Re: Issues with plot

[Marco Atzeri]

On 19/06/2014 04:43, Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: awarmwalrus
> > To: help-octave
> > Cc:
> > Date: 2014/6/19, Thu 06:39
> > Subject: Issues with plot
> >
> > When I try to use plot in octave, I get the following output:

with a specific command or just a generic

  x=1:10;
  plot(x,x)

?

> > "warning: could not match any font: *-normal-normal-10
> > warning: ft_render: unable to load appropriate font
> > ... (repeated roughly 100 times)
> > warning: could not match any font: *-normal-normal-10
> > warning: ft_render: unable to load appropriate font
> > panic: Aborted -- stopping myself...
> > attempting to save variables to 'octave-workspace'...
> > save to 'octave-workspace' complete
> > Aborted (core dumped)"
> >
> > Then it quits octave and returns me back to the terminal.
> > I am using Cygwin on a Windows 8 system.
> > I am using octave 3.8.1.
> > It doesn't seem to be that I'm missing any fonts because I do have
> > etc/fonts.conf where it should be.

the file should be /etc/fonts/fonts.conf

the output of fc-list will show you all installed and
recognized fonts

> > But honestly I have no clue and it
> > doesn't seem like anybody else is having this specific problem. Most other
> > people who received the double warnings seemed to have additional errors and
> > path configuration errors that provided some information. Any help is
> > greatly appreciated, and, though I have done a lot of research already, I
> > hope that this hasn't already been brought up!
>
>
> Seem to be a Cygwin font configuration issue around gnuplot.
> I recommend you to post the issue to the Cygwin ML but not here.
>
> Tatsuro

additional suggestion to Tatsuro one:

follow  https://cygwin.com/problems.html

specially the
"Run cygcheck -s -v -r > cygcheck.out and include that file as an 
attachment in your report. Please do not compress or otherwise encode 
the output. Just attach it as a straight text file so that it can be 
easily viewed. "


Regards
Marco