Re: Octave 4.0.0 freezes during start on win7

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

----- Original Message -----

> From: inor0627 
> To: help-octave
> Cc: 
> Date: 2015/6/10, Wed 15:26
> Subject: Re: Octave 4.0.0 freezes during start on win7
> 
> inor0627 wrote
>>  Hello Tatsuro, Hello rocketsound
>> 
>>  I tried the following: 
>>  1 - redownloading and unzipping to c:\octave
>>  2 - running 'cscript.exe octave.vbs' from terminal --> nothing 
> (visible)
>>  happens at all
>>  3 - running 'octave.bat' --> freezes as described
>>  4 - running 'octave.bat' in windows fail safe mode --> it works!
>> 
>>  So obviously some windows service is obstructing octave in normal mode.
>>  Any idea which one might be the culprit?
>> 
>>  Regards,
>>  Ingo
> 
> Additional information: When running octave 3.8.2 and calling any plot
> command, windows is falling back to some basic graphics mode (non-aero
> design). So could it be a graphics issue?
> 
> Ingo
> 



>> So could it be a graphics issue?

It could be.

From cmd shell, try
 cd <your octave binaries located>
 octave --no-gui-libs

This disables qt related things. 
Octave starts up in cli mode and qt graphics_toolkit is not available.

If you can start up octave in the above, perhaps your OpenGL graphics might 
have problems.

Tatsuro