 3.4.0 crashes silently on the latest cygwin 1.7.8

[George Barrick]

Re: Octave 3.4.0 crashes silently on the latest cygwin 1.7.8

                             2011.03.28.15:21:43 UT

Hello octave users,

    Like Pertti, I've been using octave in the
cygwin environment, and have encountered the same
silent error/crash.  I read Marco's comment that
this can be attributed to a problem with the
libgfortran3, and I have attempted to (temporarily)
revert to libgfortran-4.3.4-3.

    My own problem arises from the cygwin installer:

          libgfortran3 has corrupt local copy.

I have gone into the install directory tree where
the .gz files corresponding to the cygwin packages
are located (different from where my local cygwin
is actually installed).  I deleted _only_ the two
copies:

          libgfortran3-4.3.4-4.gz,
          libgfortran3-4.3.4-3.gz,

but still get the 'corrupt local copy' message.
Can someone point me to some useful documentation
surrounding the cygwin installer?  I know that this
is (officially) a cygwin issue, and I should be
asking this question on that forum, but with this
post, I want to grab the attention of folks with
direct, relevant experience.  Clearly I'm needing
also to throw out a particular database file that
keeps track of installed/un-installed packages in
the cygwin environment, but I'm not certain which
one.

    Also, if anyone has quick-fix instructions
along the lines of: "Hey George, just chuck the
whole tree of files from the install directory!",
then I'm certain also that I can follow some
moderate degree of detail in the instructions.

Thanks all (especially Marco),

George                   address@hidden