Re: cannot plot with octave 3.4.0 and windows 7

[marco atzeri]

On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 11:17 PM, pavlo72  wrote:
> Thank you for the tip Marco. I downgraded to the previous version of cygwin
> (uname -a produces:
> CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 upsilon 1.7.8(0.236/5/3) 2011-03-01 09:36 i686 Cygwin )
>
> I also had to revert to the previous version of gnuplot and xterm and I was
> able
> to display the plot on the screen. I got again an error message again
> though, not sure
> how it affects the processing:
>
>  0 [main] octave-3.4.0 2552 exception::handle: Exception:
> STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION
>    992 [main] octave-3.4.0 2552 open_stackdumpfile: Dumping stack trace to
> octave-3.4.0.exe.stackdump
>      0 [main] octave-3.4.0 3524 exception::handle: Exception:
> STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION
>    822 [main] octave-3.4.0 3524 open_stackdumpfile: Dumping stack trace to
> octave-3.4.0.exe.stackdump
>      0 [main] octave-3.4.0 796 exception::handle: Exception:
> STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION
>    885 [main] octave-3.4.0 796 open_stackdumpfile: Dumping stack trace to
> octave-3.4.0.exe.stackdump
>
> I was not able to display a second plot and the second time I ran cygwin it
> did not work. I had to
> remove a bunch of coredump files before I was able to display the plot
> again.
>
> Not sure if this solution is stable enough for heavy processing....
>
> Christina

unfortunately there is a more general problem with cygwin and W7-64 bit.
We are still looking for a stable solution , not only for octave.

Marco