[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #51922] GUI freezing at startup or Signal 11

[Dan Sebald]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51922>

                 Summary: GUI freezing at startup or Signal 11
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: sebald
            Submitted on: Sat 02 Sep 2017 07:35:30 PM UTC
                Category: GUI
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Segfault, Bus Error, etc.
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: 
        Originator Email: 
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: dev
        Operating System: GNU/Linux

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Details:

I've had the GUI freeze at startup, in what looks like a timing issue (or
maybe state at previous exit issue).  I'm just noting that it is version

changeset:   23994:8785b3717140
date:        Fri Sep 01 15:35:17 2017 -0700

which doesn't mean that changeset is the source of error, just a timestamp in
case someone else sees this same issue to help pin down when it may have
started.

The behavior is that I launched the GUI, indirectly via the build as follows:


sebald@ ~/gardening/white_mold_on_soil $
/usr/local/src/octave/octave/build1/run-octave
sebald@ ~/gardening/white_mold_on_soil $
/usr/local/src/octave/octave/build1/run-octave
octave exited with signal 9
sebald@ ~/gardening/white_mold_on_soil $
/usr/local/src/octave/octave/build1/run-octave
sebald@ ~/gardening/white_mold_on_soil $
/usr/local/src/octave/octave/build1/run-octave
sebald@ ~/gardening/white_mold_on_soil $
/usr/local/src/octave/octave/build1/run-octave
octave exited with signal 11
sebald@ ~/gardening/white_mold_on_soil $ /usr/local/src/octave/octave/


I believe where it indicates "signal 9" is that upon launch the System/GTK
window outline appeared in which the graphics memory had the background image
(the common scenario in which the screen of video memory is captured and
shifted a half dozen pixels) but otherwise was suspended waiting for Octave
GUI to fill in the framework windows, but it never happened.  So I forced the
application to quit via the GTK panel that holds the application icons.  That
is probably when the "octave exited with signal 9" appeared, i.e., bad exit.

Where the "signal 11" is indicated, Octave GUI just exited immediately without
any appearance of GTK window area.




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