Re: Fwd: x11, octave, cygwin

[marco atzeri]

On 5/13/2012 2:47 AM, Simon Schröder wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I hope you can help me.
> I am using cygwin on a windows 7 OS.
> after $ startx
> I start octave in the x-window, load some data and try to plot them, but
> all I get is a bunch of error messages (see below).
> I have no idea how to deal with it, so I'm hoping for your help.
> Making a plot in the cygwin command window without the startx order
> works, but is of course not of sufficient quality.
>
> Thank you.
> Simon Schröder
>
> $ octave
[cut]
> octave:1> y=load('STD');
> octave:2> plot(y)
> 5 [main] octave-3.6.1 1164 child_info_fork::abort: unable to
> remap find.oct to same address as parent (00800000) - try running rebaseall
> error: popen2: process creation failed -- Resource temporarily unavailable
> error: called from:
> error:
> /usr/share/octave/3.6.1/m/plot/private/__gnuplot_open_stream__.m at line
> 30, column 44
> error: /usr/share/octave/3.6.1/m/plot/__gnuplot_drawnow__.m at line
> 72, column 19
> octave:3>

as the error say "try running rebaseall"

see
http://cygwin.com/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.fixing-fork-failures

Recent cygwin versions have a rebase system implemented on the setup,
that include also the "oct" files, wich version are you running ?

$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 1.7.15(0.260/5/3) 2012-05-09 10:25 i686 Cygwin

Regards
Marco