Re: 3.8 GUI documentation tab: click link freezes Octave

[Torsten]

On 03.03.2014 20:46, Colin Beckingham wrote:
> I'm running on openSUSE 12.3 with Octave from the Science repo. All
> seems to be well, except that if I try to click any link in the GUI
> Documentation window, Octave freezes up without any feedback. Force quit
> is ok and Octave restarts ok. The regular documentation approach from
> the command window is fine.
> 
> Just wondering if I am missing a required package, or is this one of the
> areas which will start working in 3.8.1?
> 
> Right now I just run the GUI with no Documentation window, not a
> problem.

The problem is caused by a conflict between octave's SIGCHLD handler and
the qt process handling (see https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?38305, and
comment #41 for the problem with the zipped info files). My knowledge on
signal handling is too limited to provide a solution to this problem.

As Dieter already has mentioned, a workaround is to unzip the info files.

Torsten