Re: Octave 3.4.0 crashes silently on the latest cygwin 1.7.8

[marco atzeri]

On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 5:24 PM, George Barrick  wrote:
>
> 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.

not clear what you mean.

>
> 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,

the setup files stay in the "Local Package directory" tree and they should be:

libgfortran3-4.3.4-4.tar.bz2
libgfortran3-4.3.4-3.tar.bz2

Please check setup.log for any error message.

>
> 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.

http://cygwin.com/docs.html

>
>    Also, if anyone has quick-fix instructions
> along the lines of: "Hey George, just chuck the
> whole tree of files from the install directory!",

that also works. Assuming that you means the "Local Package directory"
I suggest just to move it away, as safe backup ;-)

> then I'm certain also that I can follow some
> moderate degree of detail in the instructions.
>
> Thanks all (especially Marco),
>
> George