octave (2.1.50/2.1.57) hang during startup

[q127038]

Hi,

I gave 2.1.57 a try on my ia32-redhat7-3 linux box (gcc 3.2.2).
Unfortunately it did not start. 
It simply hang at very beginning:
- no prompt no nothing
- I could kill it with <ctrl-c>

This did not occur with 2.1.44

Running it with gdb did not give any more information:
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> gdb /share/sdmfs1/GNU/RedHat-7.3/usr/local/bin/octave
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This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux"...
(gdb) run
Starting program:
/net/sdmfs1/fs2/share/sdmfs1/GNU/RedHat-7.1/usr/local/bin/octave-2.1.50
-------------------- here he stays for ever
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with top I get: 
PID   USER      PRI  NI SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
23957 q127038   15   0  3076 3072  2260 D     3.9  0.0   0:17
octave-2.1.50
-------------------------------------------------------------------
obviously he is not really busy :-(


? Did anyone have similar problems ?
? Can I force some debugging output ?

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