Re: cannot plot with octave 3.4.0 and windows 7

[marco atzeri]

On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 3:24 AM, pavlo72  wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have installed octave 3.4.0, and the latest gnuplot and X11 through cygwin
> on windows 7.
> I execute startxwin and through it octave. When I try to "plot(1:10,1:10)",
> I get errors
> of the following form:
>
> 0 [main] octave-3.4.0 4592 exception::handle: Exception:
> STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION
>    923 [main] octave-3.4.0 4592 open_stackdumpfile: Dumping stack trace to
> octave-3.4.0.exe.stackdump
>
> 0 [main] gnuplot 240 exception::handle: Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION
>   1029 [main] gnuplot 240 open_stackdumpfile: Dumping stack trace to
> gnuplot.exe.stackdump
>
>
> I have no problem plotting with gnuplot.
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
> Christina
>

Hi Christina,

try to downgrade cygwin from 1.7.9-1 to 1.7.8-1.
Cygwin 1.7.9 broke something that I have not yet identified.

This workaround works on XP but I am not sure on W7.
Please let me know if works and the output of "uname -a"


Marco