RE: Octave does not start

[David Remans]

Hi Nicholas,

 

Yes I did try to reinstall 6.3.0 a few times, but that did not solve the issue.

I did also manually delete files from the userprofile*\AppData\Roaming. Before installing to C:\Temp but that did not work out.

 

When I installed 6.3.1 I did not manually delete the files in userprofile*\AppData\Roaming before running the installer, but it worked out OK, so from the sound of it I think we can assume it is a similar issue as you describe below.

 

Best Regards,

David

 

 

 

 

From: Nicholas Jankowski <jankowski.nicholas@gmail.com>
Sent: woensdag 22 september 2021 18:30
To: David Remans <D.Remans@tradinco.com>
Cc: Markus Mützel <markus.muetzel@gmx.de>; help@octave.org
Subject: Re: Octave does not start

 

On Wed, Sep 22, 2021 at 9:49 AM David Remans <D.Remans@tradinco.com> wrote:

Problem solved, by installing the latest 6.3.1 build
Thanks a lot for your help

 

ok great.  thanks for following up.  in your offline message (please always keep the help list in the loop) you mentioned testing the vbs execution using a dummy script, so good you ruled that out.

 

What's left:  maybe corrupt GUI configuration files preventing the GUI from opening, which may have been cleared/corrected by the reinstallation.  Safe to assume you had tried reinstallation of 6.3.0 without success? Reinstall may leave old config files, usually stored in *userprofile*\AppData\Roaming.  I've had success clearing that folder when the gui wouldn't open. 

 

We also recently had another long troubleshooting discussion with someone who had a similar issue where a particular version of Octave wouldn't open on his system, related to an underlying component of the windows build. I'm not sure we ever locked down what created the specific conflict on this person's machine, but you can see the details here: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?61017

In that case, installing a 6.3.1 version also enabled running the GUI. Since your case also improved here, it may be the same issue.