No octave prompt (no error messages)

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

Albert Vos wrote:
>> On 07 December 2006 14:22, Tony Richardson wrote:
>>
>>> Albert Vos <vos_albert <at> hotmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> at home and at work I have the same problem with octave under 
>>>> cygwin. In
>>>> both cases I octave just quits without giving any output, no prompt, no
>>>> error messages. One computer runs on win2000 Sp4 on which I'm no
>>>> administrator and the other runs on winXp Sp2 on which I have all 
>>>> rights.
>>>
>>> You might try starting octave using "octave -V" or "octave -x" (or 
>>> both) to
>>> determine if it is getting hung in one of the startup scripts.
>>> Otherwise follow the problem reporting guidelines ...
>>>
>>> Tony Richardson
> 
>> Also try "cygcheck -c octave", which verifies the package is intact.  If
>> that doesn't show anything, try "cygcheck /bin/octave.exe" which shows 
>> all the
>> DLLs that octave depends on, and make sure they're all installed: maybe
>> there's a missed dependency in the setup.ini lines.
> 
> octave -V, octave -x, octave -V -x   all output nothing
> 
>> cygcheck -c octave
> Cygwin Package Information
> Package              Version        Status
> octave               2.1.73-1       OK
> 
>> cygcheck /bin/octave.exe
> M:/cygwin/bin/octave.exe
> 
> I attached the cygcheck.out file, as requested. It was made on the 
> win2000 computer with rxvt as terminal, but I have the same problem with 
> cmd as terminal.


You mean 'cmd.exe' or 'bash' in 'cmd.exe'?  If the latter, remove 'tty'
from your CYGWIN environment variable and try again.  See:

<http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html>


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